The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-05
CALLS FOR A
STRUGGLE ON
|NJUNCTIONS
Garment Union Says
Charges Framed Up
Especial 70 The Daily worksr)

Especial 70 The Daily Worksr)
NEW YORK CITY, Oct. IA de-
NAL of all the fundamental and eIe-
mentary rights which the law has
heretofore accorded to organized la
Dor in its struggles for economic bet
terment." This was the characterize
ton made by Louis Lyman, chairman
of the cloakmakers' General Strike
Committee, Of Supreme Court Justice
Inaraham's decision to continue the in
Junction against striking eIoakmakers
pleketine Industrial council shops.
The union charged that the claims
of violence against the union are
founded on "unjustifable arrests,
wantonly and deliberately caused by
the employers themselves" These
charges Of violence we're the basis for
the injunctior order.
Will Continue PIcketlng.
Declaring that the strike cannot be
settled by a court order, Hyman
declared the workers. will continue
their struggle for an opportunity to
work and to live" An immediate ap.
peal from Ingraham's decision will be
made, it is announced. The statement
follows:
1--WE are deeply disappointed by the
decision Of Judge Ingraham continu-
ing the preliminary injunction by
Judge Guy. The injunction is unusual
ly sweeping and drastic II prohibits
all picketing of industrial council
shops, even If such picketing be con-
Quoted In a perfectly orderly and
law-abiding manner and goes so far as
to enjoin peaceful appeals to would-be
strikebreakers. AS we see 1t the
summary court order is a denial of all
the fundamental and elementary
rights which the law has heretofore
accorded to organized labor in its
struggles for economic betterment.
"The charge that our strike has
been characterized by systematic acts
of violence is entirely founded. There
has hardly been a single instance Of
iawlessness committed by our men,
bers on the picket line. From the first
day Of the strike, our employers have
made it daily practice to cause ar
rests of hundreds of peaceful pickets
and even disinterested bystanders, on
the vague charge Of 'disorderly con-
duct These men have often been dis
charged by police magistrates who
have found no ground for their ar
rests; in other cases fines have been
imposed on them wholesalely and in
discriminatory. 1t was on these I'M
iustifable arrests, wantonly and de-
liberately caused by the employers
themselves, that the charge OF vio-
lence is mainly founded.
"The extraordinary injunction
against our union will serve to arouse
organized labor everywhere to the
critical and dangerous situation in
which It is being placed by the ever
extending use of injunctions IN labor
disputes.
VIII Appeal From Order.
"As far as the striking cloak makers
are concerned, their vital differences
with their employers cannot and will
not be settled by court order. They
will continue their struggle for an op-
portunity to work and to live, with
greater faith In their cause and
greater determination to win than
ever.
Counsel for the union has been In
structed to take an immediate appeal
from the order of Justice Ingraham."
Efforts by counsel for the manufac-
turers' association to introduce the
Injunction against the union in these
court cases were prevented
by Magistrate Gordon, who insisted
alleged violation OF the Injunction or
der came properly before the supreme
court
The out-of-town committee OF the
union announced yesterday the stop
page Of a plant being operated at
Reading. Pa. by s. and s. Goldberg.