The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-15
FOUR GARMENT
STRIKE PICKETS
LEAVE PRISON
Parade Thru the Mar
ket Street District
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committee or uIIeen the CnlcaBO Oh
fcials refused to aid them in defying
the injunction. When wholesale viola
ton Of injunctions was urged by
Freda Reicher, John Fitzpatrick, pre-
sident Of the Chicago Federation Of
Labor, beloved that if they did that
mot only the state troops, not only
the national guard but the federal
troops would be called in and the pick
cts blown off the streets"
Refuse To Help Piekets.
Tho the piekets pointed out that the
inactive policy OF the Chicago Fedora,
ton Of Labor officials was aiding the
bosses and would lead to the injunc-
tion raising havoc with the strike and
breaking the strike these officials re-
fused to aid the strikers. FredR brot
out that because Of the inactivity Of
thsse officials in arousing the labor
movement OF the city TO a realization
Of what was going on the strike pick
saM were forced TO go to jail.
She also brought out that tho4every
effort was made 70 get Fitzpatrick and
olander to speak at the protest meet
ing In the Temple Hall demanding the
release of the strike pickets they
hluntly refused TO do so.
why doesn't John Fitzpatrick or
Edward NockeIs Of the Chicago Fed
grafton of Labor do somethtngf Why
doesn't John Walker and Victor Olan-
der Of the Illinois Federation of Labor
% 'eomethifngg Why don't they want
70 carry on fightr
"May Emharrass Small"
1T "a possibly as 'Schengel,' Mrs.
Nfeanpr Sadlowski said In the Jail.
They fear to embarraSs the Lon Small
mAchine."
1T Is true they Jailed our bodies but
n is also true they never touched our
spirits. We are stronger today in
spirit than we ever were. We are
proud to be pioneers IN iabor's fight
against injunCtions."
VIII Continue Fight.
There is not an injunction estab-
lished as yet, not a judge elected as
yet and not a rule made as yet that
can keep us girls back from fighting
for better conditions" declared Flor
ence Corn, who followed Freda
Reicher.
No Jail To Stop Her.
Evelyn Dornheld expressed her de-
termination to carry on the fight that
she had begun for better conditions
and that in this fight no jail would
stop her.
Oscar Simons spoke in Jewish. He
pointed out that tho conditions in the
jail we're far from what they expected
their ideals for a better society had
kept them in good spirit and strength
ened their determination to carry on
their struggle.
Solidarity.
Yetta Hornsta:n, who was released
few days previously, brought out the
wonderful spirit that prevailed among
the Jailed pickets and which even
spread to the other girls imprisoned
in the jail. She told how a number
of these other girls had declared that
since the strikers had come into the
Jail the jailers were serving better
food.
Jail Food-Rotten.
"The food was so rotten in the jail"
declared Yetta Hornstein that If 1t
wasn't FOR the meals furnished by the
union we would not be as healthy as
we are"
Everyone of US have come out
with a better spirit to fight iniunctions
than before. The girls viii go to jail
in spite CT tho fact that they know jail
awaits them"
J. L. Davidson, organizer for the Chi
cage joint board of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union,
pointed out that tho the Chicago Fed
GRAFTON of Labor and the Illinois Fed
GRAFTON of Labor officials refused to
fight to release tho jailed garment
strike pickets the joint board would
carry on It's fight.
To Hold Mass Meeting.
1--WE will hold a mass meeting to
demand the release of these prisoners.
II the Chicago Federation OF Labor
and the Illinois Federation OF Labor
officials vast to speak they can. II
they don't, Wen get those to speak
that want to fight injunctions and we
will fight injunctions despite their
refusal to fight them"
Lillian Herstein of the Chicago
Teachers Federation in a short talk
complimented the girls on their fight
ing spirit and bitterly raped the
"tired radicals" as being a greater
danger to the wor,.gs than the bosses.
She assailed those who had grown
"old" in spirit and sought to block
every progressive move whether II
was a strike, the defying Of an injunc-
tion, the formation Of an independent
political party Of labor. by their de
featist" theorizing 1t can't be done.
"The injunction is a device that
allows an upstart like Denny Sullivan
TO condemn to Jail any man without
a trial" declared Miss Herstein. IL see
In your fight against injunctions a