The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29
MEETING URGES
LABOR WAR ON
INJUNCTION EVIL
Militant Action Needed
to Free Chicago Girls
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captain, was instructed to collect
votes for the republican Injunction
Judge" Denis E. Sullivan and that he
followed the instructions and gather
ed together $50 votes for Sullivan,
who has now issued an injunction
against the union in a strike in which
this precinct captain is participating.
1.-THE workers must get together and
put in men that will serve the work
ing class and not the BOSSES" declared
Uhlmann.
Must Fight Iniunetions.
"The entire labor movement should
fight injunctions. 1t is the job of the
Illinois Federation of Labor, the Chi
cago Federation Of Labor to get be-
hind this present campaign and put it
over with all their power
IF every organization that had an
injunction issued against 1t would get
together and protest this hall would
not hold them. We would fill not only
this hall, but also the Coliseum. Then
they would not be SO free with in-
functions"
Cheer Released PIokets.
Seven of the released garment strike
pickets sat on the platform with the
speakers. These seven pickets elected
three of their number to speak. The
speakers for these pickets who were
released, because they had served
their sentences were: Sara Schneider,
Fannie Goldberg and Minnie Seidel.
Their expressions of loyalty to the
union and their determination to defy
injunctions If used in future strikes,
were greeted with thunderous APP
plause and cheers.
Telegram From Plekets.
A telegram from the garment strike
pickets in Cook County was read amid
great applause. The meeting decided
to send a telegram expressing its sym.
pathy and solidarity with those that
are still in Jail.
Among the prisoners that sent the
message urging the entire Chicago la
Dor movement to fight the use of in.
functions in labor disputes are: Mrs.
Eleanor Sadlowski, mother of a 10
year old boy and Mrs. Victoria Ciesla.
kiewicz, mother Of 4 children. Mrs.
Cieslakiewicz's 15-year old daughter
is a cripple and needs her mothers
care continually.
jail Better Than seab Shops.
Mrs. Victoria Cieslakiewicz on enter
ing Jail declared, II would rather go
to Jail than go to work in scab
shop" Freda Reicher, who is the rep
resentative of the prisoners, returned
to Chicago from a tubercular sanitar-
ium in Colorado to serve her sentence.
Ida Rothstein, head of the Women's
Department of the Chicago joint board
of the international Ladies' Garment
Workers Union, /. L. Davidson, Or
ganizer of the joint board, and J. Lee
vine, manager Of the joint board, point
ed out the necessity for the entire
Chicago labor movement to get behind
the drive to free the jailed pickets and
to fight the issuance of injunctions.
Organization Drive.
''The attempt of the bosses to kill
llC campaign ny AublbI~
ing on the pickets going to jail has
failed. Many non-union workers have
not only joined the union, but they
have declared their willingness to aid
in the organization drive and to go to
Jail if necessary for organizing the in
dustry," declared Davidson.
A telegram from Professor Robert
Morss Lovett of the University of Chi
cago, now in New York, was read, in
which he regretted his inability to
speak at the protest meeting.
A letter was read from Mary Nc
Dowell, urging the garment workers to
carry on their fight until the conditions
prevailing in New York market were
established in Chicago.
Learn Two Lessons.
eve should learn two lessons" de-
clared. Maud McCreery, from this
situation. We ought to learn that
, there are no friends of labor on the
capitalist party tickets.
"The other lesson we must learn, is
that we are not going to solve the
problem until every man and woman
in the industries belongs to the or
ganization. And not only must they
belong to the organization and hold
cards, but they must be responsible,
militant, fighting members OF the or
ganization.
Until every one of us will violate
these injunctions," continued Nc
Creery, "and they find it necessary
to put up Billy Sunday tents to hold
all of us, they will continue to issue
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