The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
The Proper Answer
to the |. r. t.

THE DAILY WORKER said yesterday editoay that the nunc
ton filed by James Quackenbush general
borough Rapid Transit company challenge the labor
and that the strike which designed crush enough
porance without the added of the Injunction at
tract the sympathetic attention and support Of American Fedora
ton of Labor officials"
The l. R. T., general counsel new threat
couched in terms that should every drop fighting
the veins of and the United
Quackenbush says:
The last time something like this happened, we sent
$50 men to Jail. This time III give them little variety.
propose in this matter enforce every legal right
pany has, This is not idle gesture We will let
the law take its and they misbehave the
STICKS ITS HEAD UP AROUND NEW YORK SOME MEM
BsRs WILL GO TO JAIL. PERHAPS THIS ACCOUNTS +
FOR THEIR QUlESCENCE.
The "Amagamaed Quackenbush refers to is the Anal
gamaed Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees
affiliated with the American Federation of Labor headed by
ahon now in Chicago negotiating for the 100000
workers on the surface and elevated lines
The L. r. has confscated the wages due strikers has
brought Injunction suit confscaory in its demands
infamous Danbury halter precedent Quacenbus stated that
the r. T. injunction likewise will precedensn
Now he makes the categorical statement that canal
gamaed Union sticks its head around New York
viii go to jail"
The l. r. t. satisfied with attempts to outlaw the strike
ITSELF that will outlaw f. with 100
its members will go to jail they dare
ganze the l. r. T. workers.
Statements of this kind ignored by labor move
ment.
Joseph Ryan the Central T1 and Labor oun
il of New York the only prominent reply SO far
lie is quoted as follows:
This suit is notice labor must push it's fight
to limit the rights of the in industrial disputes The
right to jury trial in like ought to be and must
be assured.
This statement is all right goes does not 90
lar enough 1t does not touch the heart
Are workers who try to organize unions which
game the to be treated individuals organizations
criminal In their that paid laey corporation
ackuard and threaten them in the public press oncate their
personal property and send them to Jail without
officially and with its full power resisting utmost?
Amagamated Association of Street Electric Railway EMPLOYEES
backed by all the forces the American Labor
muster to begin organization drive the T. enlist
every union man in New York who believes work
rs to organize and is willing fight right every
H. T. worker the full support the labor and then
proceed to smash the company union and build one
This sort OF reply will not only Quackenbush scurryne
for cover but will teach unogettabe r. T. and
similar corporations whose grows direct proportion
the failure of the labor movement to challenge it.
There is opportunity in New check the Injunction
offensive OF the capitalists an for the
trade union movement to build powerful city anspora
ton workers
This opportunity must not be allowed to pass
But If militant the
efforts to organize the r. extend the strike arc
made it will be admission that Quackenbus has correctly
mated the powers of resistance the labor as almost