The daily worker., 1926-07-15
.ss'HlIR GARMENT
81 pMskFTV
I've PRISON
Parade Thru the Mar
ket Street District

Freda Reieher, Evelyn Dornfield,
Florence Corn and Oscar Sirnons left
the Cook County jail amid the wild
cheers Of fellow members Of the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers
Union.
These four had completed their 30
day sentences in the prison for defy
ing the anti-picketing edict issued by
Injunction Judge Dennis z. Sullivan
during the 1924 dressmakers' strike.
Workers from many shops in the
Market street garment manufacturing
district from which these four had
been taken by. States. Attorney
Groves men for defying the anti
picketing edict, were at the jail doors
with large bouquets of flowers.
Shops and Unions Represented.
Among the shops represented were
Hyman Brothers, Kuppersmith, and
Kisbaum. The Northwest Side
Mothers League, the Women's Trade
Union League, thru Miss Margaret
Haley, the Millinery Workers Union,
Local 50, thru Anna E. David, the
Freiheit Singing Society, the Women's
Organization Committee of the Chi
cago Joint Board of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union as
well the joint board and several locals
had delegations at the jail to meet
these four courageous workers.
March Thru Garment District.
From the jail the four released
members of the International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union and those
that had come to great them marched
into the loop and along Market street
where the bitter fight was waged, to
the union. headquarters on West Van
Buren, st.
Assail Weak-Kneed Policies.
In the headquarters a celebration
was held. The pickets one after the
other expressed their determination to
carry on the struggle. They bitterly
assailed the Chicago Federation of La
Dor and the Illinois Federation of La
bor officials for their failure to arouse
the Chicago labor movement to de-
mand their release and to open fight
against the injunction menace. Back
stairs political dickering with the At
torney-general Oscar e. Carlstrom
machine and the Len Small machine
was pointed out as the wrong way to
fight for the release of workers jailed
for insisting on their right to fight
for better conditions.
Courts Always With Bosses.
when labor goes on strike for
few cents more in wages a reduction
in hours, or betterment in their con-
ditions the courts always step in on
the side of the bosses with their in
functions" declared Freda Reicher,
who returned from tubercular sani-
tarium in Colorado to serve her 80
day sentence.
"As it stands today the courts sup
port sae organization of employers
associations. They do all they can to
wreck the union organization.
1--WE must ignore the. present form
of justice that is being dispensed in
labor disputes. We feel that we were
right in fighting the Injunction.
Fight Openly.
Labor must openly fight injunctions
and fight until it is destroyed as
weapon of the bosses to break their
strikes.
I'VE feel that labor in Chicago has
not shown what it could do. We feel
that back-stairs. political bargainings
should not be used"
Scores Officials.
She then cited how during the entire
strike the officialdom of the Chicago
Federation of Labor feared to aid the
strikers in their fight against the in
junction. She pointed out that when
Meyer Perlstein, number OF strike
pickets and herself appeared before
the Chicago Federation of Labor's
9s'@ CONTINUED on page 2)