The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Down with Government by Injunction
OpenShoppers! the Injunction
Smash the Open-Shoppers!

The Workers (Communist) Party of
America, taking the initiative in the
growing union activity against the in
junction menace, today issued a warn
ing and call to the labor masses of
America to grid themselves for battle.
Through its Central Executive Com
mittee, the Workers Party spread
broadcast a message of which it is
planned to print one million copies
for distribution among the workers in
every part of the country.
After summarizing the havoc
wrought by the injunction to the labor
movement and pointing out the fact
that by creating system of injunc-
ton democracy, 1.-The big employers
are out to destroy root and branch the
labor organizations which you have
built thru many years of painful
struggle" the statement goes on to
say:
Disregard, Disobey, Break Every
Injunction. Tear every injunction
edict to pieces. Treat every injunc-
ton as Scrap of Paper"
How important the struggle against
the injunction is regarded by the EX-
ecutive Committee of the Workers
(Communist) Party can be seen from
the unusual preparations which are
being made for the widespread dis
tribution of the statement which is to
be printed in the form of leaflet to
be handed out wherever workers both
organized and unorganized assemble.
The whole forces of the Workers
Party are to be mustered for the cam
paign.
The leaflet draws emphatic atten-
ton to the fact that Injunction Dem
ocracy is a system equally prevalent
and vicious during periods Of demo-
cratic party control of the U. S. Gov
eminent as under the notorious Attor-
ney General Palmer in 1919 and in
times of republican party rule under
the no less infamous Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty; that under the So
called ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Gov
ernor Adams of Colorado and the re-
dictionary Governor Fisher of Penn
sylvania the Stacking of labor and
the sitting of its organizations go on
equally. The only remedy points out
the statement is to:
Build Powerful Labor Party to
Help Fight the Battles Of the Work
ers Against the Exploiters."
Following is the statement in full:
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Working men and women! You are
facing the most crucial test Of your
lives. You are all on trial.
Your right to the pursuit of life,
liberty and happiness is becoming a
tragic farce thru Government by in
Junction!
You are being robbed of the right
to organize.
Your unions are being wiped out.
A devastating injunction epidemic
is plaguing the working class thru
cut the country.
A gigantic open-shop conspiracy is
afoot.
The coal barons of Pennsylvania
and Ohio, the traction kings of New
York, the coal magnates of Colorado
and the rest of the big employers are
out to destroy root and branch the
labor organizations which you have
built thru many years of painful
struggle.
Your enemies, the owners of indus
try, are out to smash the genuine
trade unions and to put in their place
the fake bosses unions, the counter
felt company unions.
Your bosses, your exploiters, are
hell-bent on Gripping your fighting
forces so as to force upon you de-
grading working conditions and star
walton wages.
Deadly blows are now being struck
against every working man and
working class family in the whole
country by the capitalist dictatorship,
the employing class tyranny, operat-
ing most brazenly as Government
by injunction"
Miners Union in Danger.
The miners union, the backbone of
the American trade union movement,
is fighting for its life. The capital
lists, the coal operators. their courts,
their governors, and their senators
have placed the coal fields under
state of virtual military siege, actual
MARTIAL law, in order to smash the
United Mine Workers of America and
then be able to destroy the other la
Dor organizations.
One hundred and seventy-five thou
sand scabs are now being protected
by injunctions in the coal fields Of
Pennsylvania.
At the same time, one hundred and
fifty thousand union coal miners and
their wives and children, all together
totalling a population of nearly three
quarters of million are now facing
starvation, suffering acutest misery,
being thrown out into the streets to
freeze, and brutally dubbed by the
state cossacks ard company thugs in
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