The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-29
ROsaIsky Gives Strikers Long
Term Sentences
(Continued from Pace 1l

Continued from rage
union leaders to destroy property and
injure non-union men, they hate no
foundation in fact.
These men were not sent ana did
not go out to slug anybody. They
went on the picket line and when
they were attacked they attempted
to defend themselves.
Gangsters Free.
There were numerous instances
during the strike in which pickets
were beaten and assaulted and even
/ shot by the hired gangsters of the
employers, yet these gangsters go
free today, while ordinary workers
are sent to'jail."
Zimmerman's Statement.
Charles S. Zimmerman, manager of
/ the dress department Of the Joint
Board, l. L. G. w. U. issued the fol-
lowing statement to The DAILY
WORKER:
Most of these people who were
sentenced this afternoon by Judge
Rosalsky are ordinary shop workers
who were fighting for their bread and
butter, and innocent of crime.
Not Sluggers.
! "Some of them have been members
of the union as long as ten to four
teen years, many being married and
having families to support. These
people are not sluggers, but workers
who are fighting for food for their
children and in defense of their I'M
ion.
while we find these union men be-
ing sentenced to long terms of i'm
prisonment, gangsters hired by the
BOSSES who brutally beat up the
strikers, are either discharged or let
go with a small fine.
Strikers Slugged.
To-day, many of the strikers are
still in the hospital as a result of
the beatings they received on the
picket line from the gangsters of the
bosses, who are walking the streets
as free men, and at the same time
we find the strikers being sentenced
to long terms Of Imprisonment"
POrtnoy's Statement.
julius Portnoy, manager of Local
% of the 1. L. G. w. u, expressed
the. greatest Indignation at the severe
sentences saying;
Most of these men are absolutely
innocent, and only pleaded guilty
when they had been held in Jail for
/ a long time under excessive bail and
were made to feel that by pleading
guilty to a lesser offense they would
/ fare better in this obviously preju-
diced case. 1t is disgraceful that it
is possible in this city to persecute
workers in this way"
Colds Statement.
Ben Gold, manager of the Furriers
Union Joint Board, also issued a
statement:
Judge Rosalsky's wholesale job on
the cloak strikers would be a surprise
even to such as would expect the
worst from him. His sentencing of
cloak strikers to Sing Sing will open
the eyes of thousands of workers to
the truth that workers cannot expect
Justice from judges who serve the in
terests of the ruling boss class. 1t
must be said about Rosalsky that he
faithfully serves his masters-the
/ bosses.
Did ROsalsky Care?
did Judge Rosalsky know that
these men whom he sent away to
prison for years were striking and
struggling for a bigger slice of bread
for their wives and children? Did he
stop to think that while his family
will have plenty of the best food,
while his children will have the best
clothes and education and life's pleas
ures, the wives and children of these
striking workers whom he sent to
prison will suffer in misery and
starvation?
Not Justice.
"Why this gulf between Rosalsky
and a worker? because capitalist
society rewards such judges as Rosal-
sky who help the ruling class to sub
jugate and explicit the workers. 1t is
no. question Of justice or conscience
to him. Suffer, or make the other
one to suffer, is the law Of capitalist
society. Rosalsky has chosen the lat
ter. Will the organized workers be
silent? wonder what President
Green or Matthew Woll will have to
say2 ! suspect they will say nothing.
But the workers must express their
feelings in this matter. The time is
fast approaching when the workers
will know the place for such judges
as Rosalsky. The Rosalskys will only
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