The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
ILLINOIS BOSSES
THREATEN EXILE
OF FOREIGN-DORN
Admit Cheating Cloth
ing Strikers on Last Pay
BY CARL HAESSLER.
Federated Press).

(feueraIed IreSS).
WAUKEGAN, ILL.,, Feb. Hollow
the foreign born worker on strike
will be bounded, third-degreed and
possibly deported by the government
if the anti-alien bills go through con-
gress is illustrated on a small and
illegal scale in the garment strike at
Waukegan.
The Amalgamated Clothing WORK.
ers have been trying for over year
to unionize the runaway shop of
Rothschild & Granert, formerly under
union agreement in Chicago. The
shop was signed up after a strike
last summer but it broke the agree
ment at the first opportunity, The
strike has been renewed with strong
but law-abiding picket line that has
earned the respect of the police.
Threaten Deportation.
Failing to get the usual police CO.
operation in breaking a strike, the
clothing firm is now enjoying the
benefit of assistance from the federal
authorities. They are attempting to
intimidate the strikers by inquiring
of them whether they are citizens or
aliens and there is talk in the news
papers in this connection of deporting
those not born in the United States.
Counsel for the strikers immediate
ly showed that the law gives no au-
thority the right to question anyone
about his citizenship unless he has
been indicted for a felony. The at
torney advised the strikers to give no
information, either to the sheriff, who
was acting for the federal agents, or
TO the federal people themselves.
Give No Information.
eve shall stand pat on our rights
and refuse to give federal officers
any information about ourselves" is
the statement from strike headquar-
ters. eff they pick us up we shall
get out Immediately on habeas corpus
and shall sue for false arrest. They
are attempting to establish a dam
gerous precedent by questioning
strikers as to citizenship"
Secy. of Labor James Davis, a
Pittsburgh banker, is urging congress
to pass the bills for registration of
aliens. He also favors finger print
ing and photographing the foreign
born. The Waukegan incident shows
how such information would be used
to break strikes by intimidating the
strikers of foreign birth and even to
prevent union organization work in
the basic industries where the foreign
born constitute a large part of the
working force.
Bosses Stand Together.
Solidarity of the Waukegan en-
ployers against union progress is
demonstrated by the American Steel
& Wire Co.'s discharge of 3 employees
who expressed sympathy with the
garment strikers. The company also
warned two of its men whose wives
are garment strikers that unless the
women deserted the garment picket
line these men would be discharged
from the steel mill.
TIL Rothschild & Granert firm has
admitted guilt in shortchanging en-
ployes on the final payroll when the
strike began. 1t has paid claims
totaling S25.15 in justice court. Suits
for $25.95 in addition will be started
by the strikers. The claims were set
tied in spite of widely heralded pro-
fessional audit of the firms books by
order of the chamber of commerce in
which the auditors reported that all
wages had been paid in full.
The strike is in its 10th week with
out the desertion of single striker.
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