The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21
DRESS STRIKE
CROWS, BOSSES
NOW CONFESSING
Employer Paper Fears
Fight on Open Shop
Will Last
"a Jailed Yesterday
Socialists Act as Stool
Pigeons in Court

The policy of insisting that the
strike has ended, which followed the
ridiculous one of saying there is no
strike, has now given way to open
admission of fear on the part of the
dress manufacturers that the
strike "may plague the trade
throughout the season"
This admission was made yester
day in a report carried in the en-
ployers' trade journal, the Womens'
Wear, and means not only an ac-
tual confession that the dress strike
is still on, but the printing of the
story shows that the strike is grow
ing.
The toll of jailings last night
reached the figure of "a, report
from strike headquarters stated.
The union leaders are contemplating
action with other working class or
ganizations to protest against the
unequaled campaign of persecution
which the police are carrying on n
an effort to damage strike soli-
darity. The arrests yesterday put
the total number of jailed for the
criminal offense of picketing, well
over the thousand mark in the
slightly over two-week-old strike.
Figures from the union office of
the fact that the pickets have halted
production in so more shops, the
workers of which have Joined the
strike, prove that the impetus Of
the strike is still sharply on the up
grade, despite the police terror,
Socialists Aid Bosses.
That the police and employers
find able stool-pigeons and provoca-
teurs among the leaders of the So
cialist company union, can be
proved not only by the fact that So
cialists testify against arrested pic
kets, but these labor takers even go
so far as to demand the arrests of
workers picketing in front of the
shop.
This incident happened yesterday
at 327 w. 39th st. Antonninni,
company union official walked over
to the police with an employer. /.
Geller, and two thugs demanding
the arrest of five pickets in front of
the building. The complaint was
that they had entered the bosses
shop illegally, and that they were
armed gangsters. The workers chal-
lenged the socialist thugs that all
be searched for weapons to see who
the real gangsters were. In search
ing the pickets, the policeman was
also compelled to look into the poe
kets of the labor faker and his thugs.
In the pockets CT the officials, as
well as of the thugs, guns were
found.
Despite this the five pickets were
In jefferson Market Court.
James Dimos, Robert Parker and
Edward Stark, were let out on $500
bail each, because of testimony
against them by Antonninni. The
other two, Sophie Cohen and Geo.
Lakis, were released on $50 bail.
Others arrested yesterday were
5. Sallustro, George Silardo, Abe
Rubin, Mimma Rubin, Bessie Young
and M. Councilman.
With the issuance of a general
strike call practically few DAYS
off, the fuckers, Pleaters and Hem
stitchers Union, Local Al, affiliated
with the Industrial Needle Workers
Union, is we'll on it's way to COM
pleting construction of its strike ma
chinery. This Saturday afternoon,
at o'clock, the Organization Com
mittee Of the local will hold meet
ing in Joint Board offices, 131 w.
18th st.
Irving Potash, head of the Cen
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