The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
Shoe Strike Exposes Justice
OF Capitalist Courts, Press
Shows Department of Labor Is Strikebreaker;
Every Agent of Bosses Lies Recklessly

La vale Shoe Co., against the In
dependent Shoe Workers Union,
which contains in the cross-exami-
nation of Wood by the union attor-
ney, the, evidence that the letter he
sent out to the manufacturers and
all his steps We're in full agreement
and acknowledgements of his superiors
in the u. S. Department. of Labor at
Washington, 1t was also brought
out that no officials of the depart
.ment of labor ever made the state
ments printed in the N. " World
and Times denying knowledge of his
action The, role of the capitalist
press. is plain.e ~ r.
- = Not only the open capitalist, press
and the. capitalist government, but
the yellow socialist Forward" has
taken up the case of the bosses and
the seabs, against the. shoe workers
byJprinti4g statements of the scabs
attacking the independent Shoe
Workers Union and its leadership.
In this tthe,U. S. socialist party fol.
fowsaits German and other European
brothers. sWhereatke socialists con :
'trol the governments. they Shoot
down workers. in the streets when
they demand work or bread. . = =. :;
-'a - Capitalist Justice aio.' "a
/. Justice J.5P; Damn, of the Brooke.
fyn Supreme Court; who before he
was reelected promised to hand OUT
'justite to- .alifwhoi deseIvesit, i:.witia-5
out partiality,'" COVE out injunotions,
so-caIled Temporarily just for the
bosses asking. This was clearly,
demonstrated in many Cases. 81
tpecially in the case of the Shwartz
and Benjamin Shoe Co., 1874 'Nollr ST.,
Brooklyn, N. Y, where the workers
Of that company were locked odt
by Shwartz, president of the@Metro-
politan Shoe Manufacturers sa4Assoat
citation. Shwaftz asked his workers
to sign d yellow dog contract and
break with the, Independent Shoe
Workers Union. When the workers
refused to betray the union hes
locked them out. The same morn
ing he told some workers whom he
thought were loyal 10 him that he
had already Secured an Injunction,
and this was proven. TIE lockout
took place Thursday noon. On Fri
dow M n,,, II, ~ +bo ,,,a,l,o.,, ,,,f~.,o,,ol
with a strike and began picketing
Early Monday morning, before any
court, or government office is open,
Shwartz produced an injunction and
served it upon the workers. The
question is how in the world can
one secure injunctions within such
space of time? Something must !
be rotten in Denmark"
The iniunctions were served, some
of them three months ago. The
honorable Justice J. P. Dunn does
not care to give out decision, be-
cause the charges are mere bunk and
by holding back his decision Justice
Dunn makes the so-called item
porary injunctions" permanent.
. Dunn thus repays his election
campaign manager, who is the at
torney for the Metropolitan Shoe
Manufacturers Association, Eisen-
berg.
When it comes. to election the
workers must vote consciously for
those who fight for the interests of
the working class.
The answer of the shoe workers
to the United States department of
labor and the shoe manufacturers
and all their agents must be to join
the Independent Shoe Workers In
dustrial Union, build a powerful ma
tional shoe and leather workers in
dustrial union and fight for the 40
hour week, five-day week; shop
committee system, against piece
work, against speed-up, equal pay
for equal work and unemployment
relief, paid for by the bosses.
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