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CHICAGO MINISTERS LINE UP AGAINST POLICE
AND CLOTHING BOSSES
Chicago ministers of the gospel
are breaking precedents by their ac
tion m lining up aga"mst the partisan
policy of the city police and the anti
arbitration attitude of the Kuppen
heimers, Rosenwalds and garment
bosses.
At a conference in the home of
Prof, and Mrs. Frank R. Lillie yes
terday Dr. Oscar C. Helming, pastor
of the University Congregational
church, said he is going onto the
strike picket line again. He was
rough handled and arrested last week
by Chief Healey's harness bulls on
the job at the Kuppenheimer shop.
But Rev. Helming, along with oth
ers from the university, is going
again into what the sluggers call
"the death belt" He said:
"Whatever my views on the strike
I could never condone the un
neutral attitude of the police in this
fight"
Ministers, professors and students
were at the Lillie home conference.
Mrs. Lillie is the daughter of Richard
T. Crane, the multi-millionaire iron
monger. She is a sister of Charles
R. Crane. Ordered off the picket line
by Healey's crack policemen on
strike duty recently, Mrs. Lillie
would not go. She dared them to
arrest her for peaceably walking the
sidewalks. And when the cops didn't
arrest her she flung the defi at them
that they knew she was rich and
had plenty of money to defend her
self in the courts.
The coarse-mouthed and rough
handed tactics of Chief Healey's men
on duty at garment shops has shaken
up the sense of fair play in both the
church and university circles. Among
those who have offered to go on the
picket line this week are: Prof, and
Mrs. Lillie, Dr. Edward Ames, Dr.
Edith Flint, Prof. Hackett Newman,
Dr. Alice Hamilton, Prof. Hollister
Miss .Grace Temple and Dr. and Mrs.
E. B. Hutchinson.
Rev. Austin Hunter of Jackson
Blvd. Christian church last night
said in his sermon:
"Jesus took into consideration the
bystander in his work. He sought
his good, as well as the individual
with whom he was dealing directly.
His work was altruistic and un
selfish. He also taught his follow
ers to remember the bystanders.
They were to let their light so
shine that men might see. They
were to be a good neighbor to any
men in distress, regardless of nation
ality or creed.
"There are multitudes of bystand
ers in our city toward whom we -are
indifferent Just now a strike is
on among a class of workers whose
wages have been pitifully low.
Their only salvation is to stick to
gether. Without a union such a
worker is a nonentity, absolutely
helpless. With others I spent some
time doing picket duty with these
people and studying their problem.
The cruelty and unfair attitude of the
sluggers, and even policemen, was al
most unbelievable to me. I saw two
brave, rugged sluggers, with their
stars concealed, cruelly beat a frail
woman and when some of us tried to
take their numbers, that we might
take the matter up with the proper
authorities, they insultingly refused
and called us all manner of insolent
names.
"The attitude of these brutish men
is anything but neutral. It is time
good people should take a lively inter
est in the battle for bread waged by
the&e unfortunates. The spirit of
brotherhood, which is the spirit of
Christ, calls for a square deal for all."
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