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VOL. XXV. No. 35
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By JOSEPH A. WISE?
Staff Correspondent, International
Labor News Service
Chicago.—Superior Judge Dennis E.
Sullivan, Chicago's notorious anti
labor injunction judge, has broken
loose again. He has declared the in
junction limitation act, passed by the
last session of the Illinois gentral
assembly, to be unconstitutional.
He brands "peaceful picketing,"
provided for in the act, to be "a con
tradictory phrase" and all picketing
unconstitutional.
Case Hinges on Clerks' Strike
The case at bar revolved around a
strike of the Retail Clerks' Union
^against the Ossey Brothers' depart
ment store, Halsted and Maxwell
streets. Judge Sullivan also dished
out the following fines and sentences:
Tom McGregor, Sam Waller, Sam
Krakow, Frank Boskey and Sam
Pessis, ten days in jail and $50 fine
Morris Segal and Sidney Goldblatt,
ten days in jail and $75 fine Harry
Winnich, leader and organizer of the
others in the picketing, 30 days in jail
and $200 fine Dora Entin, the one
woman named in the picketing charge,
$25 fine, suspended during good be
havior.
This decision makes the score stand
one for the injunction limitation act
and one against it, Superior Judge
Charles M. Foell having declared the
act to be constitutional in a lengthy
decision handed down in another case
a fejv weeks ago.
Labor to Ignore Sullivan Ruling
It is a foregone conclusion that or
ganized labor here will give little heed
to the Sullivan decision, for it is no
torious that Sullivan only reflects the
viewpoint of the powerful financial
interests which have been fighting or
ganized labor in Chicago and in the
state of Illinois for many years.
Notorious Anti-Labor Judge
Holds Illinois Injunction
Limit Bill Unconstitutional
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Judge Sullivan was elected on the
democratic ticket, but he was backed
by Charles G. Dawes, republican vice
president of the United States, and
the crowd that Dawes trains with.
It was Dawes and his friends, with
their comic opera organization, the
Minute Men of the Constitution, who
put Sullivan on the bench. There was
no secrecy about this support. Dawes
was out in the open and gloried in
what he was doing.
Labor Confident Law W ill Stand
The Sullivan decision will have the
effect of complicating and beclouding
the issue in the minds of the public,
but there is no lack of confidence as
to the constitutionality of the injunc
tion limitation act on the part of re
sponsible trade union officer^ in this
f-tate.
It was anticipated from the begin
ning that some judge of the caliber
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of Dennis E. Sullivan would defy the
will of the people of the state of Illi
nois, as expressed through the gen
eral assembly, and declare the act in
valid.
Highest Court to Pass on Law
That was considered as a foregone
conclusion and it has been the tacit
understanding that in such an event
a case would be carried up to the su
preme court if necessary. That is,
organized iabor would bide its time
until a clear-cut case should present
itself—one where there could be no
rloubt that the strikers were clearly
within the law and their constitutional
rights and then carry such a case up
to the highest court to determine
whether the act is good law. Whether
the present case involving the Retail
Clerks' Union is to be the one to be
carried up remains to be seen.
FASCISTI PENALIZE
AGITATORS ABROAD
Rome, Italy.—The chamber of dep
uties has empowered Mussolini and
his secret service to reach out into
any part of the world for Italian citi
zens who agitate against this auto
cratic government.
By an eleven-to-one vote the cham
ber passed a law which provides that
political refugees abroad who "plot'
against this government shall lose all
rights of citizenship and have their
property confiscated. The bill does
not state what offenses shall be con
sidered "plotting." Mussolini will be
the judge.
This law supplements a declaration
by the recent congress to force Fas
cismo to establish Italian newspapers
in Italian centers throughout the
world to defend Fascismo in the land
of their adoption and to hold to the
national ideals of Fascismo, rather
than the country in which they now
reside.
DEADLY NON
UNION MINES MAIN
TAIN HIGH RECORD
Charleston, W. Va.—Death con
tinues to exact its high toll among
the anti-union mines of this state
During October the lives of 54 miners
were destroyed. Nearly 25 per cent
of the fatalities were in McDowell
county, where a union miner is as
scarce as grapefruit in the Arctic
zone.
According to the state department
of mines, one life is lost for every
245,129 tons of coal produced. The
coal operators can violate the mining
laws with impunity and thus save' on
timbering and other costs.
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By Staff Correspondent, International
Labor News Service
Chicago. There have been 99
bombings in Chicago during the last
year, according to the police depart
ment, and the police managed to cap
ture the bombers red-handed on their
ninety-ninth job.
State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe
immediately got busy and asked for a
special grand jury to investigate all
of the tyombings pulled off in 1925.
His plan is to call in all of the vic
tims and ascertain who visited them
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Statements of Union Foes
Disproved by Barbers' Head
Campaign of Misrepresentation and Falsehood
by Newspapers and Authorities Seen As
Move to Discredit Organized Workers Be
fore Spring Primary Campaign.
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Press and Attorney Make Lying Charges
In Attempt to Pin Chicago Bombs on Labor
and what was said to them just before
they were bombed.
Crowe Has Genius for the Limelight
Mr. Crowe has a genius for show
manship and always makes a big
noise about what he is going to do
just before he starts to do it. He
gets lots of space in the newspapers,
accompanied by pictures of himself in
many heroic attitudes.
The daily newspapers credit Mr.
Crowe with having made the state
ment that investigation would show
that the victims of the bombings had
been visited by a labor union officer
and threatened just prior to the
bombing.
-The police captured three men and
a woman in the act of bombing a
hardware store on the North Side.
Sweated, they confessed that Joseph
M. Sangerman, owner of a barbers'
supply house, was their paymaster,
and that Jack Davis, a member of
Journeymen Barbers' Union No. 548,
was implicated with Sangerman.
Papers Print Lying Stories
The daily newspapers announced in
sensational stories that Sangerman
was one of the powers in the Bar
bers' Union and that Davis was an
ex-president of that organization.
Sangerman has never been a mem
ber of the Barbers' Union, according
to W. S. Leidig, president of that or
ganization, and Jack Davis is not an
ex-president of it, either. The daily
newspapers are aware of these mia
statements, but they have not taken
the trouble to make a correction, the
impression being left in the minds of
the public that responsible members
of organized labor are the directing
heads of the so-called "bombing
trust."
Barters' Head Refutes Stories
Interviewed by International Labor
News Service, President Leidig, of
Chicago Barbers' Union No. 548, said:
''Sangerman is not now and never
has been a member of our union. He
is the secretary and representative of
tht Master Barbers' Association (the
boss barbers' organization) on the
North Side. Jack Davis has never
been president of our union, although
he has made attempts to be elected,
but he is one of the radicals and has
always been turned down by the mem
bership.
"Our union is in the hands of the
conservative element and we have
things so tied up that the communists
and other destructionists haven't a
look-in. The radicals did have con
trol of the union up to a couple of
years ago and they ran the member
ship down from more than 2,000 to a
little over 600. We managed to get
control, and we now have 3,500 mem
bers.
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HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11,1925 ONE DOLLAR
It is not so long ago when the homes
of James Rose, our business represen
tative, and Frank Rango, the secre
tary-treasurer, were bombed.
"Those bombers are just a gang of
hoodlums who have no connection with
the official transactions and work of
this union,*' concluded Mr. Leidig.
Sangerman is charged with bomb
ing barber shops to frighten the own
ers into joining the Master Barbers'
Association and live up to its sched
ule of prices and rules as to closing
hours. That does not implicate the
journeymen, but the newspapers have
been trying to make it appear that it
does.
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"As to bombings," continued Mr.
Leidig, "officers of this organization
have had their homes bombed in an
endeavor to intimidate them, and
VBion barber shops have been, bombed.
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By International Labor News Service.
New York City. The building
boom continues in New York City ap
parently not the least affected by the
demands of the building trades for
substantial increases in the new wage
contracts or the more startling pro
posal of the five-day week by the
bricklayers and the carpenters.
Within ten days, down in the Fifth
avenue district in the heart of the
city, five towering skyscrapers with
a total valuation of $20,000,000 have
been announced. These will wipe out
such old landmarks as the Madison
Square Garden, now razed to the
Anyone at all familiar with condi
tions in Chicago since the Volstead
act went into effect is aware that
many of the bombing could be traced
to the rival and warring gangs of
bootleggers and booze and beer run
ners.
Hullabalo Seen As Anti-Labor Move
The political pot has begun to boil
for the spring primary campaign,
which promises to be a hot one. There
is a strong suspicion that all of this
hullabaloo about bombings, taken to
gether with the decision of Judge
Dennis E. Sullivan declaring the in
junction limitation act unconstitution
al, is just a frame-up to discredit or
ganized labor before the campaign
formally begins.
It is a 10-to-l shot that State's At
torney Crowe will discover a lot of
his political friends mixed up in the
bombings before he gets far into the
mess, in which event he will get cold
feet, just as he always does under
such circumstances.
Coroner Oscar Wolff has publicly
charged State's Attorney Crowe with
being in league with some of the most
notorious and desperate characters in
Chicago's underworld, and the state's
attorney has yet to enter a categori
cal denial.
Why Did Crowe Delay Action?
The question has been raised as to
why State's Attorney Crowe had to
wait until there were 99 bombings for
the year before he began to call the
victims before the grand jury.
New York City Building Boom
Continues at Tremendous Pace
Despite Wage Increase Demand
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1925 Building Set Record
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Reports of the state industrial com
mission show that the feverish pace in
New York city is sufficient to over
come the decline of building construc
tion upstate, so that the 1925 record
will exceed that of any construction
year thus far. The pressure of these
proposed colossal projects will have
an important bearing on the outcome
of the wage demands of the New York
building industry.
October, with a total of $125,000,000
for building plans filed in the state,
was equal to the spring peak. Most
of the new construction is for residen
tial work and strangely enough the
trend is toward apartment houses,
with two or three rooms to the suite
and a decline in the building of two«
family houses.
New Tendency Continues
State experts direct attention to the
continued tendency away from the
single house for one family to the
multiple dwellings with rich and poor
alike tending to come under one roof
in large congregations rather than in
solitary groups as in the old-fashioned
mansions on Fifth avenue or the
brownstone houses of more modest
families on the side streets as was the
style in the last generation.
Of course there are no tenement
houses of modern construction which
workers can afford to rent being built,
but Alexander M. Bing, of the city
housing corporation, who is rallying
public opinion for such construction,
now says houses can be built to rent
at $7 a room per month which is with
in the means of skilled mechanics who
have steady work.
Residence Building Big Factor
Residential buildings now are the
chief factors in the heavy building
program in all boroughs of the city,
though a large number of permits has
been filed for factories, amusement
places and schools.
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