The Daily Worker

SHOE WORKERS
FIGHT LOCKOUT
Bosses Get Injunction
Against Picketing
Fifteen hundred shoe workers were locked out in 12 different shops operated by the bosses who are members of the Metropolitan Shoe Manufacturers Association. This outfit was organized by the labor-bating Commissioner W. G. Woods, of the Department of Labor.
The most significant point in the lockout is that the bosses who are guilty of breaking the agreement existing between the Independent Shoe Workers' Union and the bosses have applied for and received from
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Shoe Workers Fight Lockout
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Superior Court Judge Dunn a vicious temporary injunction.

The injunction is of a sweeping anti-labor nature against picketing. The bosses procured the aid of the capitalist courts two days after the lockout. This proves conclusively that it was a cut and dried proposition before the lockout went into effect.

The drive against the union is primarily directed against the shop delegate system which has successfully prevented the bosses from cutting wages and reducing prices, as well as prevented the bosses from firing at will.

The organized shoe workers, under the banner of the Independent Shoe Workers Union are prepared to carry on the fight among all the workers in the shoe trade. Every shoe worker must line up with the Independent Shoe Workers Union—the unorganized as well as the organized.