The Daily Worker

Another Injunction Judge

Let all workers know that one of the most sweeping injunctions ever issued against organized labor has just been handed down in the war on the Amalgamated Food Workers by Judge Hugo Freund.

The big significance of this event is not that Judge Freund has come to the aid of 170 Greek restaurant bosses. That was expected of him. He is an elected republican judge and that is what he was elected to do. He lived up to the bosses' expectations.

But the thing for the workers of Chicago to remember is that their officials, 15 of them, "The Labor Committee of 15 on Injunctions," openly and actively advocated the election of Judge Hugo Freund at the elections last fall.

The officials of labor, headed by John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, urged the workers to elect this judge who is now hitting them over the head with an injunction, after these same officials had righteously declared that, "Government by injunction has become a menace to free citizenship."

Fitzpatrick and the other members of the "Injunction Committee of 15," helped elect Judge Foell, the foe of the garment strikers. They helped elect Judge Freund, the foe of the food strikers. And any one of the other 19 judicial candidates endorsed by the "Committee of 15," at the Nov. 6, 1923, elections, will follow in the footsteps of Foell and Pam when they are called upon to serve their masters, the bosses, in some labor struggle.

Watch out for the leaders of labor who ask you, the workers, to vote for such old party, bosses candidates on election day.