A letter to Judge R.R. Stuart
1989 1989-01Read it in the scan (PDF at ETOL), page 4 →
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County Court House Toledo, Ohio Honorable Judge Stuart:
The following is the letter sent by the Lucas County Unemployed League referred to elsewhere on this page by Ted Selander. Selander and Sam Pollock, iwo of its officers, wrote Judge R.R. Stuart to inform him of their intention 1o violate the injunction by encouraging mass picketing. They did so. They were arrested, tried, and released after being warned to cease picketing. They went directly from court to the picket line with all their fellow unemployed league members and strikers who had been present.
May 5, 1934 On Monday morning May 7, at the Auto-Lite plant, the Lucas County Unemployed League, in protest of the injunction issued by your court, will deliberately and specifically violate the injunction enjoining us from sympathetically picketing peacefully in support of the striking Auto Workers Federal Union.
We sincerely believe that this court intervention, preventing us from picketing, is an abrogation of our democratic rights, contrary to our constitutional liberties and contravenes the spirit and the letter of Section 7a of the NRA.
Further, we believe that the spirit and intent of this arbitrary injunction is another specific example of an organized movement to curtail the rights of all workers to organize, strike and picket effectively.
Therefore, with full knowledge of the principles involved and the possible consequences, we openly and publicly violate an injunction which, in our opinion, is a iuppressive and oppressive act against all workers.
Sincerely yours, Lucas County Unemployed League Anti-Injunction Committee