Honolulu Record, August 19, 1948, vol. 1 no. 3, p. 7
By RICHARD SASULY Federated Press Correspondent
Throughout the time that the Sherman and Clayton anti-trust laws have been on the books, no businessman has ever been sent to jail for monopoly practices.
On the other hand, the honor roll of workers who have been railroaded to jail for going on strike would fill this page and dozens like it.
This double standard of justice was never better shown than by the recent Univis strike in Dayton, O. For more than three months Local 768, United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers (CIO) was on strike against the Univis Lens Co. During that time the strikers suffered every known type of employer attack.
Who Goes To Jail?
At least a dozen strikers were beaten so badly by the Dayton police that they had to be sent to the hospital.
At least 22 were arrested. The local court warned five of the strike leaders that they would be fined $2,000 a day each if they even approached the vicinity of the picket-line.
The full weight of the state was brought to bear on the 600 Univis strikers when 1,500 National Guardsmen were brought in, supposedly to protect scabs. The troops used bayonets and tear gas. They rolled up a Sherman tank and an armored car.