The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-26
POLICE OBEY THE
ORDERS OF HEAD
OF PULLMAN CO,

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class paper and that it would back
the strike to the limit.
Reeve showed the striking shop
workers how the DAILY WORKER
had helped the garment workers
strike in Chicago. He said that the
paper kept the issue alive before its
many readers each day.
Adolph Werner, general vice presi-
dent of the Brotherhood of Railway
Carmen, the union in which the strik-
ers are organizing, spoke to the men
yesterday morning. He spoke in both
Polish and English and was much APP
plauded by the workers.
Meetings are held every morning at
10 o'clock at Stancik's Hall, 205 East
115th street.
Mr.. F. L. Simmons, supervisor of
industrial relations Of the Pullman
Company, could make no statement
about the strike, he said. He claims
to have been out of town for several
days with "sick daughter" and that
he doesn't know what conditions are
in the shops.
Company Official "StaIIs."
After considerable "stalling' and
passing the buck" one of the man.
ayers at the Pullman car works said
excitedly OF the strike:
"There's nothing to it. Forget
about it. Every car works, all the big
places have these troubles. You see
the work is piece work and the men
are always dissatisfied. 1t isn't worth
the printers ink to write about it.
Nothing to it."
Not Calm, However.
The Pullman bosses aren't exactly
calm about the situation in the car
works in spite of the aid of the police
and of the capitalist dailies in keep
ing mum" on the strike and publish
ing ads for workers without adding
strike conditions" as required.
A Strike Without Deserters.
Not a striking Pullman car worker
has gone back to work Against the
wholesale importation of incompetent
scabs, against the rifle squads, plain
clQtfSoSf Is. ttpgs, Pullman Company hire
-j JIis - ~ - st persuasiouE and threats
of ~ Angsters who have been Wis
iting the homes Of the strikers-THE
PULLMAN STRIKERS H AVE
BROUGHT PRODUCTION TO PRAC-
TICALLY A COMPLETE STAND
STILL.
The vicinity of the Pullman plant is
like an armed camp today. Uni
formed policemen are patrolling the
city by twos and threes. Automobiles
filed with rifles camped at the gates
in the morning.
DAILY WORKER on Job
The DAILY WORKER reporters
discovered late yesterday that many
workers were coming to the employ
ment Office of the Pullman Company,
answering lads" in the capitalist pa
pers for heaters, riveters, buckers and
reamers. The DAILY WORKER re-
porters told the men lined up for jobs
to Beat it, there is a strike on"
Practically the entire line left the vi
entity. Many good union men were
in the crowd. They promised to show
up at the strike meeting today to help
the strikers.
Werner Addresses Strikers.
Adolph Werner, vice president of
the brotherhood of Railway Carmen,
spoke to the strikers at yesterdays
strike meeting.
MANY of you are ex-soldiers," said
Werner, "and some of you have prob
ably been in Russia after the arm
istice was signed You know why you
were sent to kill the Bolsheviks and
Japanese. 1t was because the Czarist
government owed the Pullman Com
pany millions Of dollars. The Bolshe-
wiki would not pay the debt incurred
by an imperialist regime. So you we're
sent over to butcher workers and be
butchered, so that the Pullman Car
Company could bring in few more
million dollars.
War on Slave Driving.
"This strike is not only a protest
against the reduction Of your wages.
1t is a declaration Of war against the
slave driving and anti-union policy
of the Pullman Car Company.
John Holmgren told the strikers
that the activity of the thugs and cops
and officials OF the Pullman Company
in trying to get something on the men,
and in trying TO get them to return to
work showed that they are winning
the strike. He told how the big com
panies always use these methods to
discourage and divide the strikers and
try TO induce them TO return to work.
"They come to your home and prom
Use you better conditions II you will
return" said Holmgren. "Or else
they try TO set one nationality against
the other. They tell the Poles that
the Ukranians are no good and they
tell the Ukranians that the Poles are
no good. They are trying by this
method to divide the strikers, but
they have not succeeded"