The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
ASHLEIGH TELLS
OF SOLIDARITYIN
DOCKERS' STRIKE
Left Wing Committees
on the Job
Special to The Daily WORKER
BY CHARLES ASHLFICH

S4AS StSfSuOFeS Union, the strike
Is complete. No work is being done
In any Of the ports.
Inc meat profiteers have raised the
price Of meat, out of all proportion
70 the scarcity, which, as a matter of
TACT, has not yet made itself felt. The
iongshoremen's union has proposed to
the government that they viii allow
cerOain necessary stores to pass, if the
government, on its side, will puaran-
Tee TO prevent profiteering.
Sevral minor incidents have arisen
out of the mass picketinp Three or
TOUR plcketers have been fined in the
courts for assaults on drivers of
trucks who endeavor to enter the dock
gates in order to load stores which
are carried to the trucks by clerks,
foreman and other employees who are
with but very scanty success-try-
ing, IN some measure, to replace the
lockers.
Scab Goods Banned.
Drivers of trucks are also members
OF the Transport and General Work
ers' Union. The union has issued in
structions to them that they are not
to handle any goods from the docks.
ms order has been rigidly obeyed,
and, as result, about 5000 men have
been directly affected, and about o.
900 more, indirectly. The union has
issued a warning to all employers of
teamsters in the London area that
should they attempt to continue to
victimize members Of the union for
carrying out the unions instructions.
the whole of the drivers, regardless of
their work, will be called out" 1t
must be understood that these team
sters are making no demands Of their
own, Of the bosses, but are merely
demonstrating their solidarity for
their fellow members who are on
strike on the docks.
Labor Officially Supports Strike.
The General Council of the Trade
Union Congress, the highest official
trade union body in Britain, has Of
ficially endorsed the strike, pledging
the full support of British unionism.
Other strikes, which have broken
out in London since the lockers
strike commenced, are a strike of
meat porters, in the Smithfeld Meat
Market, and about one thousand om--
nibus drivers-also members of the
Transport and General Workers
Union. These strikers are for special
objects, independent of the dock
strike, but, arising at this juncture,
and being of a spontaneous nature,
they are of great Importance. For
one thing, they signalize a general re-
sumption of militancy among the
transport workers of all grades.
At the same time, it is rumored
that the road transport workers of
Britain are shortly going to hold
national conference on wages and
conditions; and many branches of the
railroad workers unions are sending
in demands to their executives for a
conference to draw up demands for
improved rates of pay.
Left Wing Activities.
The Communist Party of Great Bri-
tain and the British Bureau Of the
Red International of Labor Unions
are by no means inactive amid all this
strife. The members of the party are
assisting the strikers by every means
in their power. The party units have
proffered thsirs services to the strike
committees in all parts of the country.
A leaflet has been issued, calling
upon workers in all branches Of the
transport industry to stand solidly by
the striking longshoremen. Special
reference is made to seamen. The
activities Of the Red International Of
Labor Unions in this line are now in
creasing, with the publication of a
special seaman's paper, "The Interna-
tional Seafarer," in London. Under
the auspices Of the Red International
Of Labor Unions, Provisional Trans
port Workers Solidarity Committee
has been formed, consisting of left
wing representatives Of all branches
of the transport industry. These COM
mittees are both national and local.
Comrade George Hardy, secretary Of
the Marine Transport Workers Sec
ton Of the international Propaganda
Committee Of Revolutionary Trans
port Workers of the Red Interna-
tional Labor Unions, is secretary of
the Solidarity Committee. The leaf
let, which is being distributed in large
quantities in all ports, after stating
the objects of the strike. goes on to
say:
r. I. L. U. Solidarity Cry.
care we to let the lockers fight
alone? mol We cannot work
while our brothers are on strike
ashore. When the lines are made
fast, seamen are finished, unless
they are prepared to blackleg their
fellow workers.
"Dockers and seamen should
form joint committees locally and
nationally and make united de-
mands. We work for the same
bosses; the fight is common fight.
To achieve victory, all marine
workers in docks must be inactive
ashore and ahoat Not a rail, road