The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-26
POLICE OBEY
OF
PULLMAN co.
But Canvass Strikers
Homes in Vain

Striking car workers of the
Pullman Company are not only
holding their lines intact but
adding new recruits to their
ranks in spite of the activities Of
uniformed police in soliciting
workers to return to their jobs.
The Pullman bosses have sent
out the city police to canvass
the workers homes and attempt
to persuade or intimidate them
into returning to their jobs.
The police obediently invaded the
homes of the riveters, buckers, heat
ers and other workers striking, tried
to ingratiate themselves and then in
sisted that the men go back to work.
The police made no offers of the
Pullman Company's surrender to any
of the demands Of the striking work
ers. Nothing but browbeating meth
DDS were used when the workers
failed to respond to the hypocritical
"frendliness' of the police.
Another trick some of the uni
formed men tried was asking for a
drink from some worker in the hope
that they could threaten arrest for vi
olation of the prohibition law, if the
worker would refuse to go back to
work. None of the strikers fell for
these old gags of the officers.
Police Increase in Number.
The police are increasing in num-
Der from day to day in the strike
zone. Yesterday morning found a
great array of the bluecoats on the
eicket lines. Many Of them paraded
in c,.rs a-'Qed with rifles 49,
down the line.
Advertisements for riveters. buck
ers, heaters and reamers for the Pull
man Company were carried in the
Chicago dailies without mention of
strike conditions. A number of work
men applied at the companys en-
ployment Office, 10th street and Cot
tage Grove avenue, but most of the
men were approached either before or
after reaching the employment super
intendent and told that a strike was
on.
DAILY WORKER Aids Pickets.
The DAILY WORKER reporter and
the circulation manager were active in
turning away unwilling "scabs." Most
of the men refused to work against
their fellows by going on the job.
altho some of the applicants were
very hard up or broke. DAILY
WORKER men gave couple of ex-
coal miners from Pennsylvania the
news of the strike when the men ap-
piled and gave them lunch money aft
er discovering that the former miners
had no money left.
Two other departments in the Pull.
man shops came out for the first time
yesterday. The broad finishers and
the battery makers came up to the
strike meeting and joined the union
at once.
The union had run out of applica-
tions the previous day, but yesterday
all who had not joined entered the
union. The strikers are now organ
lied practically 100 per cent.
Strikers voted to buy 1000 copies
of this issue of the DAILY WORKER
and took up a collection to make pay
ment. They are glad to know they
have a working class paper in which
they can follow from day to day the
progress of their fight against the
Pullman monopoly.
Jack Mccarthy, circulation man.
ager of the DAILY WORKER, and
Karl Reeve, reporter for the paper.
both addressed the strikers. Mo
Carthy pleaded with the men to organ
lie with John Holmgren in the Broth
erhood of Railway Carmen.
Mccarthy said that the DAILY
WORKER is 100 per cent working
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