The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-24
STRIKE CROWS
IN GULF And
The ATLANTIC
Spirit of Struggle Sweeps
Seamen
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claAS Oh the luL6TudJlOudl OeHm6ub
Union, who are trying to get their I'M
informed members to sign on struck
ships AS soon as the crews Of the
Melville Dollar and the William
Penn went ashore, the l. s. q. lead.
ers' delegates rounded up some Of
their members, and signed them ON
under the guise of being good union
men" In Baltimore, likewise, the /.
s. U. business agent, one Hodgson,
went to the mate of a struck ship.
promised him a crew and confided
that he would soab the NJ T. w. out
of existence. The mate being a de-
cent fellow, gave him the time Of his
life.
Union scabbery is denounced by all
seafarers and the l. S. U. stands to
lose by it, for the demand for unity
in the whole labor movement is
against any scabbing at all. and es-
pecially against scabbing in the name
Of unionism, no matter what the ex-
cuse.
Gloom Spreads Over Britain.
LONDON, Sept. 22.--The dole" has
been stopped on striking seamen in
Liverpool, with the wives and ohil-
dren being forced to go into the poor
house for shelter and food. But the
men stand firm against the ship own
ers' wage cut, knowing they may as
well fight It out on this starvation
condition as to have to work and
starve besides.
Shops in Liverpool are being raid
ed, however, by desperate unemploy-
ed. The ship owners are signing on
even lads of Is years. But no active
seamen will work, barring he Il .
natural born scab.
Salllngs Cancelled, Trade Tangled.
The ship owners are daily being
forced to cancel more sailings, and
trade is tangled up beyond all
Strengthening. Even If the strike end
ed today, months will go by before
accumulated shipping could be handl-
ed. Fruit cargoes are rotting in ships
held in tropic ports. Commercial
agents are demanding that shipping
companies do something.
Over million tons of shipping is
already accumulated in ports thru
out the empire. Australian ports are
completely Idle.
At Sydney, twelve white and If
teen colored seRmen were jailed for
striking The policy Of Premier Bruce
of ruthless crushing of the strike has
produced a political crisis. Parlia-
ment has been dissolved and a new
election is called with direct chal-
lenge against Bruce being made by his
political opponent, Walsh, an avowed
Communist and leader Of the Austral-
ian strikers.
All British bourgeois are filed with
gloom at the seamen's strike follow
ing on the heels of the miners vio-
tory and the going to the revolution
airy left by British unions at the Scar
borough Trades Union Congress.
Trade Union Congress penouncss
Haveloek Wilson.
At Scarborough there was spon.
.aneous demonstration against the
leader Of British union scabs, Have
lock Wilson of the National Sailorsf
and Firemen's Union, who signed the
wage cut agreement and is doing all
in his power to break the strike OF his
own members.
The British labor leader Shinwell,
finally succeeding in getting the floor
to speak on the seamen's strike,
Chairman Swales after objection, bow
ing to the clear desire Of the dele
gates.
Winding up a skilfull and amusing
statement Of the case, Shinwell en-
barked on a scathing peroriation d.
rected against Havelock Wilson. But
before he got to his name, the dele
gates, realizing fully at whom the
string of denunciatory epithets was
directed, broke into storm OF cheer
ing and clapping.
British labor hates a scab. II has
no name too ugly for union scab.
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