The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-04

against the workers on strike.
Wednesday evening over fifty
police, the armed force of the
capitalist class, were lined up
from Halsted to Green street
and from Jackson Blvd. to Van
Buren, st. Thugs abounded. Flivver
squads ran at top speed around the
block, continually. And parked in a
strategic position was the machine
gun riot detail-with Captain Schu-
macher in charge of the auto, while
around these armed forces swarmed
the strikers. The streets were black
with them. 1t was class war.
Tuesday, the open shop bosses had
taken their dwindling crew of scabs
home in scabby Yellow cabs. Just
why they did not do so Wednesday
night was explained by Amalgamated
officials at a strike meeting. But,
anyway, they were robbed of riding
home in scab taxis, treated like pris-
oners and let out few at time,
trying like frightful rabbits to lose
themselves in the crowd.
Easy to Spot Strikebreaker.
But there is something about a scab,
even a United Carmen Workers
union label" scab, that honest work
ers can spot mile away, and many
were recognized. Naturally, there
were several arguments, the scabs not
wishing to be detained in their flight
for shelter by lines of angry workers
hemming them in on every side and
telling them in none too gentle tones
that they were traitors toe the work
ing class and robbers of workers
stomachs.
Officials were on the picket line,
circumstance that did much to heart
en- the rank and file. Yeritable clouds
of strikers covered the streets for
blocks, turning out at $3.50 in the
morning and sticking to the job of
picxeting with determination and en-
thusiasm. So persistent are the
Amalgamated members that this fight
shall be won that they can hardly be
induced to leave the picket line even
to go to strike meeting. I'VE can
do more work on the picket line. That
is where we win the strike" they de-
clare.
I. AT the meeting in Hold Carriers
Hall, enthusiastic crowds greeted
many speakers. Mike De Novi, bust
mace ooonf 90 oooI O7n ,.,3,,. ,,,or t,,,ei
ness agent for the A. C. W. in the two
struck shops, and Louis Chiostrio,
spoke of how remarkably we'll" the
Italian workers are doing on the pick
ct line. They warned the workers that
the firm was trying to use racial pre-
JUDGES to divide the workers. The
assistant manager of the Chicago
Amalgamated and a member of the
G. E. B., gave survey of the strike
situation:
Scab Heads Cheap; Taxi Windows
Dear.
I'VE do little talking, but much
work. The Yellow scab taxi are
hesitating to carry the scabs. The
heads of scabs are cheaper to the
bosses than the windows of cabs. So
they didn't use Yellow cabs last night.
"The United Garment Workers al
legged union is not interested in
union membership. All it cares for
is to sell labels to the manufacturers
1t has a printing plant Id New York
City to turn them out and the bosses
pay the dues to the union. 1t is moth
ing but scab agency, having no in
terest in the membership. That is
why the membership left it in 1910.
"The Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers of America does not belong to the
American Federation of Labor, yet in
the 1919 steel strike, when workers
of the A. F. of l.. fought against the
capitalist steel barons, we were the
first of all to send them $780,
000 Solidarity is needed in the labor
in the fight between CAPT
tai and labor.
"In New York City" concluded
Rissman, "the International Tailoring
company told the workers who walk
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