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determined strike leadership not breaking the strike
but putting life into it.
STRIKE INJUNcTIoNs No-STRKE LAWS
Arbitrary restrictions upon the right to strike such
the issuance of njunctons adoption of Industrial Court
nosrike laws etc. the workers break down by dis
play of mtancy These are nettles Touch them lightly
and they scOrch you but grasp them firmly and they lose
their yirulence' 4l@a4 St~l
The hesatng way the conservatives handle these is
only strengthens the evils Mass violation 6f such
antistrike legislation and ukases is the way deal with
them No injunction denying the right of pcketing
stand in the face Of rigid determination Of strikers
picket Notwithstanding The collapse Of the Kansas In
dustral Court when Howas miners struck in spite Of it
typical of what happens to such tyrannca laws gen
orally when confronted by militant labor movement
The time when the A. f. Of l.. advocated officially
the application Of such aggressive tactics in of in
functions But in these days Of intensified class coabora
ton the bureaucratic policy grows weak and inspid Now
Its fight against njunctions amounts to little than
sentimental protests and fruitess attempts to line up
Labor friends In the old parties to vote against the
right of the courts issue njunctons in labor disputes
FREE SPEECH
Similar militant tactics be used with good effect
when the companies through their city agenc
les, attempt to prohibit free speech and the holding of
public meetings during strikes organizing campaigns
The thing to do is to hold them anyhow and 60 jail
if necessary welwaged free speech fight is never
Not in the black steel districts Of Pennsylvania
where the town officials are usually also steel company Of
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cas stockholders could they prevent from having
meetings in the campaign of 1888 They prohibited them
in Homestead Braddock Rankin, McKeesport puquesne,
and other cities but in each defeated them by TAX
ing to the streets in spite of their official ukases
Free speech fights excellent to unite and
inspire the workers in such situations provided the
paigns conducted that the workers realize their
direct connection with the wage struggle Care must be
taken precpitae such free speech fights premaurey
before the workers realize what at stake else they win
not support them.
The employers have keen Of the importance Of
militant working class leaders in the struggle Hence,
settled policy Of theirs is to arbitrarily these mill
ants wherever they get chance The raroadng to Jail
OF such labor fighters has long since been favore weapon
of American employers The frameup and the fixed. jury
their this end The cases of Tom Mooney W.
K Billings sacco Vanzetti Cline and Rangel are only
few of who have paid the penalty
This line Of attack the crppng of leadership is
one that must not be allowed go unchecked Under
existing circumstances the best protection that can be
thrown around them is wide and bitter fight to arouse
the working class in their defense when any are taken
This agitation must not flag until they finally released
These outrageous arrests and mprisonmens be
the occasions of such great upheayas and protests among
the workers. that the capitalists will often be compelled to
slow up if not abandon altogether their persecution plans
The labor movement must militanty defend its fighting
leaders 1t must be organized definitely this The
organization best fitted for such purpose the Tnterna
tional Labor Defense.
ITO be oontinaedI
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STRIKE STRATEGY
BY WILLIAM z. FOSTER
ARTICLE XVI
The FIGHT AGAINST THE TERROR


The employers use many weapons to crush strikes;
starvation, demorazng propaganda playing off section
OF workers against another brbng of leaders, etc. and
all these methods and interspersed with them they add
sheer terrorism With plain force they seek to break the
workers ranks and drive them back to work They always
have their private armies of pluguges and provoca
tours who systematically terrorize strikers But their
great reliance is the state.
The state is the strong right of the capitalist
class the great guardian Of their class interests They
control and dominate from top bottom It ever
their service with its hostile antabor legislation its
injunction breeding courts its army its state police its
deputy sheris etc. The degree which the employers
this great instrument Of egalzed violence against
workers depends upon the urgency Of their need.
If the strike is small one they may confne their vio-
ence TO the thuggey Of their private pluguges local
police If the strike is important they Will call
courts with their train of njunctions as and the
of it, And if the strike great of farreachng pot
cal significance they will the troops need be crush
it. Ever and always when they want it they the state
against the workers Their of its armed force linn
tied only by the degree of their necessity.
The question of fully meeting the Of the state power
by the capitalists against the workers in strikes and other
labor struggles raises the central problem Of the whole
labor movement the problem Of the overthrow Of the CAPT
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taist system So long the capitalists the
just that long will they its forces mitanty against
the workers and in defense of their proftmakng system
Hence the workers. to finally solve the problem must get
control Of the state themselves This will inevitably involve
bitter struggle for power between the classes But
fundamental discussion of this basic problem lies beyond
the scope of this booklet which is to elaborate system
strike strategy applicable under present conditions.
COURAGE AND INTELLIGENCE
Although the complete solution the use of the state
and the employers private forces against the workers
awaits the achievement of by the latter nevertheless
much be done under present conditions to ward off
counter prevent and weaken such attacks by employers
The strike strategst must learn courageousy
ineligenty in this crucial matter The history Of
the American labor movement is repete with the militant
defense made by workers driven desperate by fierce employ
ers attacks such in Homestead Colorado West Vir
gnia, McKecs Rocks, Herrin, etc.
When confronted with such open ruptures, the left
wing must stir the whole labor its depths
land its maximum support moral, financial Industrial
and political to the attacked workers If this is done the
capitalists will often not consider the game worth the
candle, to provoke costly upheaval among the broad
for the sake of bruta expressing section
skilfly cultivated pubic opinion" WILL under existing
American conditions help to such situations Liberal
organizations will help TO create this The employers in
Passac for example, learned that their tear bombs and
police clubbng in the face of thorogong exposure and
rif
s%Worker Of the state In the class
struggle should read "Ths state and Revolution by NJ Ln
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New York |. l.. D. to
Give Reception for
Political Prisoner

NEW YORK, Nov. Is. - Charles
Cline. a member Of the /. w. w. whose
release from 10 years of Imprisonment
IN a Texas prison for participating In
a Mexican rebel expedition to aid In
the overthrow of the despotic rule in
Mexico, will speak at reception and
dance to be given in his honor by the
New York section of the international
Labor Defense on Friday evening,
November 10 at Manhattan Lyceum,
sc East 4th Street
Everyone who attends this affair is
assured of good time. Dancing and
refreshments until morning. Tickets
at so cents are on sale at the I. L. D.
office, 799 Broadway, Room 422,
DAILY WORKER, 1OS East 14th ST.,
Room S2, and at the Jimmie Higgins
Book Store, 1877 University Place.
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VIGIL Radio Program

Chicago Federation of Labor radio
broadcasting station VIGIL is on the
air with regular programs. 1t is
broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length
from the Municipal Pier.
TONIGHT.
500 p. m.--chieaao Federation Of La.
Dor Hour; Hugh Willis, Security Super
visor Of the Illinois Industrial Commits
sion, Subject; Securing the compensa-
tion Risks"
e:oo-Alamo Cafe Dance Orchestra.
Vella Cook, contralto; Little Joe Warner,
Gerald croissaint, Charlie White, Mildred
Colucio, Harry Dream Daddy Davis.
6:30-The 6revoort Concert Trlol
11;3o-Alamo Entertainers.
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was dropped from service on a frame
up charge after II years without a
blot on his card Il told the company
then It was cutting off It's nose to
spite its face" in firing such in influ-
entail and respected porter, The
company didn't listen. Lancaster was
fired and few weeks later the Pull
man Porters Brotherhood got under
way.
When 81 Taylor was retired this
month before his full 40 years service
were in, he told the company officials
he expected it. 1--WE been here 80
years, months and weeks--24
years without mark on my service
card" He was informed that "the
company has something against you"
and told that company executives
could withhold his pension of about
500 a month. In addition to this veil
ed threat, he was asked what he had
to say about the charge that he had
played close to A. Philip Randolph,
general organizer for the Brotherhood.
His reply was: Don't say Randolph.
Say all the officers of the Brother
hood. I'm a member of the union and
proud Of it," Whether his pension
comes or not, 81 Taylor declares he
will stand by the new union till
death"
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WORKER THEATER
ANNOUNCES FIRST
IN GOTHAM
Biggest Boob" to Be
Shown December 4

NEW YORK, Nov. Is. ~ The first
English language proletarian theater
in America, the Workers Theater, an
nounced today that the opening date
of its first production, THE Biggest
Boob in the World" fantastic labor
comedy translated from the German
by Upton Sinclair, will be December 4.
The play will be given in the
Church Of All Nations, Second Ave.
The author is Karl Wittvoged, whose
Tragedy of the Seven Telephone
Calls" was prepared for production by
the Greenwich Village Theater last
year and dropped at the eleventh
hour.
Deeter Directs.
Jasper Deeter, actor and producer
of the Provincetown Players, is
directing the cast of workers. The
scenery, designed by Hugo Gellert,
Louis Loziwick, and William Chopper,
will be in the modern Russian style
broad simple and grotesque.
Florence Rauh, executive secretary
of the Workers Dramatic League. an
Inounced that 100 seats night will
be given tosthe strikers of New York
and vicinity. The play will be re
peated' in the Church of All Nations
on Dec and 10, and will then be
taken to the halls of various labor
organizations in Greater New York.
Started by Gold.
The Workers Theater was organ
lied last spring with Michael Gold.
Of the New Masses, as the guiding
spirit. A group Of workers, actors,
and stage technicians was assembled,
and studio at 81 Washington Square
South secured for holding dancing and
acting classes, as well as lectures by
such celebrated critics, writer's, and
artists as John Howard, j. P. McEvoy,
Mossaiye Olgin, Louis Loziwick, Hugo
Gellert and John Dos Passes.
Spirit of Labor.
The aim of the theater, according to
Michael Gold, is to present to Amer
lean audiences the spirit of labor in
drama that will touch closely the life
of the workers. Gold contends that the
American and European stage is
decadent, that it panders to the taste
Of small wealthy and effete audi
ence, and therefore has no great in
fluence in the life of the nation. He
plans to model the Workers Theater
here after some of the newer theaters
of Russia, which, according to Huntley
Carter, noted British critic, are now
the most vigorous and alive in the
world.
Among the plays which the workers
group plans to produce shortly in New
York are Upton Sinclair's Singing
Jailbirds," George Kaiser's Gas"
Ernst Toller's Machine Wreckers,"
Meierhold's China Roar" and Scho-
fields Men at War"
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WORKERS AIDED
IN PURCHASING
OF own HOMES
Wales Labor Govern
ment Forms Plan
BY w. RANcls AHERN
Federated Press.

SYDNEY, Australia, Nov. 10. = The
labor government of the state OF New
South Wales is about to launch out
on a BODYBUILDING scheme for the
workers. The government will follow
the Queensland example Of advancing
to the workers almost the full amount
of the purchase money of the homes,
repayable by instruments, and hold
as security life policy Of the worker
covering the amount owing to the
state. In this way the government
will be secured and the dependents of
the worker assured Of home free of
all encumbrance in the event of his
death.
Arrange Payments.
1t is proposed that a deposit shall
be paid on a sliding scale in accord
ance with the amount earned yearly
by the workers, as follows Yearly
earnings to $1,25O, no deposit; yearly
earnings from $3.50 to $4,000, per
cent deposit; yearly earnings from
pz,UUU 10 9GIOUV, ~ Per CenI uSpVSit'
$4,000 to $3,75O, Is per cent deposit;
$3.50 to $4,000, 20 per cent deposit;
over $4,000, rs per cent deposit.
It. is also proposed that government
lands shall be utilized as far as pos
sible to carry out the scheme, and,
so that the purchaser shall not be
overloaded by heavy commitments he
shall have the option of leasehold ten
ure, with the right to convert into free
hold at any time.
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N. Y. Paper Box Strikers
Appeal to Negro Scabs

NEW YORK. Nov. Is. TIP A
special circular entitled An Appeal to
All Colored Workers has been put out
by the Paper Box Makers Union I'M
der Manager Fred Caiola. The union
is striking for recognition in all shops
and improved conditions. Colored
strike-breakers have been brought in
in some cases and even made to as
sault white and colored pickets.
The union declares that is does not
discriminate against colored workers
in any way and protects them in their
jobs in peace times when employers
urge the union to remove colored
workers from shops. Colored members
Of the union are staunchly fighting
with the rest for union conditions. The
union circular appeals to non-union
colored workers to consider that the
employers will cast them aside when
the strike is over, because they have
no union to protect themS and urges
all to join the union fight.
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us she insane?"


cts reaction her life with her husband he
profgate she's miser They tell story about him,
he cash. and would drive about the
country blackboard with little bags each containing
dollars gold time he dropped bag
didn't it, his hands brought him. and old Hank
looked the with contempt and put his hand into his
pocket pulled half dollar. Here he said here's the
price of rope; so buy one and hang yoursef!'
80 she's taking care of the money!"
Exactly She pays all her bills by registered mail and
the receipts and insists having receipt from
post office and when that she files the together
recepted bill back she files and indexes
She won't let bookeeper do it, because you can't find
employees who trusted attend to this properly She
discovering
peoples cassness and incompetence She employs lawyers
then she employs other lawyers check them then
detective agency how the lawyers selling her
She's the county authorities prosecuting her
md that they're all lot of crooksshe maynt be wrong
won't book-keeper because
gaming about the house. busting the furniture naggng
servents because they won't take Of things"
The walked down the beach. Cup that HILL
aid elves old Hanks sister, he left her of the estate
quarreled boundary line
them her lovers and writes them
3woose letters and then they to blackma her and she
them he'll and they bring suit for unpaid salaries
and sell the letters the newspapers and they're all published
position rich and BESIDES she's old booze
fighter, and knows how to forget troubles"
MY God! exclaimed Bunny What property does to
people!
look at the old meet and think which of them
DO want be? And Oh God and jump into my
drive fifty miles hour get from troubles
from the people who want to tell me theirs!"
"Is that what you doing when the judge you
Jail for a week." laughed Bunny
NO" she answered that publicity stunt bright
idea of my advertising man."
CII p7zI3 WV
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CHAPTER XIV
The Star

Bunny back to Angel City discovered that
wanted follow Wee Tacys program of lodging other peoples
troubles he had made fatal mistake to get interested in labor
coege He Mr. Irving and found the young instruct
his the growing and disputes of the labor
All long his job had been interviewing lead
ympathzers and trying them together aNpro
gram He had managed the college started with three
teachers and about fifty pupils mostly coming at night; but it
was all precariousthe difficulties seemed overwhelming
handful of progressive and cear-mnded
the labor then there the great
bureaucracy dead from the up also little
bunch of radicals who would rather have bread
all than half loaf The old line leaders would have nothing to
with the college these reds got in the other hand
excluded the reds they would up clamor and lot
genuine liberals would say what the of college
that much like the old one?
The labor movement had its traditions having to do with
getting shorter hours and for the workers. and the old
officials bound by that point of view The union
official woringman who had escaped from day labor by
help political machine inside the union Anything
him the danger Of losing his desk job and having
back to hard work He had learned to negotiate with the
poyers and smoke their cigars and in large percentage OF
he spending money than his salary. Here
Angel City the unions had weekly paper that lived by soliciting
advertising from business menand what that but
spectacle form of graft? When took fighting
editor of that sort he would the dread work Boheym
and throw your copy into the trash-basket.
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Pullman company unlonlsm inside out,
for he has served on company union
committees longer than any other por-
ter.
White-haired but vigorous, ST Tay-
lor tells Of his experiences with the
Pullman plan as interpreted and ad-
ministered by superintendent, Jimmie
Mitchell, whom the porters call the
"Mussolini Of the Pullman Co. in the
Penn. Terminal District" Mitchell,
according to a Brotherhood pamphlet,
has long been known to "bulldoze, in
timidate and punish unoffending and
defenseless porters and maids" He
once remarked that his ambition in
life is ito keep the porters under his
thumb"
1.-THE company union committee
meetings were controlled by Mitchell
and associates" says Taylor IF he
didn't like the conduct of porter he
would hammer on the table with his
fist and tell the cringing committee
men the man couldn't work for him
any longer" Alone among the com.
mitteemen 81 Taylor would speak up.
Many times he saved the porters
their jobs. Many times he skated on
the thin edge of discharge for his ac-
ton. But being veteran porter and
popular with the men, the company
hesitated to fire him. On one occas-
ion the $4,000 a year head of the
company's Bureau of Industrial Rela-
lions called him into his office and re-
marked threateningly:
Some Of our old men have turned
damn fool and Joined the union. 1t
won't do them any good, I'll warn
them" Once when Taylor circulated
a petition signed by some 200 porters
asking for a wage increase, Mitchell
told him: You should have been re-
tired long ago, instead of coming
around asking for more wages" Nit
chell failed to send the petition to the
Pullman offlce in Chicago, but Taylor
took It there himself on his next run.
Were the ballots ever tempered
with in company union elections?" 1
asked Taylor. well, we never got
convincing legal proof, but we know
that in one election where Roy Ian
caster (then company union commit
tee secretary, now Brotherhood secre-
tary-treasurer) was running, 80 ballots
bearing his name were erased and the
name of his opponent-a company man
written in and counted. We also
know that after ballots are cast in
Pennsylvania Terminal District, the
ballot box is supposed to be put away
in the locker of the assistant super
intendent while the key to the box re-
sides in his desk. The company
bosses could change as many ballots
as they cared to-"
AS an active member Of the Zone
General committee, Taylor fought
hard for the porters but in the min
utes of this company union commit
tee his remarks in their behalf we're
always deleted. Company union COM
mittees never thought of holding a
session unless the local company boss
was present to open with prayer and
steer decisions for the company. Tay-
lor quickly learned that "superintend-
ents don't like plain talk, especially
from colored porters" and hence the
company union was a farce.
Taylor fought hard against the dis
charge of Roy Lancaster when he
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PORTER RISKS PENSION TO TELL
TRUTH ABOUT P. r. COMPANY UNION
By ROBERT W. DUNN, Federated Press.

81 Virginia
Pullman nearly
militant
Of Sleeping failed
Pullman within
Since the 1920 81 committee
Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal District
Committee