The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
UNION OFFICIALS.
SELL OUT STRIKE
OF TRUCkDR|vERS.
S-Hour Day, Overtime
Demands Sold
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the bosses. At least $7,000,000
worth of perishables were going to
waste in the fruit terminals and
shipping yards of New York, Ho-
boken, Newburgh, Jersey City, Crux-
ton and other points; over 1000
workers had struck in sympathy
with the truckmen, with the posi-
bility that many more would follow;
the six big railroad lines serving the
city had announced an embargo on
all fruit and produce early yester-
day morning; I'd the splendid mill
fancy of the men, who showed no
signs of yielding to any kind of a
compromise up to the very hour of
the sell-out, made the ultimate sue
cess of their fight for terms already
conceded to drivers employed in
other branches of trucking virtually
inevitable.
Three conferences at which "all
interested parties except the strik-
ers" were represented were held on
Monday Then at secret meeting
at midnight, Mihal Kearins, presi-
dent of the market truckmen's as
ISOLATION, who had boosted when the
walk-out occurred that there are
more ways than one to break a
STRIKE" called in the union officials.
The misleaders afterward announced
that compromise terms had been
offered, which they refused" but
the connection between the secret
midnight meeting and the sell-out,
which followed yesterday, was i'm
mediately apparent to workers &C
quainted with A. F. L. methods.
Fear that the strikers would turn
on them if the betrayal was too
bare-faced caused the bosses and Of
ficials to agree on flat SIS weekly
increase, but this illusory gain will
be cancelled by forcing the truckmen
to work overtime at straight time.
The nine-h"ur day continues.
The Walker administration, true
to its strike-breaking role, had 1000
police patrolling the strike zones
along the Hudson on Monday
Walker had personally offered the
produce merchants to do all in his
power to bring the drivers back to
work early in the struggle, and his
strike-breaking expert, commissioner
of police Whalen, promised to put
policeman on every truck driven
by a scab.
A meeting between acting COVER
nor Lehman and representatives OF
the strikers had been arranged for
last night, in case the bosses failed
to buy up the union officials, show
ing tina THE state was preparing to
bring the strike to close by force.
Frances Perkins, state industrial
commissi ner, caused a similar meet
ing scheduled for Monday night to
be called off, feeling confident that
the betrayal would be completed
that day
The Pennsylvania; Erie; New
York Central; New Jersey Central;
Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern; and Lehigh Valley Railroads,
all of which announced at midnight
Monday that no further shipments
of fruit and produce would be ac-
cepted until the strike was ended,
lifted the embargo shortly after the
settlement" became known.
Only one or two flurries along the
waterfront were reported during the
three days Of the tie-up, including
one attempted scab delivery of vege-
tables from a market in West st.
With a militant rank and file
leadership, the struggle would I'M
questionably have gone forward to
victory, the Metropolitan Area Trade
Union Unity League said yesterday,
pointing to the sympathy strikes
and Local II of the Amalgamated
Food Workers, which instructed lts
members to refuse to handle fruit
and any perishables delivered by
scab drivers, as evidences that the
workers were solidly behind the
strikers.
But as the TUUL leaflet dis
tributed among the truck drivers
showed: "Your victory will be made
possible not in secret conferences be-
tween your officials and the city
politicians, but in the solidarity of
all white and Negro workers in the
struggle. Organize joint commit
tees with the dock workers and food
workers for victorious struggle"