The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16
USE CITY TRUCKS
TO SCAB ON TANK
TRUCK STRIKERS
Garage, Station Toilers
For 100 PC Struggle

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situation have been given out. Re
eminent is growing because of the
\, F. L. policy of keeping the men
4 the dark.
Tuul Meet
The T. U. U. L. held a strike meet
ng at N. 9th and Berry SITS. at noon
esterday which was we'll attended.
George overs, Henry Sazar and John
ii Santo, organizers for the new
lighting trade union center, ad-
iressed the truckmen on the neces-
ity Of taking the struggle out of
he hands of the A. F. L. officialdom,
demanding an accounting from the
trike leaders" spreading the fight
o he waterfront and the railroad
criminals and effecting a complete
ie-up of fuel deliveries here. They
also stressed the Importance of or
Tanizing workers defense corps to
combat The gorilla and police terror.
The speeches were received with
approval, as were the T. U. U. l..
l.aflets and Daily Workers distrib-
ted after the meeting. Knowing
hat the Daily is the only newspaper
lighting in their interests, the first
question of those who know the 7.
u. U. L. organizers by sight is:
"Hey! Got some more of those
oapers?" Mnay Of the workers take
eeveral copies of the Daily to hand
1T to fellow-strikers the I. U. U.
y. says. The League plans to hold
~oon meetings daily in the strike
area.
That New York workers are solid
~ behind the strikers is evident on
very hand. The drivers of the
lockwood Chocolate Co. have walked
aut in support of them. The Coop
~rative Restaurant, left wing cafe
aria located at 26 Union Square,
as refused to receive consignment7
rom the Austin-Nichols Co., MAX
&c of Sunbeam Food, because the
90 drivers of the company have
,ined the oil truckmen, and because
svmpathizes with the struggle Of
Ae latter 100 Per cent.
Sporadic attacks on strikers thru
out the city again marked the strike
c.terday. along with gradual les
sning of the city's fuel supply.
Tichael Donella. president of the
malgamated Taxi Owners Asso-
alton, said that "to deny that there
: shortage is foolish" The Stand
ID Oil claims that its deliveries are
> per cent Of normal, while the
erikers put the figure at 80 per
mt. but Donalla asserted that even
Ne latter is IAN exaggeration."
Two more independent distributors
ere signed up by the Teamsters'
Union officials, bringing the total of
nall oil concerns that have CAPT
dated to the demands of the
srikers pto TO- Here again the
rike 'leaders" are steamrolling
lie wishes of the rank and file, in
.eparation for complete betrayal,
the truckmen have been insisting
4 q collective agreement.
Three gunner have been ARREST
!" by the Tammany police for
arrying revolvers in a hasty move
cover up the Tammany-under-
orld-ropublicsn strike-breaking al
ance. AS it is we'll known to the
trikers that Merck Nittley, re-
lblican leader of the 14th assembly
strict. has personally organized
he mob of gunner at the Pratt
ranch, that Tammany's 14th dis
riot headquarters is the hang out
many gangsters, and that goril-
IS have been using cars belonging
the district leaders. the arrest"
col nobody but the politicians them
elves.
Strikers claim that Nittley has
cen offered $4,000 by the Stand
ard Oil bosses to break the strike.
Sixty strikebreakers. employed by
he Standard Oil in Brooklyn, who
ave been getting SIS day for
cabbery, have gone on strike for
go. where the original workers were
aid only So. They attacked squad
IF a dozen policemen and tried to
ire a garage, but were gently put
down by the police.