The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-15
CITY GOVT LETS
TERROR ON
TRUCK STRIKERS
1900 Massed to Aid the
Bosses
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fluffy, Is, bystander, was shot in
the back while attempting to make
for cover and is reported to be in
critical condition.
Immediately one of the patrolmen
"escorting" the truck opened fire on
the strikers, and within Is minutes
40 more Tammany police had ar
rived on the scene. Meanwhile a
number of truckmen, attracted by
the firing, had appeared to protect
their 80 fellow workers from the
terror. The autos manned by thugs
drove directly at two cars in which
strikers were riding, climbing onto
the pavements and endangering the
lives of all workers on the street.
Crashing head-on into a strikers
sedan, one of the gangster cars was
crumpled into a mass of twisted tin,
and the gorillas temporarily gave
way. But reinforced by the police
and additional squads of thugs they
theoretically" cleared the street of
strikers, thrashing all on whom they
could lay their hands.
Club TUUL Organizer.
In one attack a striker was so vi
ciously beaten by police sergeant,
No. 1130, that his face was bloody
pulp. George E. Powers and Henry
Sazar of the Trade Union Unity
League, 1928 Union Square, were
helping to organize a picket line
when Powers was attacked by po-
lice. The T.U.U.L. organizers stood
their ground, urging the strikers to
insist upon their right to picket and
to establish picket lines with strike
signs, and in the end the police were
forced to withdraw.
At the same time that the picket
ing demonstration was being at
tackled, the T.U.U.L. organizers say
that scores Of gorillas were mobiliz-
ing before the Pratt Plant under the
leadership Of Merrick Nittley, re-
publican leader of the 14th Assem-
bly, District. 1t has already been
established that Tammany Halls
14th District headquarters is a mob
ilization point for the gunner of the
Little Augie," Yale and De Vito
gangs who are being used by the
Rockefeller and other oil interests
to smash the struggle. Also, gun
men have been seen riding in cars
belonging to the Tammany leaders
of the district.
Armies "Guard" Trucks.
The Standard Oil bosses are now
assigning three carloads of gorillas
to each scab-driven truck, in addi-
ton to armbed scab helpers" two
policemen in armored motorcycles
furnished with machine guns and
two plainclothes men trailing the
truck in police automobile. More
than 1900 men, Whalen admits, are
now on rike-breaking duty.
The Trade Union Unity League,
in a statement issued yesterday,
scores the menace caused to workers
by the Tammany police protection
Of the strike-breaking thugs, as
demonstrated in the shooting TO
fluffy.
More than 5000 filling station
employees in Brooklyn, recently or
ganized into a union affiliated with
the Truckmen's Union, are prepar-
ing to strike, it was learned late
yesterday. If they walk out, prac-
tically every filling station in
Brooklyn will be closed down.
The struggle threatens to spread
to the waterfront, despite the des-
perate efforts of A. F. L. officials
to prevent a widespread walk-out.
The longshoremen who handle the
gasoline barges are ready to join
the strike in support of the oil
truckmen, it became known yester-
day. Since the beginning of the
struggle, the T. U. U. L. has been
urging the strikers to bring out the
rail, waterfront, filling station and
oil depot workers in a united strug-
gle.
The new fighting trades union cen
ter has called a mass meeting OF
strikers today at noon at the corner
Of N. 18th and Berry SITS. The Lea
que is urging upon the strikers the
necessity of forming rank and file
strike committees in each struck
yard and station, and thus prepare
to Illustrate the sell-out maneuvers
of the A. F. L. officials.
Another step toward the impend-
ing betrayal was taken by Michael
Casual, vicc-president of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Transfers
and Chauffeurs yesterday, when he
publicly appealed" to Mayor Wal
ker to step into the struggle and
"protect the city against the in
creasing violence"-either by break