The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-17

united front will defeat the Rookie
fellers and the other oil companies
The oil truckmen must not be left
to fight alone.
coil truckmen, food truckmen
/ garagemen, dockmen!
Form a rank and file united front
to win the eight-hour day, organ
.ization Of the unorganized. Spread
the strike. Maintain your right to
strike and picket. Fight the vio-
lence Of the thugs and police De-
feat the Rockefeller oil magnates
Form rank and file united front
strike committees over the heads OF
your officials"
Under these slogans District 2 OF
the Communist Party last night is
sued the following statement on the
strike:
The strike of the oil truckmen
who are now putting up a stiff fight
for the eight-hour day, increased
wages, extra pay for overtime and
for union recognition, provides the
most recent example of the role OF
the bosses city government as a
strikebreaking agency.
Walkers Police Commissioner
Whalen, mouthpiece of the corrupt
Tammany Hall city government, in
the oil mems strike as in other
struggles, has brazenly stepped for
ward as the gangster-in-chief of the
powerful oil bosses.
/ Whalen, faithful tool of the en-
ployers, has placed a copy alongside
the driver of every scab truck, with
a motorcycle policeman behind each
truck. Groups 0 farmed policemen
surround the depots, threatening the
strikers. Mouted policemen tear
thru the strike areas terrorizing the
strikers and strike sympathizers
/ Several have been severely injured
as a result of police and gangster
attacks, and one sympathizer is now
in a hospital in a critical condition.
Hiding his strikebreaking activi-
ties under a cloak Of hypocricy
1 Whalen engages in shadowboxing
with the powerful oil corporations
by making a fake gesture in which
he warns them that they must STOP
the use of guerillas." At the same
time he announces that he is in.
creasing the police force so that now
1000 are being used to break the
strike. Recently, Whalen asked fol-
5000 policemen to be added to the
city force. This was an anticipation
of the growing militant struggles Of
the workers arising from increasing
attacks by the bosses upon theil
! living standards and of the growing
determination of the workers tt
meet these attacks.
Walker Aids Bosses.
Walkers government is thus pro.
viding the oil companies with uni
formed strikebreakers to add to the
army of private thugs and gueril
las, whom the city government pro,
tects and whose violence against the
strikers it encourages.
The democratic party of Tam
many Hall is not alone in this oper
attack on the striking oil workers
In the strike zones in Brooklyn botf
republican and democratic leaders
openly act as guardian angels" Of
the hired gangsters. who sweep thru
the streets in speeding automobiles
Haunting guns, blackjacks anC
| knives.
The republican headquarters il
the 18th District, Brooklyn, is the
mobilization point for the gangsters
and the republican local leader, Mer.
rick Nittley, is in active war service
for the open shop, Undertaking Of
corporations. He assigns the cop!
and gangsters to take their place.
alongside the scabs.
Spread the strike!
Bring out the garage, food truck
men! Do it yourselves!
Your leaders prevent the other
workers from joining you!
Organize Negro workers as well
as white workers!
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