The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-10
TAMMANY THUGS
USED UPON 1000
STRIKING 0ILMEN
Gunner Use Tammany
Center, Cars
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belling was the charge made yes
terday by the Metropolitan Trade
Union Unity League, the new mill
tant labor center, which is urging
the strikers to unite with the depot
workers and filling station men for
a victorious struggle, and to organ
ize workers defense corps in order
to protect themselves against the
police and gangster terror.
A number of the strike-breaking
thugs have been seen roaming the
streets in automobiles belonging to
Tammany Alderman Joseph Der
mody of the 18th assembly district
and Joseph Lentil, Tammany leader
of the district, known as the Mus
solini of the North Side" proving
conclusively that Tammany Hall is
working hand in glove with the oil
barons, the underworld and the po-
lice to smash the strike, the T. U.
U. L. stated.
Furthermore, the Walker admin
istration has placed policemen on
trucks driven by scabs, and has de-
tailed mounted cossack to follow
each truck and club the strikers
into submission. In addition to the
uniformed and plain clothes gun
men, the oil bosses are employing
agents of the Val O'Farrel Detec-
tive Agency to beat up strikers
caught speaking to scabs.
Oil truck drivers working for the
Sinclair Oil Company, Gulf Refin-
ing, Tidewater Oil, Utility Oil,
Warner-Quinlan and Ajax Petrole-
UNI Companies have gone out in
sympathy with the Standard Oil
drivers, with the possibility that
$50 men employed by the Burns
Coal Co., who are affiliated with
Local 553, may join the walk-out
shortly.
The immediate demands of the
men are the eight-hour day, time
and a half for overtime, double
time for Sundays and holidays, g.
standard wage scale OF S47.5G and
recognition OF the union.
Under present conditions the
standard work day is one of 10
hours, the weekly wage ranging
from $2S to S35 with $50 as the
average. Actually the truckmen are
forced to work from IL to 16 hours,
setting Supper money" for over
time In some cases they. get rs
cents to S1.50 for hauling an extra
load which means from 4 to hours
additional work.
On Sundays they are given the
choice of accepting s.2.95 for g full
days work or of being fired if they
refuse to report when ordered to do
nc,
The Metropolitan Trade Union
Liberty League yesterday distri-
huted among the strikers copies of
a leaflet warning the truckmen that
The officials Of the Transfers
Union, Of which you are members,
have IN the past proven to be people
who bertay you in the last moment,
lust as they betrayed the demands
of the food truck drivers for the
eight-hour day and time and a half
for overtime" The T. U. U. L.
urged the men oform depot COM
nittees, draw tn workers employed
in the depots and filling stations
into the strike, and carry on a mill
tant rank and file struggle.
The leaflet pledged the strikers
the full support of the t. U. U. L.
and invited them to join the League,
the only organization which is
fighting for the solidarity of white
and Negro workers.
One day after the struggle of the
1000 fruit truck drivers had been
sold out by union officials, the more
than 5000 food handlers employed