The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-14
AFL MISLEADERS
BLOCK CITY-W|DE
TRUCKERS STRIKE
$4,000 Drivers Against
Using Scab Gas
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necessary to call them out on strike.
think the men will walk OUT de-
spite all the official efforts to stop
them.
The strike would involve drivers
IN the following branches of truck
ing: grocery, flour, furniture, paper
oox, chickne market, building ma
terials, coal, wood, gasoline, milk,
railway express laundry, piano
moving, transfer and baggage. the
atrical transfer, cleaning and dye
ing and even funeral hearse driving,
The 1000 fruit and produce truck
drivers, whose strike was recently
sold out by the same Transfers
Union officialdom that is feverishly
working to dissipate the general
strike sentiment, are also ready to
walk out, accompanied by 5000 or
more food handlers employed in the
produce markets.
Strike Spreads
The strikers declared yesterday
that 700 more drivers have quit
their posts N sympathy with the de-
nnands of the oil truckmen, including
200 members of the Grocery Truck
Drivers, who transport food from
jobbers to retail stores, and 500 of
the 5000 organized Newark gaso-
line truckmen.
Several clashes between strikers
and scabs were reported over the
week-end, although A. F. L. betray-
ers have rodered pickets to turn the
other cheek when attacked by strike
breakers, police or gangsters. Hun
dreds of the latter, who use Tam
many Halls 14th assembly district
headquarters as a mobilization point,
and at whose disposal have been
placed autos belonging to the dis
trict, are in the employ of the
Standard Oil Company and other
affected distributors. Carloads of
them, accompanied by mounted,
motorcycle and foot police, and
armed private detectives, trail the
scab-driven trucks; they "guard"
the property of the oil barons by
yieiously breaking up picket lines
and assaulting any strikre unfor-
tuaate enough to be caught alone in
the strike zones.
Scabs Provoke Pickets
Three scabs who provoked piekets
near the Pratt Plant of the Stand
ard Oil Company on Saturday had
to be taken to the Greenpoint Hos
pital for treatment. Later in the
day three other scabs, unloading
two trucks at a Standard Oil filling
station, at N. 18th and Franklin
SITS. tainted a number of strikers
who were passing in an automobile.
A brick fight followed and while a,
crowd of workers collected to cheer
on the strikers, the scabs and their
Tammany guards fled to ware
house of the Austin Nichols Co.,
THcIC OOO uIlNCtS idhS HdlASu UuG
in sympathy with the oil truckmen.
The strikers are seriously eonsid-
ering the Metropolitan Area Trade
Union Unity Leagues urgent advice
to form workers defense corps for
protecting pickets against the COM
hined terror of the Tammany po-
lice, seabs, gunner and private
detectives" Also preparations foT
the impending union sell-out against
which the T. U. U. L. has warned
the men are being made under their
eyes. In addition to forestalling the
general strike, the A. F. l.. takers
have signed agreements with two
independent distributing companies,
the Crystal Corp. and the Parker
Oil Corp, both of Brooklyn, in the
face of the strikers demands for a
collective agreement.
The misleaders are now simulat-
ing a disagreement among them
selves, the better to facilitate the