The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-18
SPIN Wild YARN
Of STRIKE END TO
BEFUDDLE 0ILMEN
Drivers Mass Meeting
Called By TUUL
(Continued fronl Paae Onel

(ContlnueG from rage One)
body yesterday morning, a fable
contradicted in the later evening
papers, which claimed that the men
would come back today-if they
swallowed the bait,
TUUL Mass Meet Today.
The Metropolitan Area Trade
Union Unity League. which from
the start of the struggle has been
urging the strikers to take the lead
ership into their own hands by form
ing rank and file strike committees,
has called a mass meeting Of strik-
ing truckmen in the oil, food. glass
and other industries for two o'clock
this afternoon at Miller's Grand As
sembly Hall, corner Of Grand and
Havermeyer SITS.
The sabotaging tactics of the A.
F. L. misleaders, who have failed to
call a single strike meeting, have
given out no reports on the progress
of the struggle. have repeatedly
shown their opposition to a general
sympathetic strike, have organized
no picket lines and have even re-
fused to set up local headquarters
near the affected areas, have more
than borne out correctness of the
T.U.UL.'s analysis of the struggle,
the truckmen admit.
Strikers Eyes Opened.
Today's mass meeting indicates
that the strikers have had their eyes
opened to the traitorous character
IF the A. F. L. labor takers, and
IRE determined to break away be-
fore the inevitable sellout is consum-
ated. Another noon meeting at 9th
and Wythe near the Pratt Plant of
the Standard Oil Co. will be held
today, the 7. U. L. L. announces,
as a mobilization rally for the ?
o'clock mass meeting.
When police captain AVedder Of
ne 92nd precinct station was no
flied yesterday that the T. U. U.
r. would hold another outdoor meet
g this morning, he at first refused
permission" for it. because it was
echeduled to take place in the strike
~one, cacred to the oil bosses. The
-. U. U. L, organizer insisted cn
the wor,zer5's right to peaceful as
ombly, and the Tammany captain
'inally backed down, but warned the
-. U. U. L. that he would not be
responsible" for any trouble" that
may occur, a yelled threat to send II
gorilla3 to break up the gathering.
Batray General Strike.
The bureaucratic machinery Of the
\. T. L. again successfully betrayed
he sentiment for a city-wide truck
ng walk-out Wednesday night when
at a meeting Of the general eZecv-
tive councils CT the Is Transfers /
Union locals, insistent proposals to
back up the oil tank truck drivers
were voted down"
The question CT a wholesale gro
Gerry drivers strike, as well as a
general waterfront strike, was to
have been taken up at closed meet
ing of the Transportation Trades
Council, representing $4,000 water
Gront workers and teamsters, but
Up to late hour last night, it had
rot been learned whether A. F. L.
misleader3 had also sabotaged that
meeting.
Lcagshorc9ne2 Aid Drivers.
Not awaiting official instructions,
longshoremen at four piers tied up
eleven ships yesterday, refusing to
load or unload trucks driven by
scabs of powered by scab gasoline,
aplendidly oxamplifying the SYM
pathetic spirit of the rank and file
throughout the city, a spirit which
will be centralized at the 7. U. U. L.
rias5 meet today.