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

T. L. L. l.. Meet
The T. U. U. L. yesterday held
another non meeting at 9th st. and
Wythe Ave. Brooklyn, within a
block of the Pratt Plant, and fair
sized crowd of strikers listened at
tentiveiy as George Powers, and Ben
Tntrator of the League, and Harold
Williams and Lewis, of the Amer
lean Negro Labor Congress, exposed
the underhanded methods by which
The A. F. L. fat boys are conducting
the strike, urged the unity of white
and Negro workers in widespread
struggle and attacked the socialist,
democratic and republican politi-
clans as the governmental tools Of
the bosses.
Many of the truckmen gave their
names and addresses to the 7. U. U.
L. organizers, asking that further
information on the League and its
fighting program be sent them.
They expressed admiration for the
fearlessness with which the Daily
Worker is championing their strike,
and admitted that the A. F. L. pol
icy of carrying on the struggle be-
hind closed bureaucratic doors was
disgusting them.
Demand Acticn.
They are demanding action from
the officials, a strike headquarters
near the center of the struggle, reg
ular meetings and full reports on
the situation.
The T. U. U. L. speakers also
showed I'D the gesture of the Rookie
Teller, Sinclair and Mellon bosses
IN withdrawing" the hordes of gun
men who have been terrorizing the
strikeTs under the direction of Tam
many and republican politicians.
The carloads of gangsters no longer
trail scab-driven tank cars; their
places on the trucks have been
aiken by uniformed gorillas, the
Tammany police. The thugs now
~oar the streets ION their own
ooking for chances to slug stray
-trikars and if apprehended the oil
losses can simply deny that they
ere on the oil strike-breaking pay
roll.
One gorilla, toting a semi-ma-
hine gun. was ARRESTED" yesterday
o,nG will be punished by having his
license. made out in Erie years ago,
revoked. The Sullivan law applies
only to workers.
The city government is a strike
>reaking agency he city trucks OF
the department of plant and struc-
lures are now being loaded and
brought to filling stations to help
companies crippled by the strike.
The Tammany police have I'M
laashed a reign Of terror against The
striking oil men. This was to be
expected. In every struggle Of the
workers the capitalist governmnt
rushes in to aid the bosses. his was
seen in the struggles Of the needle
trades. cafeteria and shoe workers
in New York. 1t is seen in the
strike of the New Orleans carmen
and the growing, militant struggles
of the workers in the cotton mills
of the South. 1t is seen in the at
tempt to railroad seven active tex
tile workers in Gastonia to living
deaths in prison cells.
Three Boss Parties.
The democratic, republican ana
socialist parties are the parties OF
the bosses. The socialist praty and
the socialist party trade union
bureaucrats have been using thugs
and gangsters to beat up and as
sault militant rank and file workers
who have been fighting against COM
many unionism, for the organization
of the unorganized, for better living
conditions.
The A. F. of L. chiefs have re
peatedly surrendered the strikes OF
the workers; they work hand IN
hand with the bosses against the
rank and file, and are now prepar-
ing to betray the oil workers. Dur
ing the two weeks that the strike
has been on, not single meeting
has been called by the A. F. OF L..
officials. This is part of the prep
aration for complete surrender 70
the oil bosses. Cashel, vice-presl-
dent of the Transfers Union, has
already called for arbitration" by
the CAPITALIST strikebreaking agency,
the State Department OF LABOR
This is the usual trick of the labor
hureaucrats to destroy militant
strike. Justin Grain, whom Cashel
wants to "arbitrate" the strike is
an Injunction judge who sold out the
interests of the building trades
workers last spring and is now the
candidate for district attorney OF
the democratic party which is now
using police to break the oil men
strike.
spread the Strike. Form United
Front!
Fellow workers, the oil truckmen
are fighting the battle of all work
ers for shorter hours, union organ
;zation. and improved living stand
ards. Thsi fight can be decisively
won if the food truckmen. garage
men and dockmen will rally to the
support Of the oil truckmen. Inc
bosses nave their united front
They are rallying their froces IN