The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-01
MAYOR NOMINEE
EXPOSES ROLE OF
3 BOSS PARTIES
Strikebreaking Record
in Many Struggles

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Tammany banker. Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor Lehman. turned over $4,000
to the Socialist" Schlesinger, for
this purpose"
Weinstone then briefly summar-
lied the strikebreaking activities of
Tammany Hall, the Republic Party
and the Socialist Party and A, F,
sf I. as follows:
attraction workers: Two strikes
N 1926 and 1927, broken by Tam
many Hall with the active co-opera
ton .of the A. F. of L. so-called
union. the Amalgamated Associa-
ton Of Street and Electric Railway
Employees. Tammany police were
used to terrorize strikers and pro-
toct scabs and thugs.
Food workers: 1900 workers ar
rosted in the recent cafeteria strike;
hundreds beaten; one of the most
sweeping strikebreaking injunctions
in labor history issued by a Tam
many judge. The A. F. of L., the
socialist" United Hebrew Trades
and the yellow Socialist Forward,
tried, though without success, to
stab the strike in the back.
Truck drivers: One thousand
police and hundreds Of gangsters
modified against the striking
oil truckmen. Both TG0lmony and
Republican district political cap
!qins mere stationed at the oil DIS
iyibntiop ceuteys to assign police
cid Thugs 5or strikebreaking duty.
The A. F. Of L. union, the Inter
national Brotherhood of Transfers
and Chaaffeurs, after shadow-box-
ing for g while in the pages of the
capitalist press, refused to call g
General strike and betrayed the mil
liant oil truckmen.
"Shoo workers: The Republican
u. S. Department of Labor has
.oired with the Tammany police de-
par1ment ard the bosses IN a drive
ooainst militant workers and the
i,ogses in a drive against militant
workers and the fighting lndepend-
~. Shoe Workers Union. Tam
,Yany polica, acting as investigators
FOR the Department Of Labor, at
tempted to put through an 'ahen
registration canpaign only IN those
-3ops havinT agreements with the
1rdapendent Shoe Workers Union.
AZ the same time Commissioner
Charles Wood, of the Labor De-
partment, has sent letters to all
bosses having contracts with the
union urging them to break their
contracts because the leaders OF the
union are Communists.
"This black record" Weinstone
Continued, Shows that all three cap
;talist parties have been united IN
.,.rikebreaking, in terror against the
workers. in attacks on their living
standards which have as their ui-
innate aim the cowing Of the work
crs and their industrial conscrlptlcn
into the capitalist war machine. Inc
Republican party only supertlclally
annears to have played lesser part
in strikebreaking because it has not
been in power locally and has not
SO strong base in the trade unions
&c the Socialist Party. Actually
the opposite is true. Every anu
working class activity Of the gov
orpaent is bound up with the gen
oral anti-working class activity Oh .l
the national Government. Ana u
;s the Republican Administration IN
Washington that has given the
c4r;lebreaking cue to its two cap
italist brothers in New York CITY
La Guardia in office would be just
as ruthless as Walker in attacks on
the workers and their militant lead
or. the Communist Party. The A
F. of L. whichever candidate it sup
r2orts. whether it is Walker CCentrai
Trades and Labor CounciD or
Thomas UNITED Hebrew Trades')
upporte WI per cent. the capitalist
error drive against the 2oorF'ng
class.
"Let no worker be uner any IL
lusions concerning the Soclallst
Party, which is the most dangerous
onemy because it still can serve cap,
italism best by posing as a labor
party. Not only its strikebreaklng
Ole in the past, but its program in
the present elections show that 1t
stands on the same platform with
the Democratic and Republican par
lies on the question of capitalist ter
ror as on ali fundamental issues. A
ecent cartoon in the New Leader,
9. P. organ, is entitled, "Free the
Police!" The police are too weak,
he Soeialis. Party says; they are
till in chains, Commissioner Whal-
"a agrees. He has organized "a
secret spy service and airplane po-
Ice for use primarily against work
ers. He is pleasing all three cap
salist parties and their masters, the
oapitalist class.
"Only in the Communist Party is
fighting in the present election, as in
ne past, against strikebreaking and
capitalist terror. Only the Com.
-unist Party fights against what
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