The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-07
UNIONS, DEFENSE
SMASH AT TERROR
Meeting at Robins Dry
Dock Noon Today

NEW YORK. - The Red Hook
section of South Brooklyn is now the
scene of the most vicious campaign
of terror against workers since the
days Of the Mitchell Palmer raids. In
the past few weeks, hundreds of ma
tive and foreign-born unemployed
and part time workers have been
picked up by the police in coopera-
ton with Doak's immigration dicks
and held in police stations on the
flimiest charges Or on no charges at
all.
Longshoremen Organizing
This wave of persecution and ter
rorism is especially aimed at smash
ing the developing struggles Of en-
ployed and unemployed metal and
marine workers.
The longshoremen are in the midst
OF organization for a determined fight
fight to defeat the last wage cut
forced upon them by the shipowners
through the treachery of Joseph
Ryan and the International Long
6horemen Association officialdom.
Employed and part-time shipyardS
workers living in wretehed "shacks"
they built for themselves out of
iunked autos and tin cans on the
garbage dump, fittingly called Hoo
vervilleD have under the leadership
of the Metal Workers Unemployed
Council, demonstrated for relief and
sent a delegation to present their de-
mands to Welfare Commissioner
Taylor
Metal Union Meetings
In front of Robbins Dry Dock.
where these workers were formerly
employed, the Metal Workers Indus
trial Union has been holding noon
mass meetings attended by hundreds
OF workers, who eagerly accepted this
new militant unions program for a
united struggle with the unemployed
Tor unemployment insurance and
against wage-cuts. Many of these
workers joined the union as a result
OF the meetings.
Following the demonstration of the
unemployed workers recently, Hoo
YerVille was raided by the Tammany
police together with Doak's Repub-
liean immigration officers More than
sixty workers were arrested on the
charge of illegal entry, and most of
them we're held for deportation.
Preachers from the Scandinavian
Mission and Salvation Army sky pilots
are acting as special stoolpigeons
helping them pick out for deporta-
ton all those suspected of militant
activity.
Similar raids are being carried on
almost everyday. Last week res
taTant situated across the street
from Robbins Dry Dock was invaded
by the police. The 1875 workers who
were having their lunch were forced
to line up against the walls. After
bullying, threatening and mainland
ling, some of them were taken to the
police station and held for deporta-
ton. Raids nave been and sr9 still
being carried on in union halls and
gathering places of workingciass or
CARNATIONS, breadlines and factory
employment Offices, with more scores
of workers arrested
Mass Meeting Today
An open-air meeting under the
Joint auspices of the International
Labor Defense, New York District
the Metal Workers Industrial Union
and the Marine Workers Industrial
Union, will be held today at noon in
front of Robbins Dry Dock Erie
Basin, Brooklyn, to protest against
the wholesale raids of the police and
immigration authorities on workers
organizations and the arrests and at
tempted deportation of scores of I'M
employed and employed workers.
Send station addresses in for the
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