The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22


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and terror, all in the name Of the
MIRA"
To this whitening expose Of the ter
ror directed against striking workers,
Roosevelt replied:
Some people call me Gear, dicta-
tor, so forth. but cannot control
the local police forces"
But Roosevelt overlooked the slight
fact that gIlnman rule in Utah was
supported by the United States Army,
with the army shipping truckloads Of
guns and ammunition to the strike
breakers.
A. j. Music elaborated the points in
the document presented to Roosevelt,
stating that the signers and their or
CARNATIONS, seeing the growing men
ace of the attacks on the workers and
the rights of the workers, noticed that
the employers were immune from
penalties.
with all emphasis at our COM
mand, Mr.. President" Dunno said,
I'VE wish to impress upon you the
seriousness of the situation today
for Negro and white workers fight
ing for the right to organize, strike
and picket in the face of the most
widespread use of private and po-.
lice forces, state and local police
and troops against them. We pro-
test against these atrocities"
Exposing the lynch gang murder
and terror in the South against Ne
gro workers, Dunno said:
Never since reconstruction days
has there been such widespread muir
derous attacks on Negroes in the
South. Georgia is trying to revive
the instruction law to crush white
and Negro workers in their attempts
to organize.
"Angelo Herndon, Negro
worker, was sent to prison for 10
years for trying to educate and
organize his people. Herndon is a
Communist, it is true, but that is
not yet crime in America"
Roosevelt interjected, saying
"You bet it's not"
But by this gesture he did not
cover up the fact that workers who
belong to the Communist Party are
having their citizenship rights re-
voked, and that the Federal gov
eminent, through all of its agents,
as well as through NRA concilia-
tors, is helping the bosses fight
against Communists because they
lead strikes and are organizing the
workers. In Utah strikers are being
charged with criminal syndicalism.
At the same time, he conveniently
forgot the action of his Secretary
of Labor Perkins deporting work
ers for the crime of being mem
bers of the Communist Party.
"In the new situation of terror
in the South" Dunno said, eve no
longer see community lynchings
because of the decrease of race
prejudice among the workers, but
the terror is carried on by small
organized bands with the protec-
ton of the authorities"
When the President said he
agreed with this estimate, Dunno
Immediately challenged him, SIN
such a situation, with the great
powers given you, you should make
public statement on this of the
greatest Importance.
But there was no reply to this
challenge.
Music then spoke of the new
menace of injunctions under the
NRA and the proposal of the docu-
ment presented to the President
regarding the rights of minorities.
"A new American labor movement
is forming as result Of the working
class maturing under the heavy blows
Of the crisis" Dunno pointed out.
"At present, this labor move
ment is neither the Trade Union
Unity League nor the American
Federation of Labor. But newt
ably there is in formation organi-
cations OF the right, center and of
the left.
"The new labor movement"
Dunno added ''is forming from
below with a new leadership de-
veloping from the ranks"
Dunno pointed out that the
document handed to the president
sets forth that movement should
proceed without the interference
or coercion of the government,
with the workers themselves to
make the choice.
Roosevelt did not commit him
self on these points.
Give my regards to Norman
Thomas" Roosevelt said to Dunno
ust as the delegation was leaving.
Norman Thomas is not a par /,
cular friend of mine" Dunno re.
}lied, to the laughter of number