The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
By CARL REEVE

THE heroic struggle of the
L workers of Toledo sharp
ems the class struggle in the
United States, bringing it to
new level. The demands of
the Toledo workers are no
longer confined to the eco
nomic demands of one factory. The
entire working class population Of
Toledo is now face to face with a
general sympathetic strike, in which
the elementary political demands
for the withdrawal of the national
guards, and against compulsory ar
bitration of the governments MIRA.
and Labor Board DEGREES. are inter-
woven with the workers economic
demands.
The large mass of the Toledo
workers are involved in the strug-
gle. The Toledo workers are now
striking against the Labor Board
DEGREES, the orders of Roosevelt's
government mediators, against the
governments New Deal program of
the open shop, Of company unions,
of compulsory arbitration, and the
outlawing of strikes.
Unprecedented Militancy
For five days the mass picket lines
of the Toledo workers with two of
their number killed, with many
wounded--in the face of rifle fire.
poison gas and bayonet attacks of
the guards, are heroically fighting
for their elementary right to organ
ize, to picket. The Toledo workers
are fighting the sharpened attacks
of the government, and its weapon
Of increased fascist terror; are fight
ing against government decreed
open shop and company union. and
for the right to strike.
The workers are fighting against
the starvation which the Hunger
Program Of the New Deal has
brought.
Perspective of Broader Struggle
The Toledo struggle has found a
response in the entire working class
OF the country. 1t has electrified the
masses in all industries. The heroic
fight of the Toledo workers, leaves
an indelible mark upon the history
of the class struggle in the United
States. Together with the situation
in the steel industry, with the Min
neapolis struggle, with the fight OF
the Alabama workers and the long
shor2men it opens the perspective
of drive in the direction of
nationwide strike.
The increased revolutionary char
acter of the struggles also shows in
the fact that strikes which originally
were economic, are rapidly converted
into political in the union of the
economic ana political strikes, when
the workers simultaneously put for
ward economic and political de-
mands, in still greater interWeay-
ing Of economic and political strikes,
in a more rapid transition TO gen
eral strikes and from strikes to rev.
dictionary demonstrations on the
streets, to barricade fights against
the whole apparatus of bourgeois
violence :" &c. I. Magazine-V
10-No. 24.)
The great upsurge of fighting
force of the Toledo workers presages
deeper and broader struggle soon
to come. The whole class struggle
is now sharpened, and widespread
class battles are the immediate per-
spective in the United States. This
raising of the class struggle to
higher stage, to a level OF broader
struggles of the workers, brings with
it, the daily, almost hourly, increase
in fascination, the sharpened attack
of the government on the workers.
The Communist Party of Toledo
has correctly called for this general
sympathetic strike. The Commu-
mist Party emphasizes that the To-
ledo workers must Immediately
organize local struggles, on a fac
tory scale, basing these struggles OF
the economic demands of the work
ers of that factory and trade, as well
as for the city-wide demands for
withdrawal of the national guard
and an end of the sharpened fascist
terror.
The demands put forward by the
Communist Party for the struggle
include: continued mass picketing.
withdrawal of all armed forces, i'm
mediate granting of all the strikers
demands, the closing of the plants
until the demands are granted. It
is on the basis of sympathy strikes
of the workers in each factory, at
the same time formulating their own
factory demands, that the struggle
must be spread.
Spread Of Fascist Terror
The rapid increase in fascist meas
ures nor going forward on the part
of the Roosevelt government, the