The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04

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ers with a ruling that employers
in the maritime trades are under no
legal compulsion to organize for
collective bargaining with their
striking workers"
In other words the Roosevelt ad-
:ninistration has ruled that the en-
pIoyers do not have to recognize the
unions or even negotiate with their
representatives. The federal gov
ernment therefore has stepped in
with an open strike breaking de-
cision.
Scab Board
The Labor Relations" Board, APP
pointed by Roosevelt and headed by
Archbishop Hanna has tried from
the beginning to split the ranks Of
the strikers-to isolate the long
shoremen and drive them back to
work without settlement with the
other nine unions on strike in slp-
port Of the longshoremen and for
their own wage and recognition de-
mands.
The Industrial Association, the
strike breaking organization of the
San Francisco waterfront employ
ers, has delivered an u1timatun =
the terms of which are unmistakable
to any one familiar with the strike
tactics of American employers and
with the bloody history of labor
struggles on the Pacific Coast. The
Industrial Association announces it.
self as the guardian of the streets
of San Francisco, and it's harbor, in
the interests of "the people" Two
weeks ago, the Industrial Associa-
ton states in its recent letter to
Mayor Rossi and Chief of Police
Quinn, it accepted the responsible
ity to restore traffic" It's ulti-
matum states:
1--WE are :. commencing opera
tions to restore the streets of San
Francisco to its citizens, confident
that the Police Department will
afford full protection for the
peaceful use thereof by unarned
drivers"
"The Association takes the stand
the harbor belongs to the people
and is, therefore, to be construed
the same as city streets as traffic
arteries"
Behind these elaborate legal f1c-
lions there are the armed forces OF
the city and state, the fascist bands
and the private armies of the en-
ployers.
The employers and their govern
ment are out to crush by manning
and murder, by a series Of raids ano
mass arrests, the militant labor
movement that has developed dur
ing the strike. They have already
struck at the Communist Party
whose members are active in the
strike and it's relief and defense Or
CARNATIONS, an d whose Pacific
Coast paper, the Western Worker
is the official organ of the united
front strike committee.
Try Gangsterism
Gangster elements organized BY
American Legion leaders have
smashed the windows of the Office!
of the Western Worker and the In.
ternational Labor Defense. There
have been many arrests, especially
of members of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union, which is in the
leadership of the seamens section
of the strike. Judge Steiger ha!
ordered the arrest of all signers O
kilograms, protesting the arbitrary
arrests.
In Seattle armed guards hired BY
the Standard Oil Company have
fired on strikers, killing one. 4
member of the M. w. I. U. and hi
wife, who was cooking for tn,
strikers, have been given 60 ant
3O-day sentences for "having club
In their house."
George P. West, writing from Sal
Francisco to the New York Time
for July l, said:
"When President Roosevelt ap-
pointed his National Longshore-
mems Board the Industrial
Association already had imported
strikebreakers and armed guards,
hired non-union trucks, leased
warehouses and reached an un-
derstanding with Acting Governor
Merriam that the National Guard
would be available IL needed"
They we're and are ready for
the use of civil war methods
against the workers.
Red Scare
The Pacific Coast papers, espe
cially the California press, is cor
centrating on Red Scare TIL