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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17

THERE can be no doubt that these
1 men kept their feet firmly
| planted on the ground. For twice
within five years the Industrial As
ISOLATION raised a million dollars,
and in 1925 it levied assessments on
the merchants and manufacturers
of San Francisco to pay for its bit
ter fights against the carpenters,
molders, cigar workers, taxi men,
garment workers, metal and other
unions. Here are some of the cor
porations that contributed to one
of these funds to help smash the
unions. All of the following gave
at least $4,000 at one crack:
Alexander and Baldwin, Amer
lean Factors Co., Bank of California
(Sl5,000 Bethlehem Shipbuilding
Corp. $4,000, California an d
Hawaiian Sugar Co. (S25, 000), Cali
fornia Packing Co.. Croker Ma
tional Bank, Hawaiian Commercial
and Sugar Co, Matson Navigation
Co., Market Street Railway Co,
Mercantile Trust Co., Pacific Gas
and Electric Co. (s15, 000), Santa Fe
Railroad Co. ($l5, 600, Southern
Pacific Railroad Co. (s30,00O, Pa
cifie Oil Co., j. D. e. A. B. Spreckels
Co. (s25, 00O, Standard Oil Co.
($30,000), Union Oil Co. (S15, 000)
Wells Fargo National Bank (s15,-
000, Associated Oil Co. (s15, 1000
An article by Labor Research Asso-
citation elsewhere in this issue in
dicates how closely most of these
corporations are tied in with the
big shipping interests of the West
Coast.
In the strikes which it tried to
smash, the stool pigeons of the In
duStrisl Association "dreamers" re-
sorted to every form of violence. For
example, in the molders' strike of
1926, A. j. Macdonald, employed by
the Mundell Detective Agency, en-
ployed in turn by the Industrial
Association, made an affidavit stat
ing that "Mundell told me that we
had to go out and get some union
leaders" He testified that he and
others were furnished with riflef
equipped with Maxim silencer~
were ordered to trail an,
Frank Brown, secretary
Molders' Union"
And James Edward Noblet, also
an employee of the Mundell agency,
in an affidavit, testified that Mum
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Murder in Full-Dress

S usual
provided the oympian New York
whose attack the strike less mderous because
its restrained" and dgnihed stodgy English style
Holding City," The Times whimpers that
e obvious and avowed aim Of this united movement is to
hardship the Of the city that the authorities
will yield the demands Of the strikers The assumption seems to
children of the quit work will not
from the lack of food and other necessaries
touching of the for the wives
children of the who quit work. somewhat as
prise course consistent with the Times interest in the
millions of unemployed and their families From reading
period years that their interest in
the working has extended beyond THE 100 Neede Cases
every which incidentally has paid for itself times
the form of promotion for the paper0
Does pretend ignorant the fact that
their wives and children the most potent
strikers the to face the terror that
the hpowners and their state apparatus have modified against
them?
There no law prevent thing" complains
Times referring the San Francisco General Strike Is there law
prevent millions result
capitalist Of which the Times sd
a defender?
There can be no doubt that way
against the steadygon labor unions
already public sympathy continues the Times The
bewaig the that the buucrats of the San
Central Trades and Labor Council compelled to bow
to pressure in neat least ohicialWith the
general strike movement
The Times dips into its stock of ready-ade hunanitaanis
speak strikers keep
plies hospitals children This reminiscent of the kind of
described wildly the of and children
well as the bombing of hospitals by the Huns
IN Sunday history that
delve history and
Times the of
reporting happenings these
struggles
IT, 877exactly 81 tedaythe New
reporting the railroad strike which cenvng
following headlines RAILROAD EMPLOYEES
ON STRIKE-FOOLISH BRAKENIEN ON THE
BALTIMORE AND OHIO ROAD-CAUsE TROUBLE" my
emphasis.
but its technique Of strike
the find in yesterdays editorial the
that full liberty foolish things
their folly Gdy emphasis.
the earlier
Friday July 27 1877 ore
Conflicts Chicago Francisco
Between the Citizens and the Hoodum Rioters
headline "a Fighting in Chicago
Frequent Fights with the Police MiIaFom
Many Wounded"
Reporting railroad strike state the
the Strikers Lodged
in Jai--The Sunerngs of the Military"
Press Only in First Inning
THE bourgeois press anrike Indictments
against will ercer
strike spreads and victory closer.
with suavty that
at presumably that it
really discharge pentup emotions which
have intensity extraordinary ordinary
American relations"
viii not fall for this
analytic the Pacific
workers fighting for the right to lvel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-11
Relief Workers Call
For PiCketS Today
On Fl. Jay Strike

NEW YORK.-Military polio q
Tuesday attacked pickets of the
striking relief workers on the Gov
errors Island job who were peace
ably picketing at South Ferry,
Swinging his fists, the M. p lunged
an attack at one worker hurting
him into the gutter
Out of the 500 workers on the
Island, 200 we're fired over the
weekend as part OF the general
lay-off of $1,000 relief workers
throughout the city. The remain
ing 800 workers are to be fired by
Aug. 1.
At 7 am. about 20 pickets formed
a line before the ferry Cops tried
to limit the line to two pickets.
Putting up fight, the workers won
the right to a picket line.
The 300 workers still on the
Island, some of whom joined the
strike today, are subjected to all
sorts of intimidation. Army Off
GERS threatened the men with guns
if they went out on strike.
The Relief Workers League again
appealed to all workers to mass on
the picket line. PicketS should re-
port at the Marine Workers Union
Hall at 14O Broad St., at am. to-
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-11

they came unlocked. Then the dis
cussion shifted to the agricultural
strike in New Jersey, in which
dozens have been arrested and the
threat of martial law reported in
nearly every newspaper.
Somebody asked the Labor Secre-
tary whether the Jersey farm strike
had been brought to her attention.
''Is there one?" she responded.
What is the answer to all these
1ow-paid agricultural workers." Miss
Perkins explained that the fact is
I'VE have very little information"
on this question.
She was asked whether that ex-
plains the fact that President
Roosevelt's A. A. A. has not even
professed to provide minimum wages
and maximum hours for farm la
borers, although the same agency
has thrown thousands upon thou
sands of farm workers out of jobs
by cutting down production.
What we know is very scanty,"
said Miss Perkins. Very sketchy.
Within six months study will be
made of the whole question by the
Department of Labor and the De-
partment of Agriculture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-11
Court Officer Urges
Mob to LyncIling
Continued from Page y

no member of the mob" None of
the officers lifted a finger to pro-
tect their Negro prisoner.
McCloud was lifted to the top of
an automobile after being dragged
through the streets of the town,
the free end of the rope tied to a
limb and the car driven from under
him. The first rope snapped and
McCloud fell to the ground. A man
then rushed up and slit his throat
before new rope was put around
his neck.
McCloud was arrested on a
charge of suspicion of an attempt
to attack a white woman last Sat-
urday night. Authorities refused to
say on what grounds they had con-
nected him with the alleged at
temptedN attack, which is supposed
to have occurred on a dark country
road about Is miles from here.
The woman reporting the at
tempted attack could not identify
him. Her story is that she and her
escort were returning to Bastrop
from a dance when their car ran
into a ditch. Her escort remained
in the car, while she set out afoot
to filling station. On the way,
she says, Negro stepped out of the
night and started to drag her into
a woods. He was, however, fright
ened off by an approaching car,
she declares.
Although threats of lynching fol-
lowed the arrest of McCloud no
guard was placed at the prison,
which does not maintain night
attendant. The authorities who
aided and egged on the lynch mob,
are now attempting to justify the
crime with the claim that McCloud
had confessed" to the alleged at
tempted attack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-11
Trade Union Picnic
Next Sunday To Be
Big Labor Event
by del

NEW YORK, Sunday, July
IS, will be Trade Union Soil
darity Day in New York.
The day will be celebrated by
a picnic at North Beach Park,
Astoria, Long Island.
Representatives of the i'm
portant unions in Greater New
York as we'll as a representative
Of the West Coast marine
strikers will address the workers.
An interesting program of sports
and other varied entertainment
has been arranged.
To get to the picnic take the
BM.T., IR.T. or Second Ave.
elevated to Ditmars Ave, Astoria.
From there buses to the park.
Admission rs cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-11

withdrawal Of troops. She replied
that the Presidents Marine Board
was functioning and that she
would not interp0se."
Discussing sympathetic strikes,
Miss Perkins ignored yesterdays
front page news that the San Fran
cisco Transfers Union voted 1920
to 271 to go out Thursday. She
said the teamsterS would vote on
this question tomorrow night. Re-
minded by your correspondent that
the vote tomorrow night would be
taken only to ratify the strike vote
by reclamation, she declared has
lily, "Oh, I'm sorry, 7 misspoke nv
self-thank you"
The Roosevelt Secretary of Labor
also quoted Andrew Fursueth. Pres
ldent OF the International Seamen's
Union GA. F. of L. to slur workers
control Of hiring halls-the central
demand of the Pacific Coast strik-
ers. This came about when Miss
Perkins volunteered lengthy dis
cussion of the issues in the marine
strike.
She said that a proposal for
settlement which could have been
accepted" was made six weeks ago
offering joint control of hiring halls
by the International Longshore-
mems Association CA. F. of L., the
employers and the United States
Employment Service. She added
that "of course there was no pre-
cedent for this"
Your correspondent asked Miss
Perkins whether she was aware,
then, that there was a precedent for
full control of hiring halls by
workers, as was done recently in
Baltimore. Instead of replying,
Miss Perkins went into a speech
about the finks and corruption of
which workers complain under boss
control of hiring halls.
Pressed to recall that these finks
and shanghai methods were struck
mighty blow when the Baltimore
seamen set up their own centralized
Shipping Bureau and controlled IS
percent of the port jobs, Perkins
declared.
so reliable an informant as Mr..
FuruSeth told me that he had seen
control of hiring halls by seamen
allow corruption and crimps to
creep in"
In long explanation how settle
ment of the strike has been "fur-
ther complicated" since "for some
reason or other" the workers turned
down the offer of joint control, and
since sympathetic strikes have de-
veloped, Miss Perkins declared that
one further complication" was that
the workers on Belt Line owned
by the State of California went out
and there is a dispute as to
whether unfair pressure was put
upon them" The Belt Line was
state property, she emphasized,
and somebody" burned two cars,
after which the police came to the
docks.
mo Information" On Bridgeton
The conference didn't seem to be
an especially pleasant experience to
Miss Perkins. At one point she
twirled her string of pearls until
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-11

pealed especially to the duped
Storm Troopers to join the workers
and middle-class anti-fascists. The
leaflet said, in part:
TN spite of all the desperate at
tempts of the Nazi press, which
wants to convince the people to the
contrary, the production in the de-
cisive industries declines, split-shifts
and lay-offs increase, so that even
on the greatly ballyhooed auto roads
lay-offs are undertaken. We Com
munists ask the so-called Socialists
of action: What became of the
promises made to the workers. We
ask at the same time the members
of the protective guard (S.S) and
the storm troops (S.A), the worker
and the unemployed, the small
businessman and the small farmer,
who helped the National Socialists
to come to power:
What have Hitler and his bench
men, who reached the ministerial
seats by way of your backs, kept of
their promises? Where remains the
confiscation of great fortunes and
big dividends? Where is the cut
Of high pensions, including those Of
the Nazi leaders? Where is the
cut of high ministerial salaries and
those of the other Nazi big-wigs
not forgetting the high salaries OF
the members of the Reichstag?
For these purposes, as well as
for the war preparations there is
an abundance CT money. We con-
fine ourselves to these few questions
and find out:
THE Nazi government robs the
worker of his miserable pay, the
unemployed and the charity receiver
of relief, the small businessman and
small farmer Of their small incomes.
For those, however, who have helped
the Nazis get into power, they as
sure a worthwhile income.
1.-THE proletarians may starve,
provided the parasites live, those
who lay around in the resorts and
are sure of the care and protection
Of the Nazi government while the
socialists Of action" send sick
workers to the country for hard
labor.
1.-THE whole is called by Hitler,
Goering and Goebbels: Public need
before organization need
Workers and unemployed!
How long will you allow your
selves to be whipped? Look at the
Soviet Union! There the workers
and farmers have the power, there
the progress is undeniable. Recog-
nize the diverting maneuvers of the
Nazis, who always renew their at
tempts through lies and SANDER, to
misrepresent the development OF
the Soviet Union. Awake and fol-
low the example of our Russian
brothers.
Organize the fight against your
exploiters who cold-bloodedly watch
you and your families sink into ever
deeper misery.
Make an end to the Hitler die
tatorship, which persecutes the
class-conscious worker, Furnishes
him through concentration camp
prison, penitentiary and death
while letting the capitalists live in
luxury.
Make in the factories and Offices
the preparations for the successful
fight against the oppressorsl
Build everywhere independent
workers circles!
'OrQaniza the United Front o.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-11
10000 March
After DOCkerS
Continued from Page y

the deplorable conditions of Seamen
aboard ships. He promised to bring
affidavits to prove how the bosses
blacklist militant union members.
jackson brought a petition signed
by 800 seamen stating that leaders
Of the International Seamen's
Union have no right to speak for
the seamen. He exposed the whole
strikebreaking nature of the Roose-
welt set-up by pointing to the fact
that the Marine Workers Industrial
Union through wires and personal
calls to Roosevelt has asked for
hearings, but was denied them.
Sharrenburg and Furuseth spoke
for the I.S.U. and presented a seven
point program accepting arbitra-
ton.
But Smallman, member Of the
4. S. U. negotiations committee,
startled the whole proceedings by
declaring that this program cannot
represent the men as there were
no uleeGlllko llCAu W SOAAoANOA OAtOAAA'
1t was pointed out that the same
police that shot the workers were
called by I. S. U. leaders to eject
union members from an I. S. q.
hall.
AS this is being written Harry
Bridges, chairman of the strike
committee, is making militant
speech before the board.
The Oakland Labor Council
voted to submit the question of
the general strike to the 70 af-
flliated locals with a membership
Of $4,000.
More locals in the Bay region are
voting on the general strike.
A letter sent by the Waterfront
Employers Union, to shipowners In
San Pedro, which is now in the
hands of the Western Worker, urges
all ports to follow the example of
San Francisco.
A special issue Of the Western
Worker yesterday denounced the
Labor Councils Strategy Committee
of seven as instruments heading
off the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-11
Two PiCketS Held
By Court in New
Furniture Strike
Industrial Union to Hold
Protest Mass Meet
This Evening
BULLETIN


NEW YORK.-A mass meeting
to protest police terrorization of
strikers in Jersey City will be held
on Wednesday, July IL, at 8 pm.
at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place
and 18th ST., New York.
The meeting is called under the
Joint auspices Of the National
Furniture Workers Industrial
Union, the International Labor
Defense, the American Civil Lib
critics Union and the National
Committee for the Defense Of Po-
litical Prisoners.
The speakers will be Joe Kiss,
Max Perlow, Corliss Lamont, Mrs.
Justine Wise Tulin, A. L. Wirin,
A. J. Isserman, Alfred Hirsch, Rose
Dickter, G. Stevens and A. Over
gard. M. Pizer, chairman.
JERSEY CITY, July 1o-The
struggle Of the furniture workers
here for the right to strike and
picket continued today with the
appearance before Judge William
McGovern of two members of the
International Upholsterers' Union
affiliated with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, to answer charges
of disorderly conduct. The two
were arrested on Monday as they
picketed the plant of the Metro
Art Inc. They are William Suck
Itch, of Clifton, N. j., and Joseph
Meak, of Passaic.
The arrests mark the spreading
of the struggle against the suppress
sion of working class rights, which
has thus far been carried on by the
Furniture Workers Industrial Union
in their effort to compel the Miller
Parlor Frame Co. to live up to q
signed agreement. Both men were
held in bail of $3.50 for hearing or
July II, when they pleaded not
guilty. They were defended by
Abraham Isserman, attorney, who
has acted for the is pickets who
were arrested in front Of the
Miller plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-11
Mass Demonstration
OF Painters Thursday
against ZGuSner Fraud

NEW YORK.-The Painters
Rank and File Protective Asso-
citation of the Painters Joint Ac-
ton Committee issued a call to
all painters and paperhangers
affiliated with District Council 8
to come to a mass demonstration
before the Council headquarters
Thursday night to demand the
ouSting Of Philip ausner. who
recently rode into the office of
secretary-treaSurer through stun
ing ballots.
The painters VIII demand that
Louis WeinStock, who was really
elected by the rank and file, be
seated.
All painters will meet at 7 pm.
Thursday at the north end of
Union Square in front of the
grand stand. From there they
will march to the Council head
quarters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-11
|. S. H. Protests
To Roosevelt

NEW YOR K-The following
cablegram was received by the Ma
rine Workers Industrial Union, 14O
Broad ST., from the Executive Com
nittee of the International of Sea-
man and Harbor Workers, Copen-
hagen, Denmark:
Have today sent President
Roosevelt the following telegram:
In the name of 100000 interna-
tional seamen and harbor workers
raise the sharpest protest against
shooting of striking harbor work
ers in Frisco. Demand immediate
withdrawal of police and strike
breakers from ports of Califor-
MIA"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-11
Hearing in Bronx
Court Thursday On
Jim Crow EvictiOnS
Orkers to Pack Court
Protest Attacks On
Negroes

NEW YORK.-A jury trial for !
of the Negro families threatened
with eviction from 1636-40 Univer-
sity Ave, Bronx, has been won by
the united struggle of Bronx work
ers, led by the Isaac Meyers Branch
of the League of Struggle for Ne
gro Rights and the Bronx Section
of the International Labor Defense.
The trial will take place this Thurs
day morning at the 161st Street
and Washington Avenue court. The
court had previously denied . de-
mand for jury trial.
Two of the other IL Negro families
in the two houses have been or
dered evicted next Saturday morn
ing. The House Committee of the
houses, as we'll as the organizations,
involved in the struggle, have called
upon all workers to rally at 1895
University Ave, at 1890 Saturday
morning, to prevent the threatened
eviction.
Around this case, conference
against Negro discrimination is
being called for Saturday afternoon,
July 81, at Ambassador Hall, Third
Avenue and Claremont Parkway,
Bronx, by united front Of work.
ers' and intellectuals' organizations,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-11

very we'll among members Of the
crew.
The sentiment of the crew over
Whelmingly condemns both of these
Snitchers and stool pigeons.
The following resolution was
adopted by the crew of the S. S.
President Adams:
Central Strike Committee,
Sam Teleford,
"65 Jackson ST.,
San Francisco, Cal.
"Brotherly greetings to courage
Gus Frisco marine strikers. Doing
everything possible toward solidar-
ity strike our crew"
A resolution was adopted and
wired to Governor Merriam de-
handing the withdrawal of troops,
by the crew of the S. S. Nosa King.
Other ship crews are also sending
in protest kilograms to Governor
Merriam.