The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13

FLOYD B. OLSON'S strikebreaking pat
tern is now nearly complete 1t re-
veals itself as identical with that of the
Minneapolis Citizens Alliance, the muir
derers of unarmed truck drivers.
Minnesota's Farmer-Labor governor,
appearing before the United States Dis
trict Court last Friday, justified his martial law
edict by using the slogan of the employers: This
is Communistic strike"
Olson'S attorney to support this contention,
revealed that Olson has had agents spying on the
truck drivers since last May These proyocateurs
and stool pigeons of Olson, who are National Guard
officers with the polite term OF special investga-
tors" presented crude tissue of lies in order to
demoralize the strike
The affdavits of Oson's agents claimed that he
maintained martial law because the Communists
wanted to split the police force" to overthrow
the government and wreck the Union City mission
among many other crude charges. Olson now stands
in his true ligh-a heroic defender of the police who
shot peaceful pickets in the back killing two and
wounding many others.
Olson's National Guard has stopped all picket
ing. The Guardsrnen have taken from the Min
neapolis workers their elementary rights to meet
and to picket. Olsons troops are now protecting
military permits for trucks to operate His troops
have put hundreds of pickets in the military
stockade
But this is not enough for the Farmer Labor
governor. He now seeks to give a final smashing
blow to the strikers by trying to divert the issue
from their economic demands to the red scare I'm
der cover of an attack on the Communists he in
tensltes the terror, tries to split the most active
ana most militant strikers away from the rank and
file, and give free road to the company union
The singleness of purpose of Olson and the En-
ployers Advisory Committee is revealed in a radio
address of L. L. Kvam last Thursday over station
WCCO. Kvam rejoced that Olson had come out
with the employers slogan: This is a Commu-
nistic strike He repeated all of the clumsy lies
Of Olson's stool pigeons. in some detail
Then he said there one way to settle the
strike: by the establishment of company union
and the smashing of local STA Of course Kvam
did not put it in those words. He wants meet
ing under the protection of the Federal Govern
ment' to hold an election. The way to do it, he
said, was ito demand the membership records of
the union" Then all floating" members all union
ofhclals, all "Communistic gangster types" should
be excluded In other words the employers should
be in charge of the meeting and not the workers
The company union would then be in the saddle
This fascist speech was based entirely on the
statements of Governor Olsons attorneys and stool
pigeons before the courts 1t has identically the
same line and the same slogans. The whole red
scare strategy designed to make the workers for
get their demands to split up and destroy the union
by beheading it. to drive the men back to work de-
feated and to put in the company union Both
Olson and the Citizens Alliance shout revolution
and save the government" in order to defeat the
strikers.
The Communist Party of Minneapolis from the
beginning warned of the strikebreaking tactics
OF Olson. and exposed his demagogic phrases The
Communist Party of Minneapolis from the start
attempted to mobilize the workers for protest
against Oson's National Guard troops and mar
tiat law
While the Trotskyist leadership of local STA re-
manned silent regarding Olson and his lieutenants
among the A. F. of L. leadership the Communist
Party pointed out that at this very time Olson was
breaking the strike with the silent support of the
sabotaging A. F. of L. leaders
The Communist Party called upon the workers
of Minneapolis to spread the strike in support of
the drivers, over the heads of the A. F. of L. lead
ers. The Communist Party called for city-wide
conference Of all A. F. Of L. locals and all workers
organizations over the heads of the A. F. of L.
leaders, in support of the strike and in protest
against the martial law
The answer to Olson's red scare splitting tactics
must be the strongest solidarity of the entire work
ing class OF Minneapolis in support of the drivers
The road to winning the strikers demands lies in
the immediate spreading of the strike and the mob-
hzation Of the broadest masses of the Minneapolis
workers against the terror
Solidarity will defeat olson's terror and win the
strike