The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
CHANGE
the
WORLD!
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By SENDER GARLIN


the most stirring details in connection with the great
strike struggle in California. So here it is
The West Coast marine workers strike, the greatest
strike the Pacific Coast, opening the of
bougeoie well demonstrating solidarity and unity the
funeral by police bullets
of the Communist Party in good standing membE the LA
took the capitalist newspapers
porters well astounding untold thousands
accepted the tale of the those their
courage whing the that this strike unpopular
The report the front the
the Industrial Association open
shop and open capitalist rule used the words strange astounding
amazing and in the first their account
press had succeeded in partly foong itself its heroic and militant
efforts to FOOL the people and they were actually as ssoded as many
of their readers must have been
people No capitalist can believe that.
Supendous
funeral which stretched
the slain strikers accompanied by ruoads of floral wreaths
The striking longshoreman
formed by death into symbols labor
In life they wouldn't have commanded second glance the
Francisco.
came to full-sop and stared marye the reporter
And another thing they couldn't overthe They
told themselves yhng the their failing
capitalist that demanding moth
ing but oubeaking
when they find $4,000 American ngshomen remen
engineers masters and pilots fcook scalers
working
asking living conditions
not for pigsthey marvel nAmercan wonders
think it is with
in burlap- sack dwelingsO
Not only striking maritime
trades among
continues, and hit up in black type
And who had doubted the solid sympathy
with the striking unions shamed by that demona
ton"
NDEED it was an impressive day First the bodies lay in state at
headquarters All the exact which
and vedore picket shot
policeman of honor stood and weats and
piled high simple small
children by to look and leave their token of solidarity In the
upstairs filled with the sweet ckish kind of
golden mission bells
Indian panbrs and Johnny umpups cued from the highway
the Rincon Hill
hodfo niob
troopers National Guard have taken the hill from the simple
by jeans housekeeping
ais wreath carnations
trimmed with maiden hair fern and left
siyey piled up
KILLED sympathetic wondered
how the felt when he read that.
organized by police
firing for the because Examiner
exclaimed there policeman sight the whole line
of marchF
"cNeyer khaki a
cycle policeman radio to be seen! The policemen kept
frem sight despite their absence the with
much precision with as little disorder as if had been an EpVoh
League PROFESSIONAL
marching slowly funeral dges played members of the Musicians
Union musicians mark, of Musicians
headed by group of lila in truck forming traffic
squad approached
thooughe
Tom Mooney labor leader still sits Jail nnocenthe
policemen
treat kel They had from sight the police
Ross cock the ongshoemen and have learned
call them they had hide their heads their bodies their pistols
and their nghick and their bloody orders shoot at unarmed
and citizens whose fury at them hidden beneath funeral dg
might exploded.
the that
" procession? filled themselves
readers long with their nmida
believed themselves Nowhere the capitalist the
called struggle, called
agtators,
they selfrespeet discipline public
than hired of pistooing thugs
bunch of shpowners 1egonnaes
tainy parade takes without police
the another
ta this strike At the
Disputes Archbishop Attorney
evidence
In simple terse style vivid writer
ps of these hearings the fact
English fed by exciting
and professor official
economist spokesman for the employers with such
MAYBE the content writing affect the
The occasional upefaction
udicrous comparison. What this fink?
Archbishop Hanna.
Just coou expression, Bridges
Chairman of the Longshon and the Joint Marine Strike
mitee The workers know what it And there
laughter Attorney Cushing didn't understand
To-day he helps enighen the Archbishop
Oddities Another strike representative
He tells the
breaking McGrady old L. ofcia
might be working? striker
clude cabs don't consider