Evening star., 1934-08-07
BOYCOTT IS URGED
IN TRUCK STRIKE
0Ison's Martial Law Order
Win Be Tested in Court
Thursday.

NJ The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS. August 2. - strik-
fna truck drivers called for con-
sumers' boycott to-day, ~ Rev. Francis
Haas, Federal mediator, renewed htl
efforts 10 end the most involved and
complicated controversy I have ever
encountered
The boycott, urged at q mass meet
fng last night by william Brown
president OF the Truck Drivers Union
would be leveled against all business
firms that refuse 70 sign the Haas"
Dunnisan agreement"
Truck owners subscribing 10 the
Haas Dunnigan plan agree to pay a
specific wage and 70 retnstate en-
nloyes without diBcriminat4on-termz
which the Employers Advisory Com
rnittee has rejected as detsrTninedly
as the strikers have insisted on them
Want Preferred" List.
The Advisory Committee offered
settlement provided they could rein
state employees by making selections
from preferred" list to be made up
by the employers. Strike leaders say
this ignores demands for seniority
rights.
with the military controlling the
streets. the 22-day strike moved
toward another climax Thursday
when the United States District Court
will be asked 10 rule on the legality
Of Gov Olsons martial rule and its
enforcement by National Guardsmen
The Governor said he would fight
the Federal court action. in which 10
firms are demanding an injunction 10
restrain him from using armed forces.
They allege deprivation OF constitu-
tionai rights IN the restriction Of
truck movements.
Holds Rights Violated.
The injunction action contends that
there was no necessity for martial
rule, that the issuance of military
permits for truck movements Is un-
constitutional and that the rights Of
truck owners to the use Of public
streets for transportation has been
invaded.
Originally set for tomorrow. the
hearing on temporary restraining
order was postponed at the Governor q
request. He win accompany President
Roosevelt to Rochester tomorrow and
would be unable 10 attend the hear
ing, he said.
The chief executive Was represented
as believing the service of the sum-
mons on him for the hearing was IL
legal since it was placed on desk
and In military headquarters.
Guard officers continue today to
take care of the constant demand for
truck permits. Thirty-two hundred
permits were granted up TO noon to-
day, among which were nearly $50
operators handling restricted goods
who had subscribed to the Hass-Dun-
niean plan. Taxicahs are operating
and there Is no picketing.
Communism Claimed.
Joseph r. Cochran, chairman OF the
Employers Advisory Committee, claim
ed In a statement that Communism
''is still the real issue in thk truck
drivers strike"
"The mediators' proposal is that the
employers surrender" said Cochran.
THE employers will not surrender to
Communism"
II the Haas-Dunnigan proposals
were accepted by the employers. he
contended. 1t would enable the union
to claim victory for Communicated
ership by having secured IAN Increase
IN wages without or before arbitration
and thereby give prestige TO the COM
munistic leaders OF the strike"
This, he said, would pave the way
for Communists to secure other
unions and shortly all or most OF
Minneapolis union labor would be
communized."