The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Working Men, Women!
All Forces Behind the
General Strike!
Continued from Page y

union control Of hiring halls; ~ recognition of the
maritime unions; 90 improvement Of working con-
ditions.
Mavor Rossi is shouting revolution in order to
detract the attention Of the from immediate
issues Of the strike
The San Francisco Chronicle, following Mayor
Rossis lead says: THE radicals have seized control
by intimidation. What they want is revolution
Organized labor and Communism have nothing IN
common"
What deliberate, provocative misstatement Of
the facts!
Everybody knows that the Communists are or
ganizing the working class with the ultimate aim
Of setting up government Of the workers. But
It should be clear to all that the Communists in
the immediate situation are fighting for the most
elementary rights Of the workers This is a strike
and not a revolution
Communists are playing leading role in the
strike. They have played an important role in
the struggle from the very beginning The role
of the Communists has been to arouse the workers
to the greatest class consciousness to expose and
isolate the top A. F. of L. strikebreang leadership
to continue the strike and spread it under rank
and file leadership to draw the greatest number of
reserves into the fight to spread the strike into
a general walk-out and thus assure its success.
IN THE immediate situation in San Francisco and
! along the West Coast the main question Of the
day is winning the demands Of the marine strikers.
In order to win these demands the Communist
Party emphasizes once more the absolute necessity
Of rank and file control ef the entire situation.
The A. F. of L. leaders who have done everything
in their power to halt the general strike, must
not be allowed to have one word to say in the
strike committees. They must be branded traitors
Of the labor movement and cast from the ranks
Of the working class.
Mayor Rossi has revealed the fact that the
ruling class is setting up its broad committee of
500, committee designed to break the strike The
election of workers committee that will repre-
sent every section of workers strike Is therefore
the immediate order of the day.
Only such committee, one elected by the rank
and file of the workers, defeat the committee
Of the ruling class and lead the general strike to
successful conclusion Only such a committee can
speak for the thousands Of workers who are now
, on strike
All the hysterical wailing and shouting of the
ruling class and their newspapers about the short
age Of food about the reds their bomb plot r1nors
their housewives tales Of Strange men terroriznp
farmers" are designed to throw confusion and dis
cord among the strikers
WHAT is needed now is even stronger solidarity
" among the working class The bellyaching CAPT.
tasts must be forced to face the issue they must
be made to hear the demands of Labor they must
be made to grant these demands.
Inc entire working class of the United States
must Immediately unite behind this grim strike
Every labor union must throw the entire weight
OF its support to the West Coast workers
Scab ships must be stopped in the North Atlantic
ports thousands Of protests against the use of