The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
By SENDER GARLIN

by SENDER GARLAN
Newspaper truck deliveries
Wednesday afternoon were made
under police escort. Fifteen Do
Iicemen we're detailed to the
Tribune and The Journal, and as
trucks swept from the alleys with
their cargOes they we're led by
Gordon of motorcycle police"
From the Minneapolis Journal"
THESE papers which hired scabs
L to deliver their successive edi-
tons filed with the latest scare
headlines about the great Mime
ap0lis trUck-drivers' strike were
significantly silent in their editorials
on the issue Of the strike. Virtu-
ally the only editorial comment on
the strike was found in the Mime
spolis Journal in the form Of a
tribute" to Arthur Lyman, the
Minneapolis businessman vice To-
president Of the American Ball
Company who was killed when he
joined several hundred other has
tlly-mobilized deputies in an effort
to break through the blockade set
up by the strikers in the City Mar
ket.
Fearing to show their hand, the
-NE1s ~
committing itself too much in its
editorial columns, but when Lyman,
the deputy died, the Journal. I'M
der the heading, "A Martyr for
Law and Order" observed that:
Arthur Lyman gave his life in
defense of law and order in Mime
apolis. Killed by rioters on a pub
Ice street in broad daylight, he
died martyr to the cause in whose
defense he had volunteered.
For the past week mob rule has
raised its bloody head in this COM
munity, menacing the peace and
safety of all. -. In the welter Of
passion that ensued the red focus
Of Communism and anarchy saw
their chance to take control. They
summoned their plug uglies from
outside Tor shock troops. They took
over the strike. They melted dis
order. It was the red revolution
aries, and not the honest American
strikers, who managed the bloody
riot Of Tuesday, who cudgled every
special officer they could find, who
sent a stream of the victims of their
violence to the hospital-wno killed
Arthur Lyman.
"A fine outstanding citizen, of
high character. public spirited, civic
Arthur Lyman vent to his
untimely d ath, "A Christian
as to war"
THIS Christian marching as to
war" as vice-president of the
Ball Company, was one
OF the leading spirits in the Citi-
zens' Alliance, the open-shop, scab-
herding organization in the city of
He had taken a lead
ing part in the meeting held in the
West Hotel to mobilize deputies to
smash the truckmens strike. The
meeting concluded with the adop-
ton of a resolution declaring that
I'VE pledge to each other the i'm
mediate awakening of that spark
Of true citizenship, of civic pride,
of love of home, and Of respect
for law and order that will reinstate
the fair name of Minneapolis in
the eyes of the world as a city of
peaceful labor, industry and home
life"
Swathed in these fne-spun civic
phrases the deputies assembled at
the City Market in a patriotic effort
to break the strike of men being
paid S11-$17 for 1920 hours work
q week. Lyman, himself, as vice
president and general manager of
the American Ball Company hired
men to work for 30 cents an hour
and then paid them 20 cents; Min
neapolis workers told me that he
laid off his machinists and used
apprentices instead, and paid some
Of his men as little as 10 cents an
hour, in "the city of peaceful labor,
and home life"
THE heroic businessmen who be-
came deputies in order to break
The truckmen's strike were assisted
by the dregs of the city-ex-con
victs, yegg-men and the riff-raf of
Minneapolis. After the Battle of
Bulls Run" as the strikers called
the encounter with the deputies,
the Minneapolis City Council was
faced with a proposal to add $780,
300 to the police department budget
Of 1884 to pay the wages of the
deputies. Farmer Laborite mem
oers of the City Council, in a bonn