The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Frisco Press in
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BY BILL DUNE
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son, The reactionary section of
the strike committee here is I'M
doubtedly heavily involved in
chickering's with Acting Governor
Merriam, who hopes to be elected
this fall and with the Roosevelt
administration leaders. The fin
est sample of the anti-red propa-
ganda and example of the split
strategy of the employers is to-
days front page editorial in the
Call-Bulletin:
Where DO you stand?
1.-THE Communist Party today is
out in the open as directing the
strike that endangers the lives of
more than a million persons in San
Francisco and the Bay area.
Through the columns Of the
New York Daily Worker, organ Of
the Communist Party in New York,
a section of the Communist Inter
national, credit for this revolution
airy move is taken by the Party.
And if additional evidence might
be needed, Earl Browder, Secretary
of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party in America, has
announced that 1900 Communists
are directing the workers of San
Francisco in the logical path of a
better life
"This makes the alignment:
Acknowledged Communists
1900.
"Misled by propagandists =
ASSOC.
"Total on strike-5O,O 900.
Where do you stand?
THE statement by Browder
strips the strike situation bare. It
will surprise the $4,000 workers
who have paralyzed the life of
San Francisco and endangered
the health of more than the mil
lion people.
Their leaders have frequently
denied that any Communistic ele-
ment ives involved in this strike.
What have these leaders to say
now-now that this Communist
official insists his group is respon-
sible for this strike and that ga
hundred San Francisco's lie ahead
of American"
And what will 48,SOO San Fran
cisco workers, who so reluctantly
quit their Jobs to participate in the
greatest act of mass violence San
Francisco has ever known, do?
THE Daily Worker editorial will
be found in another column.
THE lines are formed now and
the 1900 Communist agitators are
openly arrayed against one million
three hundred thousand men and
women who have no responsibility
and never did have any responsible
ity for any of the conditions behind
| the strike.
They are arrayed, too, against
the families of the strikers. The
families will suffer even more thar
others because their bread winners
have been without income for sc
long.
This general strike is VIO-
LENCE. Violence never succeeds
1t sows future bitterness but never
wins a victory.
This strike is UNJUST because
it inflicts its injuries on hundreds
of thousands of innocents who hao
nothing but good wishes toward the
striking longshoremen and Sar
Francisco workers With proper
grievances.
"It cannot be anything but I'M
just because it hurts only the mass
of people and never the ones whom
the Communistic fomenters wish
to injure
'"The 48,800 men on strike never
intended to ravage and destroy the
city of which they are so proud
They never envisioned the suffering
and paralysis of our common life
that has come upon us.
They never wanted San Fran.
cisco to be the battle-ground of the
| violent struggle that exists today
They could not have dreamed that
they were. in voting to strike. the
dupes of Communists directed by q
New York Communist COMMITTEES
"And what will they do now
What will their leaders--their real
| old, and trusted leaderS-do?
will they continue this strike
this violence? Or will they go bach
to their work, lift the heavy bur.
den from their San Francisco, ane
go about the adjustment of theil
| differences like the reasonable mer
they have always shown themselve,
to be?
They are not Communists, the,
have no common part with Com
munists, they do not need to b,
Communists to achieve justice ant
fair dealing for themselves in Sal
Francisco?
will they allow Communists t.
push them into a situation into {
struggle from which no victory car
arise for either side?
"Or will they turn against tn,
boastful Earl Browder, Secretary O.
the Central Committee of the Com.
munist Party Of America, and re.
Duke him by returning to work?
Our Coast labor leaders have al.
ways holly denied that this strike
is Communistic. They have deniet
it because they did not know tn,
facts.
"They did not know that the,