The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
Take Action Despite
Boss Terror Threat
Fruit Magnates Make Haste To Ship Frozen Crop
Which Is Poisoned

out the leaflets. There is talk of
lynching those that are caught
at it.
Here in Winterhaven, Chapman
came to the A. F. of L. meeting
along with Katy Farrell, Meadows,
the chairman of the Haines City
local, and c. S. Alfred, and asked
the union here not to let Jack
Walker speak to them, as there was
a hundred dollar reward offered for
turning him over to the people who
are looking for him. Bill Mock, the
Chief Deputy of Sheriff Chase, the
red killer. Chase said that there
are no laws to keep the Commu-
nists from talking or doing any
thing. But he has a way with the
help of his Chief Deputy and Chap
man and the rest to see to it that
there won't be any Communists left
to do anything.
Strike Can Spread
The strike will spread to all of
Polk County if any efforts are made
to get all the workers to strike.
They are all dissatisfied with the
way things have been going and
have finally woke up to what the
trouble is. They know that Chap
man is lying to them and fooling
them into letting him settle all dis
putes through a gentleman's agree
ment with the packing bosses. The
workers are waking up to the fact
that Chapman is keeping them from
forcing the Polk Company to pay
the code wages. He has caused hun
dreds to lose their jobs. and even
went so far as having Charles Nc
Call and his brother fired from
Gentiles. He has boosted of this
fact to the members, saying that
he, Chapman, had him fired so as
to keep the good will of Gus Gentle
of Haines City, Fla.
Now they are shutting all of the
packing houses down without any
one getting any relief. There are
many people that cannot get any
thing to eat now. What will be
their fate a month from now?
Frozen Fruit Shipped
The cold has frozen all the vege-
tables as we'll as the fruit. Now it
is warm again, and the fruit is all
running and is not fit to eat. The
bosses are trying to ship all that
they can to fool the people into
eating it, and to make all the
profits that they can before they
are shut down.
There were 1900 cars shipped to
New York alone last week and part
of this shipment was frozen. This
was more fruit shipped in one week
to one market than ever before in
the history of Florida. This should
be a warning to all workers to look
out for the frozen fruit, as it is not
fit to eat.
Small Farmers Discontinued
The strike is going fine, and we
will try to keep it going. There is
also more discomfort among the
small farmers, because all Of them
have been frozen out. The share
troopers have had all their straw
berries and vegetables frozen. They
can not get any loans from the
A.A.A. as they have to have secur-
ity, and the sharecroppers have no
security and nothing to eat, and
are getting $24O per week, with
families of from six to nine to take
care of. Things are getting serious
down here.
George williams, the manager OF
the Exchange at Winterhaven
where the strike is on, refused tt
have any one see him about the
strike. He only said that one
armed man can pick all of the fruit
that he has to pick. This is just q
bluff to fool the workers. The
strikers have not been discouraged
by this and have refused to move
out to let the scabs in to pick thu
fruit.