The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18

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! CEAMEN'S and lockers
~ strikes have an interna-
tional significance. Especially
now, with boats filled With
bombing planes, dynamite,
machine guns, and other war
supplies for the Far East, the
strike of the Pacific Coast seamen
is an action that is the concern of
millions in China, Japan, the
Philippines, New Zealand and Aus
tralia.
Just before the Pacific Coast long
shoremen's strike began, the Pan
Pacific Trade Union Secretariat,
with headquarters at 437 Market
ST., San Francisco, and in Shanghai,
addressed a leaflet to the long
shoremen, declaring: international
Solidarity will help you win"
The leaflets were avidly read. A
special edition was printed in Chi
nese and japanese.
Sending you greetings ami good
wishes for your victory" reads the
leaflet, "the Pan-Pacific Trade
Union Secretariat, which unites the
trade unions of China, Japan, the
Soviet Union, the Philippines, Chile,
/ Indonesia, New Zealand. Australia.
ETC., wish to express our sympathy
in practical way, as follows"
Then there follows concretely
what action the Pan-Pacific Secre-
tariat has taken to inform all its
affiliated organizations about ths
strike, and urging their members
and sympathizers not to handle scab
cargo.
Within the Japenese Seamen's
Union" says the leaflet, lis much
prosecuted, but militant organized
opposition, the 'Sassinskai, affili-
ated to us, and through which we
will appeal to Japanese Seamen and
lockers to support your strike. The
results are hard to say, but we will
try, and expect many crews will re-
fuse to work cargo.
1.-THE National Seamens Union of
China can be depended on to do all
in its power to support your strike.
They are splendid trade unionists,
ready to support you to the best of
their ability.
Our affiliate in the Philippines
the Proletarian Labor Congress,
has about half the organized dock.
ers and seamen, and some reaction
airy unions have the other half
There will be fight to keep the
reactionary unions from handling
scab cargo, but with fair chance
that you will get support on the
Manila and Iloilo docks"
The leaflet points out that de-
spite the fact the New Zealand anc
Australia seamen's and lockers
union is saddled with a prototype
of the Ryan bureaucrats, "the work
ers are not the kind of men who
will handle the scab cargo"
Forward through unity and
struggle to victory! Forward to
international solidarity of all
workers, regardless of race, color,
nationality or tongue!" concludes
this leaflet.
ONE has to go to the Nazi press
" in Germany to get a more vile
SANDER against the Austrian So.
cialist workers than that uttered
recently by Max Winter. former So
cialist Mayor of Vienna, who is
touring Canada and the United
States to help Norman Thomas and
company explain away Bauers
treachery.
From the Canadian press in Mon
treal Ca news service similar to the
United Press here) wet get the fol
lowing quotation taken from
speech made by Winter on May II
to the Canadian Young Peoples So
cialiSt League:
"Our Socialist comrades in Ger
many, whom we had expected to
fight for freedom and democracy,
have given it up and are now
shouting More power to Hitler!'
Even the Communists are doing
the same. Thus was the fate of
Austria sealed"
Winter was one of those Social
Democratic leaders, who, together
with Otto Bauer, offered DollfusS q
two-year fascist dictatorship. Win
ter helped to disarm the Vienna
proletariat. He approved Dollfuss's
outlawing of the Communist Party
of Austria. Now to cover his crimes
he utters the foulest ISLANDERS
against those 1900 workers who lost
their lives on the barricades, and
the other tens of thousands still
fighting in Austria against fascism,
following the path of the revolu-
tionary struggle pointed out by the
Communist International.
WE have another story to tell about
W what Socialist workers In
Czechoslovakia are doing after wit
Messing the betrayal of the Otto
Bauers and Max Winters.
In Engelsberg, after discussing the
Austrian events, a group of Socialist
Party members quit their Party AND
Joined the Communist Party. Func-
tionaries of the Socialist Party II
the city of Winkelsdorf resigned
their offices because of the be-
travail of the leaders of the Second
(Socialist) International, and joined
the Communist Party. In Hirsch-
endtand, meetings of the Socialists
were held to discuss Bauer's apollo
getic pamphlet. Communist Party
members were invited to attend, and