The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
Terror Grips
New Jersey
Strike Area
Nine Strike Leaders Are
Facing Frame-Up in
Paterson

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NEW YORK, July 5.-Notorious
for its traditional suppression OF
workers rights in the interests OF
its oil. textile and metal industry
overlords, New Jersey has broken
out in a new rash of anti-working-
class police terror during the cur
rent week, with Jersey City, Pater-
son and Bridgeton as the focal
points.
In every case the strikers have
complained that the corrupt hand
Of Frank Hague, New Jersey polit-
ical boss, has been strongly in evil
dence as the guiding element of the
forces of official and private terror
mustered against the striking work
ers.
In Paterson. where the strike of
10 International Typographical
Union printers against the Daily
Call and the Daily News is ending
its ninth week, the entire strike
committee of nine were to appear
in Recorders Court this morning
for hearing on obviously trumped
up charges of grand larceny, Grim
inal libel, assault and battery and
disorderly conduct. The nine strike
leaders were arrested on Tuesday
and released in bail of $1,000 1t
is feared that the court will bind
them over to the grand jury.
The grand larceny charges are
based on the report that a scab
employed in one of the two struck
newspaper plants lost his glasses.
The criminal libel charge is based
on an article which appeared in the
June 80 edition of the Printers
Voice, local organ of the strikers.
John Doe warrants have been is
sued for other militant strike lead
ers, it is reported. Despite large
displays Of police strength engi-
neered by Publisher Harry B.
Haynes of the News, a henchman
of Frank Hague, steady picket
line has been maintained before both
plants.
Rigid police terror still continues
against the strikers led by the Fur
niture Workers Industrial Union in
Jersey City, where Corliss Lamont
and Alfred Bingham were arrested
last week as the climax to dozen
picketing arrests which preceded.
Today, however, the strikers find
themselves the nominal victors in
their strike against the Miller Par
lor Frame Company as result Of
the decision handed down by the
National Labor Board, instructing
the company to rehire all men en-
ployed before the strike and to re-
frain from intimidating workers
from joining the union.
VINELAND, N. j., July 5.-Vio-
lence, mass arrests, attacks on
picket lines, and the attempted Or
ganization of the Ku Klux Khan
"vigilante" committee marks the
second week of the strike here
against the Seabrook Farms as Sea-
brook and the weather. farmers
are launching a terror campaign to
drive the strike leaders out of the
territory and to organize a cam
paign of terrorism against the Com
munist Party.
Unable to break the militancy of
the 500 agricultural and cannery
workers, who are fighting to main
tain the 80 cents an hour rate pro-
vided for in a contract Seabrook
signed with the Agricultural and
Cannery Workers Industrial Union
after strike in April, Seabrook has
begun to mobilize the richer farm
ers in a 'red-hunting campaign.
Import Thugs
Thugs have been imported from
Atlantic City and Philadelphia
Paid advertisements in all the local
press incite violence against the
Communist Party and outside agi-
tators.'
Donald Henderson, national Or
ganizer of the union, was seized yes
terday and is now being held in
illegal confinement.
The police are searching for the
other strike leaders, who have re-
fused to be cowed or inundated
by the terrorism and are directing
the strike under secret and Illegal
conditions.
The local authorities, led by JUS
lice o. Leslie Downs of Bridgeton,
have joined with the wealthy farm
landlord Seabrook in an open at
tempt to outlaw the Communist
Party and all union activities among
the agricultural workers, who have
been mercilessly exploited, the ay-
erage wage rates being from 5 to II
cents an hour.
n. R. A. Ignores Demands
The Washington Code authori-
ties have referred all complaints of
the cannery workers to the Newark
Labor Board, despite the fact that
Seabrook is openly violating the
canning code. A delegation of
workers has been elected to go to
the N. R. A. authorities at Wash
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