The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28

"if you organize your forces and
elect committees in every shop to
lead a general strike, you'll win. You
won't get everything; hunger will
still remain, even though condi-
tons will be better 1t is inpos-
sible to do away with hunger en-
tirely under the present system.
Only by establishing a rule of work
erS in place of a rule of the capt.
talists can prosperity and freedom
for everybody be won. The tide of
workers struggle is rising every
where because conditions are I'M
bearable That's why workers must
think of the way out. The way out
is in struggle for every right, a
struggle to build a different society
in which the producers shall rule,
such as has already been established
in the Soviet Union, which has
abolished unemployment and estab-
lished real freedom for the masses. y
William Patterson, OF the Local
LID, active in the labor movement
ever so years, exposed the trickery
of the capitalistic courts and showed
that wherever concessions had been
won it was through mass pressure,
He revealed the fact that it was
Charles P. Taft's father who issued
the injunction against the Toledo
railroad workers when he was Presi-
dent of the United States.
In the midst of the meeting the
Daily Worker arrived and news OF
the demonstrations in other cities
supporting the Toledo strikers was
loudly cheered. Three hundred
copies were sold.
Several Join Party
Kenneth Eggert, section organizer
Communist Party, told how Min
iger, president of the Auto-Lite Co,
had wrecked the Toledo banks. He
exposed the double-faced role of
Ramsey, A. F. Of L. leader. Ram
sey told you if you allow Commu-
nists on the picket line, public
opinion will be against you and the
strike will be lost. Communists did
come on the picket line and what do
you have? The Aueo-Lite plant for
the first time is shut tight and pub
lie opinion-not the capitalist press,
but the entire population of the city
is solidly behind the strike"
Eggert called on the workers 10
join the Party and several signed
applications.
Greetings and pledges of support
we're brought by j. Wilson of
Detroit, National Organizer Of
Auto Workers Union, and by j. E.
Macdonald of Chicago, Chairman
of Railroad Brotherhoods Unity
Committee.
Other speakers we're Eddie
Blakely, Section Organizer. Young
Communist League, and Kenneth
Ostheimer of Unemployed Council.
Eugene Stoll was chairman.
Chief speakers at the Musteite
meeting were Music himself, Louis
Budenz, Secretary of A. w. P. Sam
Pollock, Educational Director of Un-
employed League, and Haywood
Broun, Socialist" colulnnist, who
that very day, in his column in
the strike breaking Toledo News
B ee, Liberal Scripps- Howard
paper, had ridiculed strikers and
defended National Guardsmen.
Judging from these speeches, one
would have thought epic Toledo
struggle was taking place in a court
room. The chief concern of all
Musteite speakers was with the
trial of forty-six workers taking
place tomorrow on charge of violat-
ing injunction, in which Budenz is
one of the defendants.
Speakers, while giving lip-service
to general strike, said nothing
on how to prepare it and made no
criticism of A. F. of l.. leaders who
are moving heaven and earth to
prevent a general strike