The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03
Capitalist Press Aid S
Terror Drive in
Racine
BY a Worker Correspondent

Dy a WI N'bAtNGHDAASAN
RACINE, visa week ago the
VERA. workers and the Unem-
ployed Workers Committee of Ac-
ton called for mass meeting to
be held in the auditorium of the
Garfield School, to bring to the
workers the correct policy to use in
order to get more relief.
In spite of the rain, it had been
raining here for over two weeks,
hundreds of workers came to the
school,
The school is surrounded by a
high wire fence in which there are
four gates. These gates were guarded
by policemen and detectives, and
when the workers came they were
refused admission to the grounds.
Only one hundred workers, who
came early, were able to get in.
At 8 o'clock, when the room was
filled and the meeting was sup
posed to start, the Chief of Police,
Grover C. Lutter, came up and told
the workers that there would not
be any meeting that night. Many
women were there with their chill
dren. This dirty skunk turned out
the lights before the women could
get the children's coats and hats on.
This is something new for the
workers here. They have been mis-
led by organizations like the Racine
County Workers Committee. Non
Partisan League, VERA. Post /,
American Legion, VIEW, Racine
Service League, into believing that
they could better their conditions
by letting the takers controlling
these organizations look after their
interests.
The workers have had their eyes
opened up by the militant struggles
of the Committee of Action. At a
meeting called by the Socialist-con
trolled Racine County Workers
Committee at the Racine County
Relief Department, week ago Sat-
urday, the workers were attacked by
a bunch of hoodlums, which event
was reported by the local gutter
sheet, the Racine Journal Times, as
"Vigilantes Attack Reds"
At this meeting the police and
deputies were present, but when
these hooligans attacked the work.
ers, the police said they could not
see. If the cops can't see, it's no
reason for the workers not opening
their eyes.
Hundreds of young people who
have never worked since getting out
of school, are learning that the
poison they had learned in school
about free speech and assembly is
only lot of hokum, when they try
to use these rights against the
bosses.
The issue is here. After four and
five years of misery, having their
relief cut to the bone, and nothing
done about it by the misleaders who
tell them to keep their mouth shut
and starve, the workers are looking
for another way out as shown by
the fact that they came to the meet
ing in rainstorm.
These militant workers have been
drawing fire from the capitalist
press every day for the last two
weeks These gutter sheets don't
put the truth in, but the workers
are beginning to see how they dis
tort the facts. These fascist rats
are trying their damdnest to pick up
the leaders and stem the tide of
revolt. But it has come close to
the point where many workers are
ready to step in to fill the breach
and take leadership in the fight for
bread and butter.
The biggest cry of these rats is
Communism" All the time they
shout Communists this, and Reds
that. The workers see through these
gutter sheets. that it really is the
Reds" that fight the bosses and not
the fake outfits.
We got the ball rolling, and we
must keep it rolling in spite of hell
and high water. The Chief of Police
told John Sekat when he lodged a
protest against the attacks of the
police upon the workers, that If he
(the chief did not check the work.
ers (redS) now, Racine would be
the reddest town in the country.