The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24

and tear gas
fgy by proposing
pat the. strikers
e driven into the ~
Employer con- Sev,oorrEU.IS,..a.
rolled A. F, of L.,
nat undesirable" aliens be "repatri-
ted (deported), and that the Ameri-
an Legion, admitted by them to be
ne of the leading terroriStS, be used
one OF the media" for promoting
program of social and economic
EDUCATION" under the auspices Of the
nJrenched employers California State
department. Of Education.
The National Labor Board commits
Sloners, approaching the extent to
which their own Board has used
lemagogy against the militant work.
erS, gives the California faScists a
lesson in this Hitler art. Don't lie
50 much, caution the commissioners.
They explain to the growers that
1t is ''whistliag in the graveyard" to
utter such palpable lies as they pub
Ilshed on Jan. 8 and % by the BraW-
ley (Cal) News: THE EZeMcans are
well satisfied with the treatment ac-
corded them by the growers and ship
pers,' and Vegetable workers as a
whole are contented, anxious and will
lag to work, and in perfect under
landing with their employers How
ever, the commissioners write, 1--WE
suspect that this is whistling in the
graveyard for privately some Of the
growers informed us they were fear
tul chat trouble might break out again
at the time Of harvesting the cante-
loupe crop"
In fact, the commissioners continue,
this fear may be warranted by" sew
aral circumstances, among which
are:
We have been informed that as
many as 30 men in prison have been
discussing precisely what they are to
DO upon their release, and that the
prison has become a virtual normal
school, for training in the technique
Il organizing and striking" Sounds
e a ezarist police reportD
, kThe Filipino group is actively or
! 5ynizing. The leaders assured us that
this time effort will be made TO join
with all other groups of workers, re-
CARELESS of race or color.
only by the most tactful handling
Was the Vegetable Packers ASsocia-
zion (aftlliated with the American
Federation of Labor, probably all
United States citizens, prevented from
passing g, strong resolution of SYM
pathy with The Mexican strikers"
\ Organization work is now going on
apong the Mexican workers, pre-
!, nahly under new leadership,
'There is no evidence that the sup
kiessive activities on the part of
the police are retarding In the least
the organization plans of the Can
merry and Agricultural Workers In
dustrial Union, allegedly Comuu-
nistie.
There is a lack of open and eff
Gent leadership among the work
ers." (This after explicitly stating
that the terror has forced much Of
the organizing underground
The menace Of further disturbance
warrants immediate action looking
toward the removal of those condi-
lions, real or fancied, that create
and encourage discomfort" (To re-
move which, the commissioners be-
lieve it necessary to delegate the
American Legion as one of the
weapons for fascist social and eco
nonic education"
no MEET these circumstances the
| commissioners specifically" recon-
mend that the United States De-
partment of Labor send representa-
tives who can speak Spanish to aid
the Mexican and Filipino groups, and
others, to organize for the purpose
CT collective bargaining is, so
shat the MeXicans. Fflipinos, Japan
csc, and other foreign workers fight
ing under the banner of the G. and
AWI.U. may possibly be weaned and
tricked into the A. F. of l..
And, of course, you fools, you are
not yet ready to openly deny the
right II strike!n Thus, the recon-
incubation that "the Federal Govern-
ment encourage the organization OF
workers, in order that collective bar
Gaining may be effective in matters
IF wages and conditions, both work
nse and living, and that the right
ID strike and peacefully picket shall
ba maintained"
VI
THE report does not hesitate TO re-
| ci.e the conditions under which
the AGRICULTURAL workers are fighting
to Get IS instead of as little as 10
cents an hour for pickers and pack
ers. equal pay for equal work for
women and young workers, recogni-
tion of their union (the G. and A.
" I W, all hiring through their
union, clean drinking water, a guar
antee of five hours work when called
IN slave in the fields, abolition OF the
csntract system and free transporta-
In to the fields.
kThe following, taken from the spe-
cll reports, is what the tear gar, clubs
and pistols of the police and vigilan-
tes. deputized thugs and American
T,egionnaires of the Imperial Valley
are attempting to perpetuate.
"A strike was declared by the Q.
and A. w. I. U. for January 8. A
mass meeting for all workers in the
valley was called for FL Cen-ro next
dav AS the Brawley contingent was
FORMING, to proceed to Ell Centre by
trucks and cars, it was broken up by
n