The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14
SATURDAY, JULY IA, 1884
the General Strike!


in support of the 10000 maritime strikers
and the ranks of the strikers swelling
every hour. Transfers, wholesale ware
house workers, taxi drivers, slaughter
house workers, butchers, boilermakers,
ironworkers are already on strike. Scores of local
unions are now taking strike votes
A tremendous swelling strike wave Of scores Of
thousands of workers has taken place throughout
the country, their picket lines challenging the
terror of the government armed forces. A great
wave Of strikes is the answer of the working class
to the bloody terror directed against them by the
Roosevelt government and its N. R. A. and Labor
Boards. The spread of the strike wave-the gen
eral STRIKES the answer Of the working class to
the ion-smashing, company union drive OF the
employers and the Roosevelt government
In Minneapolis drivers; in Alabama textile
workers.; in Akron rubber workers.; in Warren
Csteel workers.; in Butte lore miners and smelter
workers.; in Philadelphia Baltimore, Los Angeles
Fort Worth Milwaukee, and scores of other cities
as well as on the Pacific Coast, vast and rapidly
increasing army of workers are striking for union
recognition, against the company union, for wage
increases and for better working conditions.
The Roosevelt government and its boards have
attempted by means of fascist terror to shoot the
picket lines out of existence The National Guard,
on the Pacific Coast, augmented by police armies
through wholesale murder and martial law has
tried to outlaw and crush the maritime strike. The
workers of the United States. striking against the
company union, speed-up and union smashing
edictS of the Roosevelt N R. A and Labor Boards
are given cold steel and bullets when they demand
the right to organize to strike and to picket When
they fight for decent wages and working conditions
they are shot down. The N. R. A. stands forth in
all it's nakedness-Roosevet New Deal means
martial law, murderous terror, outlawing Of unions
and strikes, and sharper attacks on the workers
living standards.
IN the attempt to smash the unions of the workers
to render them helpless before the company
unions to rob them of their elementary right to
organize and strke-the employers and the Roose-
welt government have had the wholehearted sup
port Of such A. F. of L. officials as Green, Wohl
Ryan & Co. In San Francisco, the workers are
striking by the thousands against the will of
the San Francisco Labor Councils Strategy Com
mittee" which has been doing all it could to post
pone and try to kill the general strike. Joseph P.
Ryan, the head Of the International Longshoremen's
Association, not only has treacherously prevented
the spread of the maritime strike to the Atlantic
Lake and Gulf ports but time after time has tried
to break the strike of the maritime workers on the
Pacific Coast. Ryan and the other reactionary Of
hcials Of the l. L. A. and the International Seamen's
Union, have worked hand in glove with Roosevelt's
strike breaking Marine Labor Board, and attempted
to betray the strikers to Roosevelt arbitration" to
separate agreements, to going back to work with
out having won their demands.
In Minneapolis j. Tobn, international president
of the A. F. of L. Transfers Union, instructed the
drivers not to strike, and denounced them as reds"
William Green, after betraying the demands of the
auto and steel workers sent kilograms to the Pa
clfic Coast Central Labor Unions categoricalIy
instructing the Central Labor Unions to work
aggressively' against the spreading of the strike
These strike-breaking actions of the A. F. of L.
officials were taken while workers were being shot
down on the Pacific Coast and while the Min
neapohs authorities were preparing martial law
against the strikers
But the workers swept aside the treaeherous
orders of the A. F. of L. leaders and came out
on the streets In Minneapolis the six thousand
drivers and helpers in direct defiance of Tobin,
voted to strike The workers of Minneapolis are
moving for general strike in spite of their
A. F. of L. leaders, among whom are numbered
Trotskyists and Farm Labor officials.
In San Francisco the workers are pouring out
on the streets and engulfng the Strategy Com
mittee of the A. F. of L., which is still calling
for delay.
WORKERS OF THE UNITED STATES! Support
the heroic struggle Of the Pacific Coast strik-
Go. O1SeH1ze LIE nlgnIy protest OF all workers
organizations against the slaughter of strikers by
the National Guard and police. Demand the with
drawal OF the National Guard and the armed forces
from the strike area. Demand an end to martial
law in San Francisco.
Marine workers of the Atlantic, Gulf and Lake
ports! Come out on the streets at once In support
of your striking fellow workers on the Pacific
Coast
Workers of the A. F. of L.. Organize your
rank and file opposition groups in every local
union to defeat the strike breaking treachery of
the A. r. of L. officials
Fight for the right to strike to picket and
to organize!
Fight against the government terror of the
N. r. A. and the Roosevelt Labor Boards!
Organize the powerful mass action of the
workers throughout the country in support of the
Pacific Coast the Minneapolis, and the other
strikers
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