The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Act Against Fascist Terror

Eight strikers dead-shot down in cold
~ blood on the picket lines by police and
by employers deputized gunner! Scores
wounded, number near death! This is
the toll taken by the employers and their
armed forces in the murdarOus drive to
shoot the present strikes of the workers
out Of existence.
Those who until now have still labored under
the illusion that the NRA. and Roosevelt we're
uphoding the rights OF the workers to organize
that it was a question of the NRA and the workers
against the employers-should dispel these ilu-
sionS now.
The killers of the eight strikers committed muir
der wholesale in order to uphold the anti-working
class DEGREES of the NRA In Buffalo the picket
lines of the aircraft strikers subject to brutal
assault with gunf1re, swinging clubs, and fire hose
of the police in order to enforce a Labor Board
decision that the strikers return to work before
winning their demands. The fascist attack in Buff
falo was in support of N.RA strikebreaking orders
to return to work
In Alabama, four Negro ore miners and one
coal miner we're murdered, in attempt to force
the workers at the point Of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron deputies guns, to return to work under Labor
Board wage scale decisions. In Galveston Texas,
a Negro longshoreman was murdered, in the Los
Angeles harbor two longshoremen killed, by
company gunner, in order to break the strike Of
the longshoremen-a strike which occurred in spite
of Labor Board attempts at settlement" which
robbed the workers of their demands.
FIGHT workers lie dead and scores fill the hos
Il pitfalls as the NRA drives toward Fascsm The
responsibility rests squarely on the Roosevelt adj
ministration-on the NR.A machinery Of the fed
eral government.
The workers, engaged in sweeping strike
wave for living wage, for union recognition and
against worsening conditions, now forced to
fight for their elementary rights
The issue is whether the workers will have the
right to strike and picket to meet and assemble, to
organize into their own unions
The employers and their government are now
trying through bloody fascist terror, to rob the
workers Of these rights The killing of eight workers
on the picket lines, and the wounding Of many
more, was carried out under the banner of the
Blue Eagle, with the protection of the National
Guard lin Alabama) and part of the Labor
Board-NR.A. campaign to break the strike wave.
long step toward open fascist dictatorship is
being taken now, and the Roosevelt government
shielding the gunner of the employers behind dem
agogic mouthings, is giving birth to this fascist
terror The fascist terror loosed against the workers
now is the logical next step in the MIRA campaign
to outlaw strikes, smash the trade unions, build
government controlled and company unions, and
enforce low living standard on the workers.
In the vanguard of this fascist hue and cry
and fully supporting this bloody terror stand the
officials Of the American Federation of Labor. The
president Of the Alabama State Federation of La
Dor, Moore, has publicly endorsed the campaign
against the reds" and declared that he will CO.
operate in this campaign-meaning the campaign to
break the strikes through murderous fascist terror.
The broadcast united front of all those oppos-
ing fascism must Immediately be organized to de-
fend the rights Of the workers, to help them win
their strikes for decent wages. The mass action
Of the workers and their allies must stay the hands
Of the fascist strikebreakers.
The working class Of the entire country must
now spring into action to defend its elementary
rights!
Send protest kilograms to the Governors Of
California, Alabama, New York and Texas.
Hold mass meetings and demonstrations for
the right Of the strikers to picket, to meet, as
sembIe and organize.
Organize a nationwide protest against the
fascist terror
Forge the united front of the workers and all
their supporters to defeat the fascist terror
against the strikers