The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
With the Trade
Union Papers
BY EDWIN BOLFE-

b the Office workers and authors
who had been arrested while pick
citing before the Macaulay Co.
building arrived at the 57th St
court house, we found taxi driver
in the cell, awaiting trial. He had
been forced to give up his drivers
license by one of New York's blue
coats, who still take every oppor-
tunity to harrass and perseCute p
these underpaid and company-vic-
timized hackies. Although the
cops blackjack had left an ugly
and bleeding welt on his forehead,
he was being held, charged with
assault.
The Union Haekie
We found out what had hap
pened, and got fiery LID. Lawyer
Tauber, who came to defend us, to
appear for him, too He is a mem
her Of the Taxicab Drivers Union Of
Greater New York, one Of the thou
sands Of hackies whose courageous
mass picket lines a few months
ago will never be forgotten; one Of
the thousands whose organization
still grows in strength and for
whom The Union Hackie is pub
lished.
The latest issue of The Union
Hackie deals with cases of perse-
cution such as this. It records the
numerous and provocative arrests
of hackies on trumped-up charges
Of "Cbstructing traffic" "disorderIy
conduct" etc. But it does far more.
In articles on Negro cab drivers,
on big neighborhood garage con-
ferences, in correspondence from
the taxi drivers themselves, it CO.
ordinates the unions entire line of
militant struggle for decent working
conditions, for higher wages and
shorter shifts, against company
spies. 1t carries on the work SO gIo-
riously begun in the recent taxi
strike-the tough, day-to-day work
which will yet result in a strong
union and in the hackies' victory.
The Furniture Worker
The Furniture Worker (organ of
the National Furniture Workers In
dustrial Union, published in New
York; features in it's June issue
the fight of the Boston furniture
workers against the injunction men
ace, and takes up the orgapiza-
tional problems facing upholsterers,
cabinet-makers and wood-carvers
throughout the country-in the
South and Middle West. as well
as in Boston and New York.
This issue prints What We Stand
For!", based On the resolution
adopted at the unions national
convention in New York on Feb. O.
IL. 1t contains youth section and
workers correspondence. Besides
the problems which face the furni-
ture workers alone, it takes up main
issues before the working class as a
whole, such as the campaign
against terror and for workers
rights, now made doubly important
in the light Of LaGuardia's open
approval of police brutality against
jobless and employed.
A. F. of L. Rank and File
The A. F. of L. Rank and File
FedeTatiOnist in it's June issue fea-
lures the current strike-wave, which
is sweeping the country despite alI
attempts of the top A. F. of L. lead
ers, working hand in hand with the
National Recovery Administration.
to prevent determined strike struR-
giles. In 1t can be found news of
all industries and of all sections Of
the working class, women as well as
men, youth as well as adult.
The present issue continues to
push the campaign for the support
Of the Workers Social and Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill. H. r. 1898.
With the nation wide steel strike
looming, with textile strikes break
ing out in many cities of the land
in spite of the sell-out activities
OF Mcmahon and German, with q
thousand other strike struggles.
large and small, in progress or on
the horizon, the A. F. of l.. Rank
and File FederatiOnist, published
monthly by the A. F. of L. Trade
Union Committee for Unemplny-
ment Insurance and Relief be-
comes a hundred times more inn
portant. Workers in all industries,
in A. F. Of L., independent, and in
dustrial unions, should not miss a
single iscIIo IF fI1ic r.,t ct q ,r3;,,n, 90