The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
General Strike" Is
Cry In Toledo As
Rifle Fire Goes On

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back, about 40 guardsmen, armed
with night sticks, leaped out and
began chasing them, beating those
they could lay hands on and ar
resting several. Among those ar
rested was Art Round, Toledo fire
man recently layed of.
AS night fell, at the same point
guardsmen tried another trick. One
group cut off Elm St., while an
other group sneaked around the
crowd in between the houses and
cut off Lagrange St They thus had
the crowd trapped between Elm and
Lagrange Sts on Michigan st. Since
street lamps we're out, the guards
men we're almost on top of the crowd
before they were discovered.
They began chasing everybody in
sight, beating them with night
sticks. Your correspondent was
among those chased. About 80, in
Guiding several children, were
rounded up and taken to headquar-
tiers established in the Auto-Lite
plant. Among those arrested we're
I. Greenberg, member of the Ma
tional Executive Board, Auto Work.
ers Union, several University of
Michigan students, and a number
Of workers from nearby cities, The
presence of out OF town workers on
the picket line indicates wide
spread support for the Toledo strik-
ers.
Workers, undaunted, kept up a
barrage of stone at various points
through large part of the night.
Soldiers made periodic attacks, US
ing chiefly tear and vomiting gas,
night sticks and bayonets. One
flaming gas bomb went into a house
where sick 30-year-old woman was
in bed. Between attacks, the crowd
of workers kept up a steady fire Of
taunts and jeers. All told, about so
were arrested during the day and
night.
The National Guardsmen are all
young kids from farms and small
towns in southern Ohio. Some, it
was admitted in the local capitalist
press, are still in high school.
The Young Communist League
has issued leaflets to the guards
men, calling on them to refuse to
shoot workers. 1t Is reported that
several guardsmen have thrown
down their guns and refused to do
the dirty work any longer. The
press is suppreSsing this news.
While the fighting was going on
yesterday afternoon, striking mem
bers of the A. F. of L. Federal Union
at the Auto-Lite, Bingham Stamp
ing and Logan Gear plants met in
Memorial Hall, supposedly to vote
on new settlement terms to be pre-
sented by Charles P. Taft, Cincin-
natl millionaire, sent here as Fed
eral mediator to break the strike.
Strikers had decisively rejected the
terms offered by Taft the night be-
fore. That government and the A.
F. of L, leaders are having difficulty
in putting over the strikebreaking
settlement was indicated by the fact
that no new settlement was offered
yesterday, but was postponed for an
other meeting this afternoon. Prior
to this meeting, the A. F. of L. Off
Gals are holding a secret confer
ence with Taft.
Strikers are demanding with
drawal of militia and complete shut
down of the factory until negotia-
tons are held. A leafet, issued by
the Auto Workers Union, the IN
employment Council and the Com
munist Party, warning against ar
bitration and against naneuvers of
the A. F. of L. officials and calling on
the workers to demand an immedi-
ate general strike, was distributed at
yesterdays meeting
Yesterday, the So workers arrest
ed Friday, came up for trial Thir-
teen are charged with assault and
battery, one with lettering and SO
with rioting, we're placed under
peace bonds Of 500 each.
One worker, Thomas Meyers, was
framed on charge of arson. An
other worker, Vivian Eddy, was sent
to the workhouse when unable to
pay a $25 fine.
Tomorrow, IS workers, arrested
last week on charges of violating
the injunction against mass picket
ing, come up for trial. Arthur Gar
field Hays. attorney for the Civil
Liberties Union, is coming here to
defend Louis Budenz, secretary of
the American Workers Party Attor-
neys for the International Labor
Defense will defend other workers
The LID, Unemployment Council
and Communist Party are calling
on workers to pack the court room
and join in the mass protest meet
ing in Court House So at noon to-
morrow.
Toledo workers look or support
to the workers Of the entire coun-
Try try. Fhse;r splendid struggles must
not be allowed to be smashed.
Workers are urged to organize
mass protest meetings and confer
ences and to wire Governor White
and President Roosevelt, demand
ing the removal of the militia.
NEW YORK.-Adjutant Gem
cral Henderson, head of the Ohio
National Guard, has issued def
mite instructions to Brighten. L.
s. Connolly in charge of the troops
here, to shoot into the crowds, it
was reported by the Universal
Service News Agency today. The