The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
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terday in the Hollywood Bowl he
is completely ignorant of the tenn
per Of the men upon whose dues
payments he lives.
Angry Misleaders
But rarely do Communists have
their estimates confirmed so rap
idly as by Ryan in another state
ment issued in New York and
sent out by the United Press. The
wave of righteous indignation
which came from the real lead
ers of organized labor" in the
Central Labor Council of San
Francisco - and which prompted
the press to go into spasms of
ti-Communist diatribes-when it
was reported here that Earl Brow
der, speaking for the Central Com
mittee Of the Communist Party,
had written the Daily Worker that
these leaders had headed the gen.
eral strike in order to be in a
position to betray it, was some
thing to write home about
Joseph p Ryan obligingly makes
the concrete admissions that were
lacking to make the indictment
preferred by Browder factually
complete. In UP. dispatch from
New York, dated July 20, the San
Francisco News says:
Conservative union leaders
sanctioned the San Francisco
general strike to force show
down and terminate the activi-
ties of Harry Bridges, radical
longshoremen's leader, according
to Joseph p. Ryan, president Of
the LILA.
"The longShoremen's chief said
that when he reached the West
Coast last May he found the griey-
ances of the maritime workers
real, but that the employers had
refused to deal with them because
"the West Coast Iongshoremen do
not have responsible leadership.
I'm his contacts with Mr.
Bridges, Mr.. Ryan said, he found
that the men would not be bound
by majority feeling and that he
was following a course of arbitrary
decisions.
"Mr. Bridges went with IS
active followers to union meet
ings of all sorts, relating the
grievances of the longshoremen
and calling for sympathy strikes
This active minority group,
Mr.. Ryan said, finally tied up
labor in so many individual
branches that the Central Trades
and Labor Council decided the
remedy was violent action de-
signed to have quick ending.
Their view of the general strike,
Mr.. Ryan said, was that it would
be strike to end strikes"
The crime of Bridges is clear
He appealed to the rank and file
of the unions over the heads OF
the real leaders of organized la
bor." The rank and file supported
the policy of strike action in SYM
pathy with the maritime trades.
The responsible leadership" the
employers desire is that of the
Ryan type-who agreed from the
start to share" the control of
hiring halls with the employers;
this means nothing more or less
than employers control of hiring
halls and the open shop.
Bridges and the maritime work
ers strike committee wore bound
by majority feeling They had
the majority of the workers with
them. But not majority of the
real leaders,"
What Ryan really means-al-
though his statements are SO clear
as to require little explanations
that Vandeleur, Casey of the
Transfers Union, Kidwell and
others endorsed the general strike
so as to be in better position to
defeat the strike of the longshore-
men. Bridges could not be de-
feated without defeating the strike
of the maritime trades.
The strikebreaking process is now
going ahead under full steam. Gen
eral johnson speaks i'll the Holly
wood Bowl in a national broadcast
mainly for the purpose of denounc-
ing this Australian, Bridges, trusted
leader of the Pacific Coast mari
time workers, as a person who has
mot even the simple dignity of
American citizenship" Johnson ac-
companied this magnificent piece
of Roosevelt administration black
guardism with endorsement of the
fascist onslaughts upon Commu-
nists and militant workers up and
down the coast and throughout the
inland agricultural regions.
The issue for the collection of
great master minds that Roosevelt