The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26
What Is the Shooting For!

WHAT is the central point of the To-
W ledo, Minneapolis, the longshore and
other strike struggles? What are the
workers fighting for? Why are troops
being used to shoot down strikers? For
what reason do the bosses resort to the
most brutal, the most savage violence?
The workers primarily are striking for the most
elementary rights, for the right to organize, for
the right to strike for a little more bread, little
better living standard for the right to improve their
conditions
Soon after the NR.A. was passed, Roosevelt
made one of his now infamous demagogic broad
casts in which he told the workers not to struggle
for their rights, that they would be preserved and
guarded for them
Roosevelt's rosy promises of the workers rights,
his flowery radio speeches for the New Deal" for
the forgotten man all turn to smoke and ashes,
to the corpses Of strikers, into deep wounds for
hundreds into gas-blinded eyes Of workers in To-
ledo Minneapolis, and in the tremendous sweep Of
the longshore strike
The NRA. and the Roosevelt government whose
whole aim and object has been to increase the
powers of monopoly capitalism, Of the big trusts,
is using all its force and power to keep the workers
from exercising their rights,
1t was the Roosevelt government that set the
temper of the bosses attack by his actions against
the coal, steel ana auto SJrlKers Inc ROOSEVELT
NRA administrators virtually ordered the shoot
ing down of steel workers in Ambridge Pa
THE bosses do not need house of bricks to fall
on them in order to get the hint. When the
longshoremen strike, when the Minneapolis truckers
walk out and when the Toledo auto-parts workers
try to exercise their rights the capitalists and their
local governments resort to the most brutal and
savage violence against the workers.
he
most naked fascist violence, the capitalists want to
destroy all the workers rights to organize into trade
unions; they want to drown out in blood the work
ers right strike and picket They want to preserve
the rights of scabs by the of the armed forces
of the capitalist government.
Even the Shiny Mr. William Green, who because
of his Official position the strkebreakng National
Labor Board bears responsibility for the armed at
taeks on the workers, admits that what has hap
pened in Toledo will inflame the minds Of the
working people in this country"
Yes the entire working class has the best reason
in the world to be inflamed, to be indignant and
aroused to the highest pitch. Their brothers
being shot down in cold blood, by modern armies
heavily equipped for murder, because as working
men they went out strike to that their wives
and children could eat a little better, could wear
better clothes. They went out to build organiza-
ton to protect themselves against the rapacious
bosses.
Every worker wants to do the same thing. Every
worker knows what organization Every
worker, some time or other, knows he must come
out strike.
When they shoot down their felow-workers as
they did in Toledo, Mr. Green, do you want them to
remain calm and yellow; to accept this inhunan,
this savage assault on the right of every worker
calmly as you do?
MO! The workers throughout the country must
~ know that by their heroic fight, by the risk of
their lives, the workers of Toledo of Minneapolis,
In the longshore strike, are fighting the battle of
the entire working class.
1t is the fight for the most elementary rights of
every worker-the right to organize, the right to
strike the right to picket, the right to resist the
tyranny the oppression the brutality of the bosses
Every worker through his organization, through
cooperation with his fellow-worker should be
aroused into action In Toledo and Minneapolis
the next immediate step is general strike in these
cities There should be no delay. The majority
of the workers for this strike knowing it is
the only answer to this brutal bloodshed
Throughout the country the workers in their
CARNATIONS should voice their indignation and pro-
test. They should loudly proclaim their solidarity
with their murdered, wounded and militant brothers
In Toledo.
Every effort should be made to broaden the grow
ing strike move to let it rise like mighty rivers,
joining into one vast torrent Of general strike
throughout the country.