The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-22
Building Trades Work
ers Join Walk-out;
Other Unions to Act
80 ARE INJURED
Sentiment for General
Strike Grows

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi,
May 21.-Following a bloody
police attack on striking
truck drivers, $4,000 members
( of the MINNEAPOLIS Building
Trades Council voted to go
out on a sympathy strike to-
day in support of the truckers.
The sympathy action AGAINST po-
lice terror will begin at pm. to-
day. and will paralyze all building
activity in this city.
Representatives of other unions
called meetings for late today to
discuss plans for a general strike.
Scab drivers. who ATTEMPTED to
break through the picket line, even
with police help. were beaten. and
the contents Of their trucks dumped
into the street. The city had depu-
tized 1000 armed thugs.
Police swung their clubs at strik-
ing truck-drivers in the city mar
ket today in an effort to get the
trucks with perishable vegetables
; moving.
The truck-drivers valiantly
fought the police. Over 30 persons
were injured, of whom half we're
police. 1t was only when the police
rushed to their wagons and pulled
out rot guns that the strikers with
drew. waiting for picket reinforce
ments. After the battle nearly 5000
strikers and sympathizers were
massed in the produce market.
Women and youth were among the
most militant in the strikers ranks
today.
Battles have been going on be-
tween the strikers and police for
the past three days Yesterday Is
women we're dubbed and sent to
the hospital.
Sentiment for a general strike is
developing among the workers
throughout the city Communists
and members Of the unemployment
council led in the picket line, while
A. F. Of L. leaders, and their Trot-
skyite hangers-on. are trying to
eliminate Communist participation
from the strike.
Five workers were arrested on
the charge Of causing the disturb
ance in the produce market.
Farmer-Labor Governor Floyd B.
Olsen. who several days ago threat
ened to call out the militia TO break
the strike, today negotiated with
the truck owners. The workers are
refusing to arbitrate so long as the
police make efforts to help the scabs
break the strike. Governor Olsen is
endeavoring to use the Regional
Labor Board to arbitrate in the usu-
al manner, that is, by sending the
workers back without granting their
demands. and then forcing them to
accept the results of the arbitra-
ton after the strike is broken.
TIE Communist Party today is
sued a call for a general strike Of
all workers in Minneapolis, organ
lied as we'll as unorganized.
They call on the workers to an
swer Governor Olsen's threats Of
calling out the armed forces TO
break the strike by urging all work.
ers to Join a general walk-olt.
The Steel end Metal Workers In
dustrial Union of Minneapolis is
issuing call to all metal shops
for a mass meeting on Wednesday
night at 329 Cedar Ave. to decide
on strike.
The Regional Labor Board itself,
meanwhile. is bringing pressure to
= force strike breaking arbitration, as
/ they fear the temper of the work
t ers is being aroused to high pitch
: against the terror. The response OF
the $4,000 building trades workers
e was made through an appeal of the
truck drivers for assistance in their
> strike, and against the terror.
= The companies refuse to deal with
the union en- the question Of hours
: and wages.