The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
YIN. Green $25, 900 q Year Strike-Breaker, Struts
Before the n. Steel Workers As Il "COaI Miner"


rarily behesded the struggle, bu
only temporarily. The steel work.
ers are already beginning TO set
clearly the meaning of it and it also
must be pointed out here that moi
all the armed forces modified by
state and local governments, and
thugs by the steel corporations are
the ones that prevented the struggle
that would lead to victories, but it is
the reactionary leadership of the A
F. of L. and the Analgamated As
ISOLATION of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers.
In Gary, Indiana, in the town
which has all the resemblance of
industrial feudahsm. where the Re-
publican Mayor johnson Is an office
boy of the Illinois Steel Corporation
Subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Cor
poration), where w. P. Gleason, su-
perintendent of the mill is the real
boss Of the city, who dictates the
policy of the City Council Of Gary,
and who acts as President of the
Park Board to make sure that there
will be no Slip-up anywhere as to
the workers right to use the parks
for public gatherings, in the city
where the Gary State Bank, owned
by the Illinois Steel Corporation is
the only bank that remains open out
Of the IS banks before the crisis, it
is in this city that workers are very
much indignant against the be-
trayal and show elements of re-
sistance. The Republican Mayor Of
Gary, Mr.. Johnson, on the eve of
the strike, issued a proclamation,
declaring:
Several months ago the city
council and safety board took pre-
liminary steps to purchase new
equipment for the police depart
ment. This equipment will be
available If any emergency arises"
In Gary there is no money for the
unemployed. But there is money
ITO purchase new equipment for the
police department" in preparation
for maSsacres of the workers. Re-
publican Mayor Johnson, also de-
clared in his proclamation:
:" If strike Is called, crowds,
large or small, will not he permit
ted to gather unless special per-
mission of the chief of police Is
obtained"
Not only the Republican admins
tration of Gary rushed in defense of
the interests Of the Steel Trust. The
Indiana Democratic Governor Paul
V. McNutt, former national COM
mander of the American Legion, on
the eve of June 18th. sent Major
Thompson Of the National Guard,
who came to Gary, according to the
Gary Post Tribune:
g. to view all angles of the
possible strike, including the pur-
ported association of Communists
with the walk-Out threat as well
as defensive tactics undertaken by
the steel industry"
The same paper further reports
that Major General Robert H. Tyn-
dali, local National Guard Comman-
der had prepared Ibis forces for
immediate action" And around the
steel mills and especially the IL
linois Steel Mill, hundreds of private
guards. armed to the teeth, and as
the Gary Post Tribune testified, on
motorcycles with machine guns
mounted on each has been put into
operation"
Why all this preparation for
civil war against the workers when
they were sure weeks In advance
that Steel Worker Mike Tighe of
the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, and
Goal Miner" Bill Green, as well
as the local betrayers, such as Cur