The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
The Bag of Tricks

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AS the great general strike action spreads
"A from town to town in the San Fran
cisco Bay area, the owners of industry,
the government officials and the cap
itaIst press frantically open new bags of
tricks, trot in additional New Deal me-
diators and augment troop attachments
with additional battalons.
vying with the armed forces of the State for
first place in the ranks of the strikebreakers is the
capitalist press.
1t was the capitalist press that spread the
mythical red terror stories and the wild, incredible
tales of red plots for immediate revolution in
California. The stories were the brain children
of the Honorable Mayor RoSsi but the capitalist
press nursed them, dressed them up and saw to
it that they got immediate public debut.
But the red horror" fantasies were not so
effective as the San Francisco Mayor and the
capitalist editors thought they would be-
So, while continuing to whoop it up against
the Communists, the press is trying a new stunt.
The good editors, leaping to the crack of the
NR.A. whip launch into q Soft-soap literary en-
dorsement of the conservative level-headed labor
leaders"
The gentlemen referred to are Paul Sharon
Furuseth, president of the same organization, who
with Mr.. Sharrenberg, proposed that the strikers
go back to work and then arbitrate their demands;
Joseph P. Ryan, who is now on the East Coast
trying to halt the spread of the strike, and all
leaders Of the San Francisco Labor Council around
Vandeleur, over whose heads the Frisco workers
decided to strike in support of the maritime work
ers.
In endorsing this batch of labor misleaders, the
capitalist press aims at discrediting the rank and
file leaders, who are very we'll able to take care
of the situation. The press of the bosses is at
tempting to swing the leadership of the movement
over to the observation-disclosures who are interested
only in breaking the strike and stopping its spread
The workers can only have faith in their elected
rank and file representatives. Only such repre-
sentatiyes should be allowed to speak for the
strikers Only such representatives can lead the
strike to successful conclusion.
To hand the strike over to Furuseth and Shar-
renberg would be as bad as turning over the lead
ership of the struggle to major-general of the
California State Field Artillery.
THE capitalist press continues to announce that
the strike only be terminated by ousting
the reds, by accepting arbitration, in short by
the strikers returning to work under the same
conditions before the strike.
This is the shipowners plan, the plan of the
N.RA, and its father Mr. Roosevelt the mediation
board the Governor of California and all the gen.
erals of the National Guard.
But the strike cannot be settled under such an
idiotc plan
The strike can be settled by the shipowners
granting the just demands of the maritime strik-
ers-union control of hiring halls; recognition
Of the maritime unions; improvement of condi-
tions on the ships and docks.
Only one thing stands between the continue
ton of the strike and its termination; the refusal
of the Shpowners to grant three simple demands
The greatest determining factor, the factor that
will force the bosses to agree to the strikers de-
mands is the support given to the strike by workers
throughout the country. The struggle is one of
the entire working class and must not for a minute
be isolated West of the Cascade Mountains
stress the solidarity actions carried out through
out the country by the organized labor movement
A. F. of L. workers, workers in the Socialist
Party, all organized and unorganized workers. re-
CARELESS of political afilation or opinions, must
unite behind this great strike with every ounce of
energy.
Hold demonstrations in support of the gen.
eraI strike!
Send wires to the Governor of California
demanding the withdrawal of troops for the
strike area!
Send funds to the seamens strike committee,
s. Jackson St., San Francisco.
Spread the strike to the East Coast ports