The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-05
SideIigIlts on the Recent
Minneapolis Strike

lQbO bQe street ana CramDleQ. IN
the confusion Shoemaker was led
Of in patrol wagon along with
scores Of other strikers.
In court he said he was acting in
the public interest" and that the
broom stick handle which he had
with him when arrested he took
away from striker 80 ne wouldn't
start any trouble"
ShOemaker's chief claim to dis
tinction, however. is that he served
a years term in Leavenworth some
time ago because he had sent a
letter to a banker-a political foe-
who he charged had robbed wid-
ows and orphans"
2HOEMAKERS radical" speeches
y in Minneapolis make the Trot.
zkyites appear as tame as Meth.
odist missionaries. During the
course Of the strike CONGRESSMAN
Shoemaker made a speech at the
West Hotel-the same hotel where
the Citizens Alliance modified
their deputies Shoemaker's topic
was How Laws Are Kept from
Being Made" Some Of his utter
ances show why the Farmer Labor
forces in Minneapolis are able to
pose as a party of workers and
farmers.
The New Deal" Shoemaker de-
clared, lis the New Steal ]. P.
Morgan is the boss of the Repub-
hcan Party . President Roose-
velt has arranged a lot Of alpha
betical connections which will end
up, when We pay the bonds, as plain
lou" Moreover, that the Farmer
Labor platform. instead Of being
Communistic, was a modern ver-
sion Of the system adopted BY the
Jews thousands Of years ago. when
every seven years they forgave per-
sonal debts and every 40 years re-
distributed the land" Concluding,
Shoemaker announced that the
money interests back East are ready
to spend S500O00O0 to defeat the
Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota"
MAY l8, William Brown, president
ln Of the General Drivers and
Helpers Union declared that we
feel that the strike has now reached
the point where it is impossible for
the rest Of organized labor in Min
nesota not to participate. We feel
confident that the continuation of
this particular strike will shortly
develop general strike affecting
all the industries Of the city. We
are aware that the future Of the
working class movement in Mime
sofa is at stake; we are prepared to
fight it out"
One week later-Under Trotzkv-
tie leadership. the strike is stran-
gled by a series Of truces followed
by an agreement which forces COM
pulsory arbitration upon the men.
IN MAY Is the strikers demanded
" that the bosses sign a written
contract which would bind them to
abide strictly by the provisions of
Section Ia Of the N.R.A. and would
pledge them not to discriminate
against workers because Of union
membership" the trucking bosses
came through with the declaration
that they saw no need of signing
an identical agreement with the
union, and that in any event they
preferred to be parties to an agree
ment with the u S. government
rather than with the union.
AFTER the Battle of Bulls Run
n Chief Of Police Johannes asked
DR.. E. T. Boquist, commander Of
the Fifth District of the American
Legion posts. to enlist 1900 men as
special deputies This was after a
batch Of uniformed cops and depu-
ties had been sent sailing to the
General Hospital, so it
wasn't bit surprising to hear that
after short delay Boquist in
formed the police chief that the
Legionnaires couldn't serve as dep
uties because it was against the
constitution of the American Le-
gion.
Minneapolis Shows the Way
1.-THE Militant" organ Of
the Trotzkyites. Yes, the workers
showed the way to victory by their
courage and militancy,
but the Trotzkyite leaders showed
the way to surrender by shameless
with the A. F Of L.
and the Farmer-Labor
which had modified
the National Guard in an effort to
force the strikers back to their jobsl