The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
ShipOWnerS Spread.
Fascist Terror To
East Coast Ports
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Flnpln0 ana Negro marine Work
ers are being assaulted by rowing
gangs of hoodlumS and after being
assaulted they are being given vi
cious jail sentences while their
hoodlum attackers are Immediately
released. Headquarters of this group
are the Thames Street Republican
Club and the leaders of the as
saul are lumpen gas hounds and
petty thieves, the majority of whom
have been either expelled or denied
membership in the Marine Workers
Industrial Union. The attack is
specially vicious against the Fill
Pine Seamen, and the old cry of
rape" which was used in watson
vile and Stockton, California, in
1880 is being again raised in Bal
timore.
Marine Workers Defend Union
The Baltimore police who have
been exceedingly vicious against the
NJ w. 1. U. and who for the last
two years, have patrolled the water
front in large numbers, are now
CONSPICUOUS only by their absence.
The only time they appear is to
place the victims of attacks under
srreS. and on one occasion at least
the victim was so badly injured that
he had to be taken to Jail in an
ambulance.
When members of the M. w. I. U.
s. = I'D Weiaan, a known petty
thief, recently released from jail, he
was Immediately rescued by the
police even though they had seen
him openly throw brick through
the window of the M. w. I. U. hall.
The next morning the Magistrate
released Weiman for lack of evil
dence and at the same time SEN
fenced four Filipinos, who had been
brutally beaten, to Jail for ten days
on charges of "disorderly conduct"
The seamen have successfully de-
Tended their hall, however, and
man, OF the gas hound hoodlums
are leaYing town after meeting
members OF he union on the street.
Mr. Leslie Jones, the stool pigeon,
was sent to the hospital with
broken jaw after an argument with
an unknown seaman.
The Seamen and longShoremen in
Baltimore have organized defense
corps and are determined to not
only defend their union hall but at
the same time to drive the fascist
racketeers and hoodlums off the
waterfront. Jones as reward for
his organization of the fascist at
tacks is being made delegate of
the I, S. U. as soon as he is re-
leased from the hospital
The Best Defense Is Organization
These attacks show the fear the
bosses have of the growth and the
miiitancy of the M. w. 1. U. The
terror on the West Coast and in
Baltimore come at the time when
the shipowners are preparing to
force through their starvation code
and attempt to enslave the Marine
Workers under the rule of the Blue
BuzZard."
1t is no accident that the Off
Gals of the I. S. U. come forward at
this time as the champions of the
N.RA. and are in the forefront of
the attacks. Paul Scharrenburg,
editor of the Sesmen's Journal and
vice president of the l. S. u, was
the first to advocate arbitration"
On re coast and greet the long
s'-o-, beard" with open arms. John
Bley, 1. S. U. agent in Baltimore,
was the first to ship scabs and mi
tate the campaign to smash the
Seamen S Centralized Shipping
Bur3.
Ivan Hunter. 1. S. U. official on
the Great Lakes, in speech in
Cleveland stated; I'VE seamen
should pray that Roosevelt and the
new deal mean a new era of pros
perity for the seamen" 1t is the
same everywhere, the labor takers
and the bosses working hand and
hand to betray the workers into the
slavery OF the MIRA.
The best weapon the workers have
is organization, the building of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
mo a powerful mass organization.
The National Unity Conference
will he held in baltimore on Sent