The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Spread
Fascist Terror To
East Coast Ports
Marine Conference in
Baltimore To Weld
United Front
BY W. C. INCLUSION

y W. Gs McGO10ION
empowers, using their agengs
the Police, National Guard. stool.
pigeons and gangsters, have in tia,
past lew weeks launched a ter-
rorlstlc campaign against the Mar
Inc workers Industrial Union. On
the Pacific Coast this attack has
been particularly vicious with the
smashing Of halls and equipment
wholesale arrest of members and
brutal treatment of the prisoners.
Starting in San Francisco with a
raid conducted under the auspices
OF the National Guard" the wave
OF terror spread rapidly with raids
occurring almost simultaneously in
Seattle and San Pedro.
Shipowners Aided by the /. S. u.
The raid on the Union Hall in
San Francisco and the arrest OF
Harry Jackson, Pacific Coast or
ganizer of the union, came at the
beginning of the general strike and
Immediately followed Jackson's mill
liant speech at the inquiry" con-
Quoted by Rooseyelt's "longshors
board"
At this hearing jackson chaI-
lenged the statements of Paul
Scharrenburg and Andrew Furuseth
who claimed to represent the strik-
ing Seamen and who gave an exag-
gerated report of the membership
of the International Seamen's
Union of the A. F. of L. Fearing
that a referendum of the striking
Seamen would prove disastrous to
the l. S. u, Furuseth, the sell-out
president of the I. S. u, jumped up
and called the M. w. I. U. a Com
munist Union" and demanded that
all witnesses be placed under oath.
Immediately following this came
the red scare" speeches of Cover
nor Merriam, Mayor Rossi and
General Johnson, with the accom-
panying "vigilante" raids, the Vigi-
lantes' being imported Bergdoff
gangsters brought to San Francisco
by air.
Raids Designated to Break
Miiitancy
The bosses, knowing in advance
and by agreement the sell-out tao
tics that would be used by Vande-
leur and his gang of labor betraying
"strategiSts," were afraid that the
YxfnpLrnt-c irNpAlvvaI ~,
strike would follow the example OF
the maritime strikers and sweep the
reactionary leadership aside, replac.
ing Vandeleur, Casey, Scharrenburk
and Company, with a rank and file
elected General Strike Committee.
The raids came as a prelude to
the sell-out and were inspired ana
aided by the A. F. of L. leadership
in San Francisco. Matthew VOLTS
Communist Terror" story appeared
in the Liberty Magazine at this time
and was reprinted on the front
pages of all the Pacific Coast
papers.
The rank and file leaders of the
workers Immediately becme the tar
get of the fascist attacks with four
Of the outstanding leaders of the
M. w. I. u, Jackson and Rodgers
in San Francisco and Archer and
Stack in Seattle, being arrested al
most simultaneously. The Western
Worker" official organ of the mari
time strikers, felt the full force OF
the attack with the office and
equipment being destroyed and the
printing presses burned.
Terror Spreads to the East Coast
In Baltimore, scene OF the moss
outstanding victories of the M. W,
l. u, reign of nationalist terro}
of the worst type has beea
inaugrated. Using Leslie Jones, for>
mer member of the M w. /. U. wkQ
was expelled as a stool pigeon ana
agent -provocsteur, the shipown6Ts
and the Baltimore politicians are
attempting to smash the influenvs
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