The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
BY CARL REEVE
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strikebreaking fascist terror. The
strike sentiment is rising among the
Alabama steel workers and the coal
miners, especially in those mines
owned by the steel companies The
Thomas Blast furnace Of the Re
public Steel is already on strike, as
are cafeteria workers, relief workers,
meat workers, the Selma Manufac-
turing Co., and other plants in Biz
nlingham. The strike wave espe-
cially among the steel workers is ris-
ing in Alabama and affecting other
Southern centers.
The struggle yesterday on the
picket line of the $500 Toledo Auto
Lite strikers, gives evidence of the
growing strike sentiment in that
city. The Toledo authorities have
openly appealed to the Washington
N. R. A. heads for help in holding
down the intense demand of the
workers for spreading the strikes.
The workers of Toledo are display
ing great militancy on mass picket
lines, in spite of the directives Of
the A. F. Of L. leaders. The picket
lines are Joined by many other
workers.
Partial Victories
There have been strikes of 5000
workers in Akron, Ohio, in the past
few weeks, including the Diamond
match workers, strikes which we're
settled with partial gains for the
workers. These strikes made a
great impression on the rubber
workers in the big rubber and tire
companies located there. The rank
and file rubber workers have al
ready conducted few departmental
strikes. The A. F. of L. officials
have been forced to draw up de-
mands in a blanket agreement"
demands which are similar to the
demands Of the Opposition inside
these A. F. of L. federal unions.
Colman Claherty, Green's represent
tative in the rubber industry, has
for two months carried these de-
mands around in his pocket, know
ing that refusal by the companies
would bring great, militant strike
of the rubber workers. The rubber
workers will not much longer be
prevented from striking for these
demands.
The strike of 400 metal workers
in the Formica Insulation Co. in
Cincinnati brought fsr-reaching ef-
fects. In spite of police terror. in
which hundreds we're arrested, the
workers of the city rallied to the
Formics picket lines, and now a
strike wave is sweeping Cincinnati.
Seven chartered locals of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union have been organized, with
TOO dues paying members.
Strike Wave Rising
Undoubtedly, the strike wave is
rising rapidly The sympathetic
strikes in Minneapolis, and the
militant struggles of the workers in
the other cities mentioned, show
the determined resistance to the
fascist terror now raging against
the workers, who are fighting for
higher wages. The strikes are all
taking on marked political char
acter.
The spreading of the strike
movement, to the same industry
in other cities and to other fac
tories in the same town, is an i'm
portant weapon of the workers in
fighting fascist terror. SPREAD
THE STRIKE, is the slogan which
will broaden the mass movement
against terror.
The Buffalo aircraft strikers have
given splendid example of the
drawing in Of broad sections of the
working class, in support of their
strike, and against the fascist ter
ror. Their Support the Strike
Conference was attended by loo
duly elected delegates from more
than so organizations, in addition
TO many fraternal delegates. The
regular delegates included many A
F. of L. local unions