The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
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recognition for better working con-
ditions, break out in many cities.
Although the A. F. L. leaders have
sold out the Fisher Body strike in
Cleveland, they have not ended the
struggles of the workers in the auto
industry. The A. F. L. officials, the
General Motors Co., and the gov
eminent Automobile Labor Board
alike openly admit that the con-
ference which they convened yes
terday in Detroit is the latest at
tempt to prevent general strike
situation in the auto industry. The
growing militancy Of the auto work
ers will not so easily be denied.
In Philadelphia, workers in the
Samuel Baylin Shoe Co., the Com
mercial Auto Body shops, and the
knitgoods workers in the Majestic,
Booth Coane and Superior mills
are defying police terror and pick
citing these struck plants.
In Gloversville, 5000 glove work
ers defy A. F. of L. officials
and Labor Board orders and con-
tinue on strike. In Danbury, Conn,
1000 Danbury matters are on strike
for increased wages, and New York
matters are preparing to follow suit.
With increasing strikes of ships
crews Give struck last week., CEN
tering around Baltimore; with the
Norfolk longshoremen expecting to
strike this week, with almost con-
tinuous local strikes of longshore-
men and seamen, the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union has called
national conference, to take place
in Baltimore on Sept. and 2, to
consolidate the local strikes and to
prepare for bigger mass strikes.
The 1000 strikers at the Camp
bells soup plant are maintaining
militant picket lines
In the railroad industry, the Rail
road Brotherhoods chiefs signed
treacherous agreement, binding the
railroad workers not to strike was
a year. This agreement did not
even restore the ten per cent cut,
which has been in effect since Feb,
1882, but gave only two and one
half per cent back Tin spite of the
high cost of living and the rest
is only to be paid back over a nine
months period.
In the coal industry the u. M.
w. A. officials have Just sold out
the strike of the SCOTS Run Nor
gantown -Fairmount) West Virginia
coal miners, sending them back to
work without an agreement.
In the st. Louis Fisher Body
strike, the A. r. L. leaders of the
United Automobile Workers Federal
Union "a. F. L. have turned mill
tant strikers on the picket line over
to the police. These A. F. L. lead
ers wear badges on the picket lines
bearing the words, Strike Dep
uty." The A. F. of L. leaders in
the st. Louis strike in Fisher
Body are making no attempts to
counter-act the lynch tactics of the
bosses. The A. F. l.. leaders put
up no demands on behalf of the
Negroes against discrimination, ETC.,
and have not combatted the attempt
of the bosses to stir race feeling in
the strike.
The A. F. l.. leaders, together with
the Socialist Party leaders, also
played q clear strikebreaking role
in the ending of the strike of 900
workers in the Chase Brass and
Copper strike led by the militant
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union. McWeeney, A. F. L. or
ganizer, and Sydney Yellin, State
Secretary of the Socialist Party, ne
gotiated with the plant management
over the heads of the workers and
made deal offering to send the
men back to work if the company
recognized the A. F. L. Meanwhile,
the company modified county and
city officials and police to terrorize
the strikers, issuing injunctions, ar
resting pickets, etc. The workers
went back in body.
Thus May First finds the workers
in growing struggles against wage
cuts. for union recognition, against
and for better work
ing conditions. In today's May Day
demonstrations, the treachery of A.
F. Of L. and Socialist leaders, their
unity with the employers, and with
he Roosevelt government boards, is
revealed by their present strike
breaker actions, more than ever
before.