The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-07

general strike. They called for a
one-day transportation stoppage
Saturday as a protest. Emery Nell
son, secretary Of the Central Labor
Union, and Roy Weir, editor of the
Labor Review, the official organ of
the Central Labor Union and the
Farmer Labor sheet, were spokeS-
men at the meeting. These people,
however, consciously ignored the
question OF either transportation or
general strike in Minneapolis. The
Dunno leadership of STA did not fall
out with the Cramers and Nelson's,
and the very fact that no transpor-
tation strike took place on Saturday
proves that, while the Trotskyite
leadership of local STA was speaking
for transportation strike, they
joined with the Cramers and Nell
sons to ignore it in action. The most
characteristic of all was the fact
that at this meeting the Farmer
Laborite Shoemaker and other
speakers were allowed, without a
word to the contrary by the Trot-
skyite leadership, to praise Olson
and approve of his actions. Not a
word was mentioned about the fact
that the troops came to the scene
of murder to assist the police and
to help move the scab trucks that
were covered with the blood of the
workers. In spite of numerous calls
for speaker from the Communist
Party and the Unemployment Coun-
Gil at this meeting, this was refused
by the Trotskyite leaders of STA.
The next day there was a con-
tinuation of the praise of Olson,
and the loud speaker in the strike
headquarters kept on laundering
that Olson is the friend of labor
and that on Friday Olson was the
man to protect order when there
was chaos. The call for unity of all
workers to fight the terror of Mayor
cambridge, Johannes and Olson
was answered by the strike leader
ship not only by preventing of Com
munists from speaking to the driv-
ers, but also in attempting to pre-
vent the members Of the Unemploy
ed Council from joining on the
picket line and from entering the
strike headquarters.
Splitting tactics amongst the I'M
employed were put in operation
through the MEOW. "a Trotsky-
Uncontrolled nominal organization
for the unemployed). The Unem-
ployment Council of Minneapolis
had gone out to mobilize the sup
port of the unemployed for the
strike. Several ERA. jobs were APP
preached by the Unemployment
Council and the United Relief
Workers Association and organiza
ton was started to get the ERA.
workers to strike in sympathy with
the drivers and for their own de-
mands of union wages on the job
and increased time to make up a
minimum of $3.50 per week.
The Trotskyite leadership, instead
of urging the drivers to assist the
Unemployment Council and the
United Relief workers Association
to organize the ERA workers and
bring them out in support of the
drivers strike and into the struggle
for their own demands, proceeded
to pull the ERA. jobs out and to
bring the workers into the M.C.C.W.,
barring the Unemployment Council
and raising the red scare" on their
own hook amongst the ERA. work.
ers, urging them to eliminate the
Communists from the organization
Of the ERA. workers. Such splitting
tactics only weakened the organiza-
ton Of the ERA. workers and the
organization for an effective strike
of those workers, sending them bacl.
to the ERA. jobs without struggle
for their own demands.
The next article will deal with
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