The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
Fascist Terror, Wagner Bill, Weapons
OfN.R.A. to Smash the Toledo Strike
Communist Party Has Task To Inhn Revolutionary Upu

sharpened attack on the workers i;
not return to reaction, as claim
ed by the social-fascists, but is
brought about by the fear of the
employers government of the great
upsurge of the Toledo, Minneapolis,
steel. marine ana other workers. The
weapons of Roosevelt demagogy
have not broken the strike wave
Increased fascist terror is the last
resort of the bourgeois government
to break these strikes.
Wagner Disputes Bill
These rapid strides toward fasci-
cation are seen in the statement Of
the senate committee on labor
which, admittedly because of the
Toledo, Minneapolis and other strug-
giles, rushed through a revampec
Wagner disputes bill, after hurried
conferences with Roosevelt.
The Wagner Disputes Bill is the
open purveyor of the company union
Of the open shop. 1t declares The
right of the employer to organize
a company union with officers paic
by the company; it rules against the
closed shop: it decides against tbs
written union agreement.
The action of Roosevelt in
hurrying through the senate COM
mittee this bill. is an endorsement
of the murder, by national guards
men. of strikers. With r1urderous
fascist terror by the government
forces. already the rule in strike
struggles alabama, the longshore
Ttrike. Buffalo, Minneapolis, To-
ledo. etc., the attempts to shoot
the Toledo strikes out of existence
are given official sanction by the
Eoosevelt administration in the
rushing through Of this strike
breaking Wagner bill. This Wag-
rer bill is the answer Of Roosevelt
to the protests If workers against
the fascist murders in Toledo.
The Terror In Toledo
The fascist terror on Saturday
was increa sing from hour to hour
Reinforced by the announcement
Of the Roosevelt administration in
Washington that the break
ing Wagner bill would be rushed
through land this bill upheld al
important points in the employers
position in Toledo. outlawino
strikes. etc., the national guards
men we're turned loose on the Of
fensive. Orders we're issued to shoot
to kill. to smash the strike. MANY
hundreds we're arrested Zone pres
report said arrests total 10000
There is no doubt the nationa,
guards are Matchmaking many ar
rested workers. Backed by the
Wagner Bill, the government forces
are unloosening a severe reign Of
terror on the workers of the city.
The increasing fascist terror Is
being more and more directed
against the Communist Party anc
the most active fighters amonq the
workers. and with the aim of Gre
sting a red scare" and thus divide
the workers break the unite front
and defeat the workers fight. "Dv-
Mantle" plots; arson" plots, etc.
are being discovered. Provocative
actions of the government forces
can be expected to increase.
The A. F. of L. Leaders
Trcachery
In this situation of mon1entarily
increasing fascist terror. when the
crying need is to actually organize
the general strike demanded by the
workers, the A. F. of L. leaders are
doing all they can to hold the work
ers back and delay the spread of the
strike until fascist terror shoots the
strike to pieces. Thomas Ramsey