The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
Seamen Plan
Fight on Court
Scab Ord er

A call addressed to longshoremen,
tesmsters and seamen will be issued
today by the rank and file commit
tee of the International Longshore-
mems Union for united action to
smash the sweeping court order
shoremen to load scab cargo.
granted Wednesday compelling long
The statement, to be distributed
to all marine workers, appeals to
them to defeat the policy of Joseph
Ryan, International president of the
I. L. A., who conferred his attack
against the rank and file workers
of the union instead of uniting all
forces for common struggle against
the shipping interests.
Indicating that his policies will
continue, Ryan, commenting on the
injunction decision, declared:
ut is regrettable that Justice
Humphrey did not take into consid-
Grafton the fact that the member
ship of both of our organizations
were simply trying to see to it that
Communism would not be permitted
to inject itself into the transporta-
ton industry"
Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who
argued the case Of the union, in a
statement at Washington is re-
ported to have taken steps to fore
stall mass actions against the in
junction by holding up the hope
that the Court Of Appeals of New
York will reverse the judgment.
The statement OF the Rank and
File Committee follows:
Fight for the right to organize
and strike! Demand that Ryan and
Lacey mobilize union labor forcesl
Brothers: The bosses have gotten
out an injunction to force the Inter-
national Longshoremen's ASsocia-
ton members to handle goods de-
livered by non-union truck drivers.
The real purpose of this vicious
injunction is to smash organization
on the waterfront-to prevent long
shoremen, teamsters and seamen
from joining together in common
united front as they did in San
Francisco.
If the business interests and ship
owners succeed in making this in
junction stick, it means a heavy
blow at our organized power-at our
basic right and duty as workers and
union men to help each other in
solidarity against the employers. It
msans that the bosses will next try
to slash wages and increase speed
up.
Immediate mass resistance must
be organized against the injunc-
ton!
Demand that Ryan and Lacey
take steps to fight the injunction!
$50 far Ryan, Lacey and other
union officials have played into the
hands of the bosses by depending
solely on big shot lawyer to fight
the injunction. They have done
nothing to rally the longshoremen
and teamsters against this danger
Instead they have been busy attack
ing the rank and file workers and
the reds
Brothers of all marine crafts
Demand that special local union
meetings be called at once to or
gsnize the anti-injunction strug-
gle.
Demand that Ryan, as president
Of the Central Trades and Labor
Council, take immediate steps tc
mobilize all the labor unions in New
York for the fight against the in
junction menace.
Demand an emergency East
Coast conference of all marine
unions Refuse to handle goods de-
hvered by nen-union truck drivers
Smash the injunction through the
united mass action of all longshore-
men, teanlSters and seemen Fol
low the great example of unbreak'
able solidarity set by the San Fran
cisco marine crafts For militant
trade unionism under rank and filt
| leadership"