The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-01
MAYOR PLOTS
TO BREAK UP
TRUCK STRIKE
Meets With Publishers
Against the Threatened
WalkOut of Transfers

A conference of Mayor LaGuardia
and the largest publishers OF the
city to combat the teamsters' strike
was held Wednesday afternoon at
City Hall, the Daily Worker learned
from authoritative sources yester-
day.
At this meeting the Mayor re-
ceived the support of the capitalist
newspapers of the city in a fight
to stem the strike movement in the
guise of moving food, fuels and
newspapers"
The publishers pledged their
trucks to the administration for
strike-breaking purposes.
A confidential message to all
newspaper offices, evidently based
on the reassurances given by the
Mayor, was sent out early yesterday
morning by Harvey j. Kelly, execu-
tive secretary of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association
and himself strike breaker of long
standing, to the effect that the
strike was "off" and that the Mayor
would issue a statement.
Forgets' Farley With Publishers
Confronted by the Kelly state
ment, the Mayor at his morning
press conference yesterday did not
mention his meeting with the pub
fishers. He said:
That's half true. 1 will make
a statement.
'T'm hopeful that all differences
will be irOned out. 1 have con-
fidence in the leadership of the
unions invOlved-Mr. Michael ].
Casual of the Transfers and Mr..
Joe Ryan of the LongshOremen,
who is also president of the Cen
trail Trades and Labor Council l
hope that these gentlemen will be
able to make formal announce
ment.
"AII seems quiet on the water
front"
Questioned as to whether he did
not believe that the strike situation
was beyond the control of the Of
ficials of the organizations, the
Mayor reiterated his belief that
Casual and Ryan could stem the
strike movement. But I have con-
fidence in their leadership" the
Mayor emphasized.
That's what I hope" the Mayor
answered another reporter who
asked him whether he believed that
the strike germ had been killed"
Fear Another Frisco
The Mayors conference with the
newspaper publishers or managing
editors representing newspapers was
evidently based on the growing fear
in employers circles of a repetition
of the San Francisco general strike.
1t was attended by some of the
largest publishers in the city--with
the honorable exception of the
Daily Worker, which had not been
Notwithstanding Victor Ridder,
editor of the Journal of Commerce.
This is the second such secret
conference with publishers aimed at
the workers of New York City, it Is
recalled. Last spring a meeting of
a similar character was held and
was promptly exposed by the Daily
Worker, no representative of which
had been invited. That such con-
ference was held was not confirmed
in official circles, but was finally
admitted by New York Post edi-
torial writer in a signed article in
the New Republic a few weeks after
the Daily Worker had celled the
entire matter to public attention.
In informed labor circles the
Mayors conference with the own
ers of the large metropolitan dailies
is considered analogous to the steps
taken by John Francis Neylan,
counsel for the Hearst newspapers,
in organizing the San Francisco
press against the general strike
there last year.