The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Garage Men
Need Support
OF All Labor
Strikers Warned Against
Arbitration or Craft
Settlements

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Jan. 10
The entire labor movement must be
called upon to give support to the
striking garage mechanics, reads
the statement of the Communist
Party, Twin Cities, greeting the
striking garage mechanics, now out
for a week.
The Communist Party warns the
workers against arbitration, against
separate craft settlements, or
friendly" city officials. The state
ment recalls how the Farmer-Labor
aldermen and others joined last
summer to order machine guns and
every other means of suppression
against the striking truck drivers.
The Partys statement, in full,
follows:
Fellow Workers, Greetingsl
We congratulate you on the step
you have taken to win an increase
In wages and better working condi-
tions. Garage workers are now
learning what the textile workers,
truck drivers and others have
learned in the past, that the N. R.
A. promises have been delusion,
and that if the workers are going
TO gain anything they will have to
fight for their gains. We know that
the garage workers are among the
lowest paid and most intensely ex-
plotted of all toilers.
We take this opportunity to in
form you that our entire member
ship-those who are in your ranks
as strikers. those who are in the
unions, in the Unemployed Coun-
Gil, and in other mass organizations
of workers-will support the strike
by all possible means. We realize
that you are fighting, not only for
yourselves, but that your fight is
part of the struggle to raise the
living standard of the entire work
ing class. Your fight must be car
ried on and broadened in the con-
seriousness that if you win it will be
q victory for all workers; and that
If YOU lose, all workers will be made
to bear the consequences.
Must Not Lose
But you cannot and must not
lose. Victory can be assured.
/. The entire labor movement
must be called upon to give their
support-with pickets, material
help, and so forth. This can be ac-
complished by sending committees
of strikers to all union and other
workers meetings to point out that
if this strike is lost it will give en-
couragement to the Citizens ALI
ance and to all employers in the
Twin Cities to start wage cuts and
lay-offs, longer hours of work and
speed-up The strike must be
spread. All garages in the Twin
Cities must be closed, without ex-
ceptions, to prevent any and all
possible scab work If it becomes
necessary, other unions must be
called upon to declare sympathy
strikes.
2. You must struggle against
separate craft settlements among
the garage workers. The settles
ment must be for all workers,
skilled and unskilled. Hold your
ranks solid The unskilled are the
majority of garage workers. The
emphasis must be for winning the
strike demands for ALL garage
workers. Every garage worker into
the union.
Guard Against Arbitration
3. Guard against the arbitration
trap. Experience proves that
through arbitration the workers are
stalled off, their ranks split, the
fight weakened, and the workers
interests betrayed in the end. The
results of negotiations, and even Of
arbitration, will depend upon the
degree of militancy and the effec-
tiveness of the strike.
4. Do not have illusions about
the "friendliness" of the city Off
Gals. whether they. are labeled as
reactionaries or as Farmer-Labor
progressives. The Farmer-Labor
aldermen Joined with the reaction
aries to order machine guns, riot
guns, tear gas bombs and clubs for
use against workers. If state troops
and other forces are brought in, as
was done in the truck drivers
strike, they will come to break the
strike, not to defend you. You can
rely upon the organized mass power
of the entire working class.
The Communist Party appeals to
every worker, regardless of political
utilization; to every LIBERAL profess
sional or small business man, into
whose hands this statement may
fall, to use his influence and to
take energetic steps to ensure VIC
tory for the garage workers.
Fraternally yours,
DISTRICT 9, G. P. U. S. A.
213 De Soto Building,