The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1934, Page 5

— DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1934 Page Five Seattle General Strike Terror in 1919 Shows How Labor Can Defeat It 5 Years of Crisis Make Workers Wary of ‘Red Scare’ Ballyhoo By EDWIN ROLFE HE many contemptible attacks and provocations now being used by the government and the big bosses in the San Francisco general strike are not new to American workers. Provocation, the raising of the “red scare,” the ganging up of the press, the attacks on militant strikers by hoodlum organizations (such as the “Vigilantes” and police | —all have been used by the bosses before. Every small strike of the past fifteen years—and thousands, of others before then—have wit: nessed such actions in varying de- grees of viciousness. Only this year the agricultural strikers in Califor- nia’s Imperial Valley faced this government-boss thug line-up. But we must go back 15 years toa similar situation as that which ex- ists in San Francisco today to wit- ness such methods used on as widespread a scale—to the Seattle general strike of 1919, which lasted for six days before the treachery of reactionary union officials brought about its end. Shipyard Workers Struck The Seattle general strike began when the metal trades workers em- ployed in the ship-building yards (one-fourth of all the ships built during the war were constructed in Seattle shipyards) demanded an nicreased wage scale and an 8-day, 44-hour week for all workers in the industry, from the most skilled craftsmen down to the laborers. They demanded $8 a day for mechanics “with a'graded scale ac- cording to skill, down to $5.50 a day for the latter.” As the companies, goaded and advised by the Federal government and the specially-ap- pointed Macy Board, held out, 35,000 shipyard workers struck in Seattle, Tacoma and Aberdeen on January 21, 1919. Raise “Red Scare” The strike was immediately charged to “radical leaders,” to Bolsheviks. The cry of revolution was raised by the press, which fanned the ignorant flames which it had started with its vicious, dis- torted accounts of the proletarian revolution in Russia, just two years before. “Foreigners” were held responsible for the strike. And, despite the organized orderliness of the strikers, special police and depu- ties were sworn in by Mayor Ole Hanson. On January 22 the Central Labor Council, composed of representatives of every local union, was urged to call a general strike in support of the shipyard workers by the Metal Trades Council. A meeting on this communication was called for Sun- day, February 2. As the strike vote drew close, oil and foodstuffs were bought up by those who could afford to lay in a heavy supply, just as in San Francisco today. The press shouted “Bolshevism!” “Law and order now became the fetish of the city government, which had not bothered itself unduly with law during the war.” (W. H. Crook— “The General Strike.”) 30,000 Workers Quit The general walk-out, which in- volved about 30,000 union workers in addition to the 35,000 shipyard workers already on strike, took place at 10 a. m. Thursday, Feb. 6. A strike committee, composed of delegates from the various unions involved, was set up. While all agreed on exemptions for hospital supplies and for milk, the reac- tionaries began to vote exemptions for power and utilities concerns and other industries, thus weakening the strength of the huge walk-out. Although the strikers maintained! perfect self-discipline, Mayor Ole Hanson spent $50,000 to hire and equip special police.. When Mayor Hanson on February 8 threatened martial law if the strike were not immediately called off, the strikers voted overwhelmingly on the fol- lowing day to continue. But reac- tionary officials of the various unions already had called several trades back to work, dealing a serious blow to the strike. The bosses, with the aid of these reac- tionary officials, felt secure in their position as the strike dwindled, and when it ended, on February 11, they began a Vicious open-shop drive. The Same Line-Up How identical were the actions of the government, the bosses, the reactionary union officials of Seattle in 1919 to those of the administra- tion and bosses and die-hard union officials of San Francisco today. The workers are still fighting in San Francisco, despite the anti- workingclass moves of their officials, The terror is in full sway, with police and National Guardsmen and Vigilantes raiding and beating and jailing all militant workers’ organi- zations in the city. Workers Stecled By Crisis But it will not be as easy to break the general strike in San Francisco today as it was to break the Seattle general strike fifteen years ago. In the first place, the sheer numerical strength of the strikers is greater. Secondly, and far more important, the workers on strike today know well the bitter lessons, the privation and hunger, of five consecutive years of crisis. Thirdly, the militancy of the work- ers, if it is moved along class struggle channels, is a powerful force against the reactionary union officialdom. Finally, the “red scare” does not cause shivers of fear to a mass of workers, to a general working class population which has witnessed the growth and activities of the Com- munist Party for many years They have seen how splendidly and cour- ageously the Communists have bat- tled for workers’ rights, how fear- Jessly the Communist Party has guided the recent struggles of the agricultural and cannery workers. And they have witnessed the similar Communist leadership of struggles Thtroughout the country. | | The cry of “Bolshevism” no | longer s a magic word for the bosses |to blind workers who see how the | Bolsheviks have made the Soviet Union the only land in the world where workers rule, where unem- | | ployment for workers is unknown. | With fifteen long years of con- | tinuous struggle and accumulated experence, of crisis, of sell-outs by | labor misleaders—with all this be-| hing them the workers of San| Francisco today will not allow} themselves to be defeated as easily | as they were in Seattle in 1919. Election Head ‘Asks Speed in Illinois Drive | pate, | Nominating Meet Called | in 10th Congressional | Dist. of Wisconsin | | | (Daily Worker Midwest Bureany | | CHICAGO, Ill, July 18. — “Wwe |must increase the speed of our! work in collecting signatures at once if we are to place our Commu- nist candidates on the ballot in Il- linois,” A. Guss, Illinois State cam- paign manager stated today. Guss pointed out that while many successful nominating conventions have been held in different congres- sional districts, the work of filling nominating petitions is lagging | dangerously, “The campaign committee is |greatly alarmed at the neglect of this work,” Guss said. “There is no excuse for us to fail in getting working class candidates on the ballot. Every worker, every work- ers’ organization, should take this question as their own, personal re- sponsibility.” The election campaign committee issued a special appeal to young and unemployed workers to take an active part in this work. All election campaign headquarters will be kept | Open day and night, and workers are urged to give all their spare time to canvassing. Guss poinfed out that the task of | getting the required number of sig- natures is not impossible, or even difficult if the work is carried out correctly. “In one congressional district in | Chicago,” he said, “the petitions are almost completely filled out. This shows what can be done if .we take the question seriously. | “On the South Side, Claude Lightfoot received 33,000 votes in the last election. In that district we need only to collect 8,000 names to place our candidates on the ballot. It should not be difficult to get that number, but it will require inten- sified work. * * * | CHICAGO, Iil., July 18—A large jelection auto parade will follow the Cook County Communist Nomina- Saturday, July 28th. The parade | will drive several miles through the ; Strikes, to mobilize support for a | city wide Red Sunday July 29. The conference is to begin at 1:30 p.m.Saturday at People’s Audi- torium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. A full workers’ slate for county offices will be nominated. When the conference cleses, the parade will begin. Sunday will be a Red Sunday, a day for the collection of signatures to place Communist candidates on the ballots, All workers and work- | ers’ organizations are asked to elect delegates to the conference and to | participate in the auto parade and signature collection. IRONWOOD, Mich. July 18— Following on a_ successful state nominating convention, the Com- munist Party in Wisconsin, has is- sued @ call for a Tenth Congres- held in Ashiand, July 29th at 1 p.m. The tenth congressional district embraces practically all of northern Wisconsin. This convention will adopt an election program for the tenth congressional district, and map out a campaign to reach every corner of the district. The call urges all workers and farmers or- ganizations to participate in the convention and to help in the prep- arations for it. Walter Harju, can- didate for Lieutenant-Governor of Wisconsin, will make the keynote speech. 104,489 Apartments Empty, Thousands Homeless in N. Y. NEW YORK (F.P.)\—The home- less thousands of New York may be glad to know that 104,489 Man- hettan apartments are vacant. That is what a recent survey of the New York City Housing Author- ity has revealed. Almost 20,000 of these apartments have not been occupied for more than two years. More than three- fourths of the vacant apartments are in the slum areas where two and three families have been forced to double up in the effort to make jends meet, And recently a highly skilled building trades worker, facing evic- tion, killed himself and his wife. Canadian Workers Hit Strike Terror VANCOUVER, B. C., July 9—A mass meeting held last night in the Royal Theatre, attended by hun- dreds of workers, protested the murder of San Francisco workers and the sending of troops against the strikers. The meeting was called by the Canadian Labor De- | “Vigilantes,” who were used as the tion Conference called here for | sional district Convention, to be | portation Fascist Knights Ride Frisco Streets By SI GERSON HE black knight of fascism | rode the streets of San| Francisco Tuesday night. | That he rode in a high-pow- | ered automobile, carried a re-| volver and a sawed-off base-| ball bat and called himself a| “Vigilante” does not change| the situation muh. He wrecked labor centers, beat militant leaders and attempted to| smash the spearhead of the general | strike. Italian workers who wit-| nessed the destruction of workers’ | headquarters and co-operatives in| Milan, Turin, Rome, and a score| of other Italian cities in 1921, will tell you that the actions of the San} Francisco “Vigilantes” were) strangely similar. The boss class is| international in-its lustful vengeance | when even the tiniest fraction of its | profits are endangered. More details will undoubtedly filter through, but sufficient infor- mation is at hand to draw a fair picture of the situation and draw some conclusions of impor- tance for the entire American labor movement. American Fascism | What the Frisco workers got| Tuesday was a taste of American | fascism, nothing less. We say this) advisedly. | The classic lineup of fascism was | there: the great employers, their legal forces, the police, the federal| forces, General Johnson and the} National Guards, and, last but not| least, the extra-legal forces, the shock troops of the strike-breaking, union-smashing collection. | Methods typical of this stage of the development of fascism in this country were used. The “Vigilantes” were sent ahead to smash the cen- ters of militant leadership and in- spiration—the headquarters of the!| Communist Party, the “Western Worker,” official organ of the Cali- fornia district of the Communist} Party, the militant Marine Workers’ Industfial Union, and other mili- tant labor centers. If the “Vigi- lantes” failed, the police could al- ways step in and arrest the mili- tant workers for defending them- selves, a tactic used in the famous Everett, Washington, battle. If they succeeded in smashing the center— and this is apparently what hap- pened—the police could come and “mop up’—as they did. At any rate, the authorities could always disclaim responsibility for the ac- tion, especially in view of the fact that the public is obviously behind the strike and there is no mass basis for these fascist attacks. A Planned Attack Every report coming out of San Francisco proves that the me- chanics of what happened was ap- proximately the following: The shipowners and the Indus- trial Association, their backs to the wall, seeing that the strikers, who moze and more were accepting militant rank and file and Com- munist leadership, organized a pian by which they hoped to isolate the militants from the rest of the strike, thus beheading the strike and leaving the door open for the pre-arranged sell-out with Van- deleu:, Kidwell, and the other re- actionaries in the strike committee. The first step in the plan was to organize a tremendous lynch cam- | paign in the press against the “Reds,” burying the issues of the strike. Along with this went the howl to the heavens about the lack of food for the “women and chil- dren.” The second step was the coast- wise radio speech of Governor: Mer- riam against “subversive elements,” followed by General Hugh Jobn- son’s pogrom address at Berkeley College. | The mobilization of federal forces | including Senator Wagner and Johnson, was an integral part of this plan. Thé third step was the organiza- tion of the Committee of 500 and the recruitment of hundreds of upper-class “citizens” as deputies. The fourth step was cooked up in Washington—the raising of the de- threat, particularly 2,000 Republic Steel Men Demonstrate For Recognition (Special to the Daily Worker) WARREN, Ohio, July 18.—Two thousand Republic workers of the Warren and Niles Amalgamated Lodges marched yesterday, protest- ing the refusal of the Republic to recognize their union. The parade, joined by 300 organized unem- ployed, led by the Unemployment Council and the Trumbull County Action Committee, shouting: “Turn the lock-out into a strike!” and “The unemployed won't scab!” A mass meeting of 5,000 in City Park was addressed by Louis Leon- ard, International Secretary-Treas- urer, and Clarherty, both of the A. F. of L., who praised the N.R.A. Steel Labor Board and the govern- ment, and expressed belief that the Republic would surrender without a strike. Before the parade started, the Trumbull County Unemployed and Relief strikers held a mass meeting and sent a delegation to the County Commissioners which won promis» of relief whether they worked or not. This meeting was held on the same grounds where A. A. men as- sembled for their parade, and hun- dreds of workers heard Dallet, of the Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union, who was the last speaker. Dallet pledged S.M.W.LU. support and urged no confidence in the International or local reaction- ary officers and the N.R.A./ Steel Labor Board. He proposed that the} lock-out be turned into a strike and the establishment of picket \fense League, lines immediate’~ | born workers. | seattered all over the sidewalk. — ‘tH LxNCH PRESS Repreduction of a number of front page car- toons in the California press. All of them picture the reds as the traditional bearded, bomb-throw- ing creature, By this lurid propaganda these against Bridges and other foreign- Here, undoubtedly, carried. They “might have been ; workers—maybe strikers,” organs of the shipowners, bankers and mznufac- turers, attempted to whip up a lynch spirit against the Communists and militant workers who are in the front lines trenches of the historic battle now going on along the Pacific Coast. WHO HAD COME ALL THE they WAY FROM HIS OFFICE WAY Madame Fanny Perkins was in- | said, They all wore leather jack- | DOWN TOWN. “JUST HEARD volved up to her neck. | ets. | ABOUT IT,” HE SAID. “JUST The military precision with which | They got away, they said. RAN UP TO SEE WHAT WAS the surprise raids were organized| “Where were the police?” we DOING.” (Our emphasis—S.G.) indicates that the military manuals | asked. learned by rote at West Point have not been entirely lost on the minds; of West Coast army officers. The coordination of forces points clear- | ly to the fact that the attack was | carried out in a military fashion and under a central command. The | United Press correspondent is forced to admit in a dispatch of | the 18th: “Raids were conducted efficient- They shook their heads. We went across the street and into the building. through the rooms, both floors, and nobody there. Soon the police came, four car- loads of them, sirens shrieking. It had been about ten minutes since the rock throwing. They did not question the witness nor start pur- | suit. They went right on into the Western Worker and Workers’ | That Galagher, the general man- |ager of the Matson Line, was not the only one who knew that the raid was coming off, is proved by the following Associated Press dis- |patch in the Times of July 18th: “The first indication of the con- certed drive against radicals came | from Charles Wheeler, vice presi- dent of the McCormick Steamship Line, who said in a talk at the Rotary Club here today that the We went all ly in San Francisco, Oakland and | Bookshop and finished what the | raids would start soon. He in- Richmond. | “hoodiums” had begun. They | timated government consent had “Mopping up after the vigil- | smashed every window and every | been obtained for the raids.” ance committees,” police con- Sern < oy tage rf bre Bee i e 3 ducted sorties of their own. They iocking glass and pieces 0+ ERE you have it workers of mill, arrested more than 300 suspected | chairs down into the street. | gs ; BRANDISH CLUBS mine, dock, field and office! Communists, aliens and agitators. | ttack: labor cent | They brandished clubs and |Fascist attacks upon labor centers All were charged with vagrancy. “There was nothing to show po-| lice and citizens conducted a co- | ordinated drive, BUT ACTIVITIES | FITTED SMOOTHLY TOGETHER. (Emphasis mine.—S.G.). Evelyn Seeley, special correspon- | dent of the World-Telegram, de-| scribes the events in the following fashion on the 18th: | We here having a sandwich at | the Maison Paul, that runs | through Market St. to Grove, | when waitresses began rushing to | the Grove St. exit to see what was | happening. We followed them, | went on out and across Grove St. | | therough job. to join the crowd that stared | across at the office of the West- | ern Worker, Communist news- | paper. GLASS FRONT SMASHED Its plate glass front was smashed, the shattered glass People in the crowd told us that | WAS “a gang of hoodlums” had driven | by and done it with rocks they chased everyone across the street, even reporters. But Herbert Lord, 27, they insisted on hustling in- side the building. When he came out his head was bleeding. didn’t do nothing,” he declared. When they got through there | the police raced up to the Work- ers’ School at 121 Haight St. followed, Police did not have to | do much smashing there. Twenty | men or more (“I guess they were | hoodlums,” said the cops), had driven up in cars and done a They wore leather jackets and heavy gloves carried rocks. They didn’t leave a piece of the place intact except the poster that stared out the window about “America Today.” , SEES “THE FUN” ONE OF THE FIRST TO AR- | RIVE AT THE SCENE—EVEN. BEFORE THE REPORTERS— |cism and the destruction of all | labor organizations and every right | that labor has fought for in decades HUGH GENERAL MANAGER OF THE MATSON NAVIGATION LINE, jand militant workingclass leaders— jattacks, by “government consent” «y | the development of fascism. a step in the defeat of fascist re- action. Unless we defeat these at- | tacks, labor of all shades of opinion will have its centers smashed, We | helpless victim of the exploiters. The moral is plain. | The widest united front of all | workers and all honest elements in the population against this re- | action must be built. Socialist | workers, Communist — workers,. | workers in the A. F. of L., inde- | pendent unions, Trade Union | | and Unity League organization, must unite to defeat these attacks. GALLAGHER, of bitter class battle. its | leaders jailed and will be left a Or else—the alternative is fas- General Strike Shows Growing Need for the “Daily” Circulation 12,000 Attend. ‘Funeral of 2 Killed by Cops Send Greetings To Men | at ’Frisco From Funeral (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 18. | Twelve thousand Negro and white |workers attended the protest a |mass funeral in the heart of the Negro neighborhoed of Mrs. Wil- |liams and Arsentini, murdered | Cleveland police at the Charity | office last Friday. | Over five thousand marched to | Harvard Cemetery, a distance of | five miles, behind the bodies of their | dead comrades and a huge banner reading: “They asked for bread— | Mayor Davis gave them bullets” | Additional thousands of workers jin 150 autos and trucks followed marchers to grave. All traffic on Central and Woodland Aven was at standstill for hours as the mighty mass of Cleveland toilers, in grim determination, paid their last re- spects to dead comrades and pledged with clinched fists to carry on the fight for which they gave lives Speakers i ded. Chairman Nalles, Negro worker, of the Un- employed Council; Onda, Italian Buro; Spelta, Communist Party; Murphy, League of Struggle For Negro Rights; Comrade Williamson spoke at grave. From the funeral the workers sent a telegram to Frisco General Strike Committee. 2,000 Defy Thugs In Fight for Rank | And File Control A.F.L. Workers Declare | Must End | CHICAGO, 18—Two til., July | A. F. of L. members roared their of the rank and file of the Ameri- A defeat of this type of attack is| can Federatig: of Labor against gangster control of unions at a | last night. Attempts to smash the meeting | which was called by rank and file members of Painters’ Local 521, were crushed by the militant ac- tions of the workers pzesent. | Faced with the mass determina- | tion of the crowd, the racketeers | Who had slugged and beaten mili- | tant members at union meetings, | crawled off across the street with- out daring to attack. Frank Robins, of Local 521, risked slugging and even murder to expose the racketeering gangster rule of A) Green over the local, and told in details Green’s record as a slugger and murderer. When the driver backed his truck into the crowd again he was sur- The Murine Strike and the Preparations for War N THE background of the murder and strike-breaking of the bosses and gov- ernment on the Pacific coast loom the war preparations of American imperialism. In the strike of the longshoremen and all marine crafts American capitalism sees a threat to its war preparations. American imperialism does not even con- ceal that it is preparing for war. The arena of the next imperialist war is on the Pacific. It is on the Pacific where the differences between the imperialist powers have reached the breaking point, making an armed clash inevitable. For this war American imperialism is feverishly preparing. It is building a bigger navy, it is re- equipping ahd mechanizing its army, it is increas- ing its air fleet, it is strengthening its naval bases on the Pacific. But in modern war such war preparations in themselves are insufficient. Ameri- can imperialism wanis to be sure that its rear is absolutely secured. It wants to be absolutely cer- tain of the smooth running of its industries pro- ducing war materials and, above everything else, it wants to be guaranteed of the uninterrupted shipping and transportation of war materials and man power. American capitalism is therefore determined not to tolerate any possible interference from labor organizations in such a vital and strategic war industry as marine transport on the Pacific Coast. The bosses are stubbornly determined to prevent union control of the hiring halls, that is, for the union men to determine who should load and unload their ships, at a time when they are pre- paring for war and especially during war time. Similar it is with the seamen and all other marine crafts. The bosses do not feel so sure with union men, even if their organization is officially controlled by the trusted, patriotic, conservative and “sane” leaders of the American Federation of Labor. What if these trade union longshoremen and marine workers should refuse to Mad and transport their troops, munitions and other war materials? What guarantee have they that these union longshore- men and marine workers will not come to realize that imperialist war is against their interests and the interests of the workers of all countries and refuse to load and transport ships in time of war? This already has happened in some ports on the Pacific. What guarantees have they, that this will not be repeated in the next war? No matter how willing strikebroatprs the A. F. of L. leaders proved to be, yet the bosses are not certain, that these leaders will be able to: control their men and prevent the anti-war strike actions of the marine workers. The longshoremen may strike, as they do now, in spite of their leader! j i American capitalism knows, that the situation preceding the next war is entirely different from that of the last war. The ruling class knows that ever larger masses of American workers are learn- ing that the last imperialist war was not in their interests. They also know that the relationships between classes in society today are much different from what they were prior to and during the last war. American capitalism knows that whse during the last war they had the unconditional support of the whole A. F. of L., without any organized and effective challenge of this betrayal by the membership, in the next war this situation may loc’. different. American capitalism knows that while during the last war the Socialist Party was the major political organization of the American proletariat, whose leaders supported the war or took an atti- tude of benevolent neutrality and pacifism, with only scattered séctions of the Party and a not yet consolidated left wing to challenge this betrayal, in the next war this situation will be different. The ruling class is well aware of the existence of a functioning Communist Party in America, which is already now leading and organizing the American working class to fight the war prepara- tions, which has a clear conception of what im- perialist war is, and when the next war does take place it will know how to organize the workers to fight for their class interests against their own bourgeoisie. This is why the shipowners and the whole American capitalist class are determined to break | the marine strike and the general strike in San Francisco. This is why the war department and the U. S. government as a whole are doing the strikebreaking and murdering on the Pacific Coast. all American workers to live, the right to organize and to strike. The general strike is the mighty answer of the American working class to the rulers of this country that they refuse to starve, that they will defend their trade unions and the right to organize. ' The resistance of the capitalists to the efforts of the workers to organize into genuine trade unions, their attempts to deprive the workers of the right to strike, their campaign to destroy the already existing trade union organizations, are all integral parts of the war plans and preparations of the Roosevelt government. An American working class organized into trade unions in which the treacherous A, F. of L. leaders are eliminated and isolated and the control of the organization placed in the hands of the rank and file membership is the most powerful weapon in the struggle against imperialist war.. Because of this every American working man and woman, every sincere opponent of war, must rally to the support of the general strike. The Pacific Coast strike involves the right of | rounded by angry workers demand- ing that he leave while he still could walk. He left. Sam Hammersmarth, of the meeting, an ex-member of the executive board of the Chicago Federation of Labor and now can- didate for State Treasurer on the Communist ticket, directly chal- lenged the gangsters to show their strength. “Where are these brave men who beat up our union brothers in meet- | shouted. The gangste:'s kept quict, huddled into a little group across the street. | Rumors had been widely circu- | lated throughout the west side that | Green’s gangsters would mobilize to smash the meeting, using every weapon and device possible. It is certain that there would have been an attack and probably bloodshed, if the meeting had been smaller or the workers less determined to pro- tect the speakers. When the A. F. of L. meeting was over, the Young Communist League put up speakers on the same corner. Gangsters that had not cared to face the mass of adult workezs with its fighting spirit, tried to redeem {their reputations by “heroically” throwing eggs at the youth. Des Moines Strike Solid; Enlarged Strike Committee | That Gangster Rule | ! great open air mass meeting here | chairman | | ings, who are courageous when they | | outnumber those they attack?” he | Militant Trade Union Leaders Urge Quick Action NEW YORK.—If ever anything showed the neeese sity of doubling the circulae tion of the Daily Worker and of getting at least 20,000 new readers by Sept. 1,” says Jack Stachel, acting secretary of Trade Union Unity League, “it the San Fra e. With the capi uting every kind of ie about the planned start of the volution’ in California, with the New York Times reporting that Communists are ‘shouting in high glee because the young and old will suffer, we have an unmistakable exe jample of the tactics employed by the bosses in their attempts to sup- Press the struggles of the workers and to villify the standard-bearer of rking class—the Communist the Daily Worker. Only Worker becomes a part enal of the worker can he the attacks of his enetnies.. It meet can become a part of this arsenal only every Party member, trade unionist, every sympathizer, puts his efforts inte this circulation drive.” Roy Hudson, National Secretary of the Marine Workers’ Industrial | Union: “The general strike in San cold-blooded, premeditated, fascist | thousand workers, fifteen hundred | Francisco shows the need of imme- diately getting 20,000 new readers | This is a huge forward step in| determination to support the fight | as the first step in doubling the cir- |culation of the Daily Worker. | Against the lies and provocations of | the bosses and their press, the Worker is the only straight- | forward journalistic weapon and or- | ganizer the workers have. It must | be brought to these workers. These | workers and all workers throughout | the country, employed and unem- ployed, must unders‘and the Daily Worker. To the members of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union I say—let each one of us get at least one steady buyer or subscriber for the Daily Worker. Ben Gold, National Secretary of | the Needle Trades Workers’ Indis« trial Union: “To the members of the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus trial Union, which is leading. the fight for higher wages and better working conditions in their indus- try, the Daily Worker is an indis- pensable instrument. The Dubine skies, Hillmans and other mislead ers fear it as their nemesis.““In strikes, as in the San Francisco gen- eral strike, it carries on an undying struggle against the terror of the bosses and their police and “Mili tary agents. It must be inscribed among the duties of every member of the Needle Trades Workers’Ine dustrial Union to work withou® stint toward getting 20,000 new readers. by Sept. 1 and in doubting the circulation of the Daily Worker by the end of the year.” DES MOINES, Iowa—The Unem- | | ployed Citizens League here, with} {450 members, elected five workers to the rank and file committee of | |25 which is leading the strike of | 2,000 relief workers, now entering | the third week of their strike for | a 24-hour work week on all relief | | jobs, 12 hours weekly for single workers, and support of the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill. A mass meeting held Friday ap- pointed a committee to seek the support of the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, A mass mecting held Friday ap- pointed a committee to seek the support of the A. F. of L. rank and file workers. James Porter, Communist, and John Nordquist, member of the rank and file strike committee are still in jail following their arrest Tues- day on charges of criminal syndi- | calism. Bail has been set at $4,000 | each. The City Council passed an ordi- | nance prohibiting all but seated per- sens in the Council Chambers. This | is done in an attempt to bar work- \ ers from Council meetings following | the packing of the City Council last week when the striking relief work- ers presented their demands, | Taxicab Drivers’ Union of Greater New York: “In the general strikes the taxi drivers have a powerful ally in the Daily Worker, through its exposure of the racketeers, strike= breakers and lying stories of the capitalist press. Every taxi driver must make the drive to double the circulation of the Daily Worker part the garage. NA Joe Gilbert, Organizer of ‘the and parcel of his daily struggle im