How the Strike was Broken
HOW THE STRIKE WAS BROKEN WOW(.,it can be told; at least, now it is told. Who broke the San Francisco strike? Who created the public opinion that made it appear that the gallant battle of the...
...Just how endless combinations of the letters of the alphabet is going to change this condition is not clear...
...A tremendous camp is being pitched to accommodate all the delegates...
...I told her not to lose hope...
...I am the Forgotten Man...
...And so we wonder who had the duty of telling the children of Vienna workingmen last February that their fathers had been slaughtered by big guns and by the hangmen's noose at the order of Dollfuss himself...
...The story gives a detailed account of how the newspaper jMiblishe rs of the San Francisco Bay region met just before the strike, selected a Hearst executive as commander-in-chief, and prepared to create public opinion...
...Later there is to be an evening program in the courtyard of the Palais Provincial...
...It's an awful thing to be compelled to tell two little children that their father had been murdered...
...The missus says that the nearest that she and the kids will get to a watering place ia the kitchen sink...
...If I am mistaken, Mister 'President, correct me when you reply, but the boys in Washington are tho victims of college courses in economics...
...In fact so intensive has been this study that my swollen feet are matched by my shrunken hopes...
...he was told that that "would be a compromise with revolution...
...Now that the tumult and shouting of the general strike is dying away, it is time to tell something of the inside story— how a Newspaper Publishers' Council came to the rescue of a besieged general public and broke a 'revolution' [quotes in original 1 without bloodshed by backing constituted authority and awakening public opinion...
...HELLO, MINNIE...
...Mention me to all the folks, As ever, The Forgotten Man...
...For a moment it may be hard to recall who I am, but not long ago you seemed much concerned about me...
...There's a New Deal, with Jimmie idling around as an English country gentleman (God forbid...
...But I am hep to some things thai tho Hrain Trust boys do not see...
...We Did It, boasts the capitalist press...
...All are in the same boat...
...Tho masses are drifting into the mire of pauperism, hopelessness and despair...
...It was filled with articles about the causa of the depression and It said that until the workers and farmers unite their power and vote together for their own interests instead of the interests of the capitalists, conditions wouldn't get any better and would probably grow worse...
...We don't seem to be getting anywhere with statistics, boards and commissions...
...The weather is awfully hot but the society notes in the papers say it's cool at the mountain and seaside resorts...
...Yes, indeed...
...For a few years there had been something of a coolness between the "big" men and the Hall...
...His confidence in NRA is oozing rapidly...
...Then he looked over to one side and saw the wife of a Tammany judge, an oJb| Oliver SiFeet neighbor...
...Destroying foodstuffs, cattle and cotton has not helped, not, if I may use a strong expression, a gosh darned bit...
...Not, we hasten to say, that Al made any public protest against the things to escape the consequences of which Jimmie made his hasty getaway to Europe...
...I am going to ask our preacher about it as he is always able to-find plan and design in everything...
...It was a definite, deliberate plant...
...The news of his murder was too terrible to impart to thorn at once, and the broken widow had to be very gentle and tender in her sad duty...
...And this is the 28th year of punishing and rewarding...
...Not just one labor-hating newspaper, but all the papers, acting in concert...
...In fact the drought has done a more complete job than all the huddles of the Brain Trust boys...
...This paper seems to have tho low-down on what's going on and there was lots of stuff in it just the opposite to what the other papers say about the farmers and the city workers...
...YOUNG Socialists from the world over will demonstrate their strength and solidarity at a three day rally of the International of Socialist Youth in Liege, Belgium, today, August 4th, tomorrow and Monday...
...Union leaders at Washington have declared that they will punish members of Congress next November for defeating certain labor legislation...
...The general strike was called off without settlement of the longshoremen's grievances...
...There are ten to twelve millions of forgotten men and women jobless...
...Editor and Publisher, the trade paj>er of the newspaper business, tells the story in its issue of July 28...
...The general public, by deliberate action of all the newspapers, were led to forget the basis of the strike in the longshoremen's grievances...
...It is interesting that General Johnson, according to the account, was prepared to grant the demand that the longshoremen's just grievances be settled before the general strike was called off...
...Who created the public opinion that made it appear that the gallant battle of the workers for human living conditions was a "revolution," to be smashed by force...
...That's what The New Leader paper said, you understand, Mister, President...
...They seem to be un•ble to plow under their combined misinformation, I, on the other hand, have put in almoHt five years ©f intensive study of our economic system (if any...
...In other words, the confidence held during the years preceding the year ll)2l» has sort of been walked off...
...By the way, nothing can stop Jim...
...WHO WILL TELL THEM...
...Looks like the foreign business In this line will improve soon...
...Well, even today some folks are making money...
...Which gives a pretty good picture of what the exploited masses can expect from "reforms," when the reforms come from the old gangs...
...Oh, we'll be in speaking terms in a couple of days...
...I don't mean to say that the Brain Trust boys aren't putting you wise to some things, suoh as gold reaervese, trade balances, the whereabouts of the Vice-President and the fence-fixing activities of the Postmaster General...
...Then came a session between the publishers and the General at which there was much hollering and table-banging, and the General was shouted down...
...I am sure that you are enjoying your vaction and that you find the ship as restful as you did Vincent Aster's yacht...
...No more jazzy Jimmies, no more blundering Jawns...
...You've guessed it...
...Hut all that is over now...
...Maurice Webb, leader of the English youth movement, attributed this growth to a realization on the part of the young people that only by the establishment of a Socialist commonwealth will they finally rid themselves of the menace of bloody fascism and annihilating war...
...Firearms, gas, tear and stench bombs used in Toledo, Minneapolis, New Jersey, Ohio, Wisconsin, Alabama, San Francisco, etc., seem to help dividends...
...A meeting of the Executive of the Socialist Youth International will be held on August 6th...
...There's a new Boss at Tammany Hall, and the blunders and stupidities of the past few years that led to lost elections are expected to be avoided (but nothing is said about avoiding the Grand Old Thievery...
...The difference between owning what others produce and producing what others own is the difference between the capitalist and the worker...
...It's an everyday scrap between the wealth producers and the wealth takers, and it's the wealth takers or capitalists who own the Democratic and Republican parties and so the laws are made to protect property instead of human life...
...it was a nice home-coming for Al and Jim and Wb...
...So A/I and Jim and Bob are back in Tammany Hall and they will wear the Sachem's scarves they put away in the mothballs in the now forgotten days, and A) will make speeches again, and Tammany will be back at the same old stand...
...While on your vacation possibly you are out of touch with events back here in God's country...
...So Al came back to Tammany Hall and sat down in his long-neglected chair...
...The "earnings" of the DuPonts and the Atlas Powder boys have gone up...
...Hearst himseif telephoned from England that a cabled account was coining of the wickedness and failure of the British general strike in 1926...
...and we wonder whether Frau Dollfuss thought about that at the time her husband was waging war upon women and children...
...No comment is needed...
...IT is reported in news despatches that after the funeral Frau Doll fuss tbok herself to Italy to break the news to her children, being cared for by Signora Radicle Mussolini, that their father is dead...
...An interesting sidelight was the report that the British League of Youth has increased its membership more than 150 per cent in the last eight months...
...No longer does he look for help from relatives...
...it will concentrate upon winning'election victories that will bring plenty of jobs to the Faithful...
...Al did not like Jimmie Walker and his works, and he made his absence from the Hall quite conspicuous, as well as his hostility to J awn Curry and Jimmie's other sponsors...
...Dear Mister President TNEAR Mister President: You may be surprised to receive this letter...
...And we wonder who will have the sad duty of sometimes telling Rudi and Evi that their father had ordered the slaughter of men and women and children in their own homes...
...Youthful workers representing most of the countries of the world will assemble bite today (Saturday) to parade in groups before the cooperative building of the Socialist newspaper, Le Populaire...
...There's the story...
...Al just didn't think Jimmie's personal conduct, what with his wife and Ins Broadway and Park Avenue friends and all, comported with his own idea of proper demeanor for a shining light of Tammany Hall...
...THERE were big doings in Tammany Hall the other night when the "Big Three"—Al Smith, Jim Foley and Bob Wagner—came back into the fold...
...PjS —Don't hesitate to ask »nj questions about the depression how we can-feV'out of it, when you write...
...Millions of others are working part time...
...He walked up to her said "Hello, MinnieP and kissed her, while all the Faithful cheeVed...
...After the dancing a torchlight parade through the town is planned...
...But to get back to the Forgotten Man...
...Why not lock out the ruling class...
...Sunday and Monday will be occupied with tremendous mass demonstrations which will be addressed by several international Socialist leaders including Emile Vandervelde, chairman of the Labor and Socialist Intematio/ial...
...Under a San Francisco date line we read...
...The policy will be "reward friends and punish enemies...
...Of those working, the average wage is less than $20 per week, according to estimates of the Federal Labor Dept...
...As he left San Francisco the General said that was the first time he had "ever been tip against a newspaper oligarchy...
...And a lot of Tammany people disapproved of Jawn Curry because his policies 4t'd to defeat, with consequent lack of nourishment to the Faithful...
...that story, in one form or anotjier, was printed in almost every newspaper in the country...
...Let's' see, isn't he the one who ordered the slaughtering of men, women and children In their Vienna homes last February...
...The long industrial depression really means a long lockout of the workers...
...The New Deal wUl concentrate upon selecting solid, virtuous men who stick to their own wives and prefer the simple pleasures of clubhouse pinochle (where the votes are) to night dubs and Broadway hot-spots...
...They were given a garbled account <>l the meaning of it all...
...and Jawn Curry is out of the picture...
...Youth Internationa...
...His bank savings have disappeared along with home ownership...
...Truly like the sign on our postofftce says of him, "Neither rain or hail, sleet or snow, slush or mush," I've just forgotten the exact words, can make him slow up his public services—for the Democratic Party...
...See the Socialist program for particulars...
...The other day a fellow gave me a third hand copy of The New Leader...
...By the way, I noted your expression of sorrow following the putting on the spot of Dollfuse by the mobsters of a rival gang...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 31
