DRASTIC GENERAL STRIKE DECISION ON COAST GOES TO VOTE OF MEMBERSHIP
Drastic General Strike Decision on Coast Goes To Vote of Membership LABOR COUNCIL LAUDS SOCIALIST an OFFICIALS MILWAUKKE. — The Federated Trades Council—central labor body of this...
...The workers of America were willing to capitalism try to raise itself by its own boot straps...
...All over the country American labor, young and old, radical and Mlservative, Socialist and anti-everything, is fighting in the front tie trenches of the class war...
...Please, Mr...
...The huge strike situations occur, the fwnendous Tjains are won by the workers, the outstanding militant tttles are waged, where the A. F. of L. unions swing into line...
...UCTURE OF CAPITALISM NACED BY STRUGGLE Just a little while ago and the first impulse of most workers was ¦"complain to the NRA...
...The South defies the NRA and defies again and nothing ppens—but the masses are getting wise to the game...
...The sheriff of Wisconsin County, Shinners, (opponent of the Socialist Party) was roundly denounced...
...Militancy, mass picketing, mass protest, mass refusal Vtako it-Tying dowr.—these are the signs of the awakening and jfs.Jisve little or no hope in what the new National Labor Relations Jpj m»y do for labor., [See Merman's Washington correspondence |Hi section...
...See KmiUi Dock tilmk<• Storitt Wi /'<>(/•' Four, Labor Unction) EDITOR COMMENTS a ohobtunity that Sit not be lost/ Jt MKRICAN Labor Is on the March" is no longer only a rhetorical flVpkrHi, All over the country the worker is getting sore, is kicking, UUriHaf oot...
...They're stepping out not for fun and not to win credit r the Socialist movement—not for "sectarian gain"—but because t place of the Socialist is with the workers...
...There's the whole question of putting more teeth into i| NRA and Section 7A than are revealed merely in a savage si-owl ¦ •threat to "crack down" some time . . . granting again that some¦yon top wants 7A defined and wants teeth in it, ¦ Then there are the dangerous situations inherited by the board— ligerous to the peace of capitalist society...
...A relatively minor strike gets Me publicity because a wealthy near-radical "mounts the barricades kr the workers' cause...
...With union after union voting support of the general strike, and teamsters ulready starting to ipiit work two days before the deadline they bud set, it hail looked us (hough no compromise could be stomached...
...Kor Archbishop lliinnu, the President's appointee a.s chairman of the National Long. shoremen's Hoard, did step out to pray, since human ingenuity i seemed of no avail in reconciling workers' wanta with capitalist*' greed - and archbishops know no other wuy tiut...
...In the past few days alone,'the Labor Editor is proud to march with hundreds of his comrades in the Caldwell tket line, to be pushed around with hundreds more by cops guarding trnell-Dubilier scabs...
...Besides, they're just u bunch of ¦nmunists...
...There's a feeling that's expressed by the old strike song, chanted the tune of the college ditty, "What'r \" Gonna Do When the Beer re« Out...
...better the New Deal than the old raw deul...
...Letters of appreciation were ordered sent to Mayor Daniel W. lloan of Milwaukee and Mayor M. V. Baxter and City Attorney Laurence C. Cram of West Allis, Wis., all Socialists...
...in New oik and San Francisco...
...The Federated Trades Council—central labor body of this city—this week unanimously voted its appreciation of the services rendered to the strikers in the recent utility company strike by three Socialist city officiuls...
...One of the first acts of th« »gt»n»7 was i* telegeuph'tfie abate...
...To the insistent questions of newspaper men, the answer came that the National Labor Relations H' aid had "tav formal statement to make" but had Wen advised that 10U labor cases were ready for investigation...
...The docks and the streets I the Pacific Coast ports are* a seething mass of discontent: Sun neisco is aflame, Portland is raging, Oakland is preparing for wur...
...The Central body is a delegated council representing 50,000 AFof.L members in 90 crafts...
...Editorial Guild On First Picket Line in Jamaica UEYWOOD BROUN, columnist, ** and Emily Brown, special writer and economist, headed a picket line of members of the New York Newspaper Guild which demonstrated for hours before the offices of the I>oiig Island Daily Press, in Jamaica, L. J. The demonstration is of particular significance since it is -the first time an open break has come in New York between a newspaper publisher and the newspapermen's organization...
...all right, let's give him the benefit of the doubt: a biritually useful demonstration...
...By E. t. F. (Social Corre$pond#net) SAN FRANCISCO.—The 12.000 member* of the International Longshoremen's Association in the coast porta will have to decide for themselves whether they want to arbitrate their different-en with the shipping masters against whose cruelty and treachery they have heen striking for nine weeks...
...In the oil fields und on the farms, in the city and mtry, discontent with conditions under the New Deal and repudian of "the blessings" of NRA are widespread...
...Garrison added that the board probably "would make haste slowly...
...Prior to his election he talked about his 'friendliness to labor.' Last week, In the Milwauee Electric Company strike, he showed what he really thinks of the Workers' right to fight for justice," Hen Rubin, member of the executive hoard of the council, told the delegates...
...And with American labor marches merican Socialism and Socialists...
...If its members try to do anything worth while— 1 Hid that they vrint to, that they have the power—they'll find their Ip cut out for them...
...It bail been expected that the workers would spurn the Federal board and plunge the whole urea into u general strike in a magnificent attempt to stop the bosses in their tracks, llefnre the conference it had been authoritatively stated Iluil no arbitration would be sanctioned of the control of longshoremen's hiring hulls...
...Public attention hus been turned to New Jersey because several millionaire liberals have been arrested recently while picketing for the Furniture Workers Industrial Union, a Communist organization, Throughout the nation, a vigorous fight has heen carried on 1)y AFofL and independent organizations to guarantee the right to strike und picket...
...The Guild is npt vet affiliated Behind the Scenes in Washington New "Labor Supreme Court" Set-Up— Whither General Johmon...
...Well, he responded to u hurry ill and helped stage a useless demonstration ,at a Hudson pier the Ither day...
...Sometimes I laugh when some Mnmunist friend of mine assures me eagerly that only his party thts for the worker...
...Be Twin Cities, the truck drivers will soon be out again, and both ranl'and Minneapolis face the threat of a general strike that won't 4 picnic...
...Boss...
...In Milwaukee's industrial suburb, West Allis, strike disorders flare lilt as pickets are tired upon and go after the scabs in retaliation, ere is unrest in the steel industry following an abortive peace tbut (led nothing...
...By Benjamin Meiman Sprcial Corre$iHtndttut WASHINGTON...
...Hut meanwhile the 71) unions in the Alameda County Central Labor Council governing the east buy area stand on record, as do other unions containing tens of thousunds of members, to tie up ever) thing and let hell break loose if the general strike cull goes out...
...The ban on picketing in Jersey City is similar to prohibitions in industrial centers throughout the country where lalxn has not been wide awake and aggressive...
...When all hope for anything but continuation of the bloody ami heroic struggle seemed gone, uiul when five hours of desperate wrangling before the President's new lion i (I produced no HigiiH of peace, the worke.ru' representatives suddenly agreed to submit the pro posal to a vote of the members...
...Mut at the lust moment the leaders, apparently, refused to take the responsibility for so drastic a step and one which might mean warfare on an unprecedented scale...
...The board consists of Lloyd Garrison, 87 year-old dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School, great grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, the famous abolitionist, as chairman...
...The vote of Ih* membership will decide...
...Faced with a stubborn and relentless section of workers, threatened with the breakdown and catastrophe of the walkout of 200 or more labor unions on the Western Coast which would tie up industry in u general sympathy strike with longshoremen, seuinen ami marine workers, the bosses said at last that they were willing to arbitrate...
...The capitalists in the plot -after lining every means foul and morn foul to smash the walkout, in the course of which seven men were killed and hundred* injured-are the waterfront employer*' union* in Frisco and Seattle, Los Angeles and San Diego, and the H4 major steamship companies operating in the I'ucitic Coast putts...
...SomeV' "^>'*m *ifp¦ ^^fff^trmmI .rati m Wi*t«4 p* Organized Labor Protests Jersey's Ban on Picketing Organized labor in Jersey City has thrown down the guge of battle tocivj) authorities in defense of the right to coHe*i4ive bargaining, to organization, to strike und to picket...
...Boss!'" Yes, labor is on the march...
...Professor former Massachusetts Commit*' sioner of Labor...
...hurruh for the nity of labor" . . . no more...
...They may huff and they may puff, but they W make a dent in the walls of capitalist contempt for workers' Vtl...
...We don't say "never again," but we Insist "not now...
...Only labor organization and labor's willingness to fight will I» the house down...
...the General is gonuu crack Hi...
...good old Bob Wagner...
...His evidence...
...What are vou gonna do for a shorter day...
...Protest is articulate i makes itself heard in spite of cops and courts, insults anil inStions, clubs and cunning...
...Give the •ident a chance...
...What are you gonna do when you want more pay...
...irging amd INTROSPECTION llO substitute FOR WORK |tBut where the party members are lost jn the mare of their own Itase-pursuits and purity-purges, or where they allow themselves to « completely absorbed in non-essentials or fatalistic fallacies, the Ut...
...into the strike .situations creeps a new note of menace for the ly system of capitalism...
...About la bundyvd labor strikes and disputes w*re presented to the newly appointed National Lubor Relations Board when it opened its modest headquarters ill Washington last Monday...
...Despite [I that has been taught to some youngsters in the ludical camp, this .hting spirit is not surprising, considering the traditional aggressiveas of the American labor movement...
...The unanimous vote of the Central Labor Union of Hudson County, calling on "all public officials" to stop interfering with pickets, was all the more striking in that Mayor Hague, at whom the resolution was chiefly directed, has for years been the "special friend" of organized labor there...
...Meiman mentions M of them...
...work of the party suffers, Somewhere, it is whispered, party ftterans sit on their once active haunches and say Socialism's inevitable, I why bother about that strike...
...to address three other strikers' meetings, and notice his comrades everywhere on the job...
...So the matter goes, to a vote at once...
...j "What are you gonna do for a chance to play...
...And wherever our party memrs and our Yipsels are alive and on the job, they're in the thick of e melee...
...Boss...
...Yes, 'even when the irkers don't want us at first, as was the case with the I.L.A...
...Sometimes they arc, and they're just doing the bosses' fctrk, wittingly 0r unwittingly...
...The action of the lenders of the striking longshoremen and the strategy committee which had in chinge the pending general strike of tlie Sun Francisco Labor Council cHinu mm u coniplt'te surprise to those wlio waited . . . mill those who p r u y e (I...
...Sometimes they are, and they're doing jfwell j»b, fur a while, and you gotta give them credit...
...ITike a look at the problems facing the board...
...He told how the barbers strike ended because of the prohibition of picketing and how the slaughter house strikers lost for the same reason...
...i The city standing ut the gateway ut the Pacific faces class Tvaifure on a scale perhaps undreamt of in the United Stales...
...Boss...
...Anthony Danvu, sei relury-treasurer of Ixx-ul ',W,\, Journeymen Barbers' Union, introduced the resolution...
...Pleatf, Mr...
...Hague, who once boasted when he wanted labor's support that no strikebreakers could enter Jersey City, has hung out a sign saying '•nly scabs welcome'," Dunva charged...
...No—it's fight, fight, fight, fight, fight,1 fight, fight— NOT 'Please, Mr...
...Now it's to strike—anil to strike hard...
...Socialists huve in innumerable canes been in the forefront of this buttle...
...Pleast, Mr...
Vol. 17 • July 1934 • No. 76
