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chnin of n9Wf1papers is carrying on ou.c;h but Hen.:cst 1 s J~ellow .1ingo a crunptd.gn ac;a inst American worl<:- j ourno.ls led all tne rest in fil ­ers , tho unions A.lld the v1hole or- th7 lying and in tho ir domsnds for ganized labol' moveme11t in a Fas - the crushing of the strike by any cist mo.n.r.er . and all r1ea:1s inclnding rnurd9r of

So vicious and fj lled with dan- strikers a.nd !lytr.pathizers . gers for WO»,_ing poop;,<;> is this Heal'•st is lWV/ l1LAZING 'l'H.8 TRIAL Hearst-Fa~c1st drive that lt be- FOR A NEW OPEN SHOP, fiLiON St.~ASH­con.es a matter of vi tal necess it;" INC H·4D WLGE CUT IA~IV3 BY TH3 OR­for all wage- earne::::-s , and esrec 1a- GAiiiZED R!~JPLOV .ffiS . Th~ employers lly fo ::::- all mari t ... me ~.orke:r•s on in the big industr:es, the ( D.trc;.bl3 the Wast Coast , to be cle&r on Goods Industries) we~ting in Eot wh!lt !1eux·st is t::-ying to do , why Sprin£s, Ark., some thj,"OO 11tonths he is trying to do it -- and to an ago , .~dopted a progr·a!n, published swer Hearst and tl~e big banker'S;" in tl.e New Yo1k Times and othar ~whom lle spank-s-in a decisive pa).)flrs , whi~h called for 'l:'AJ~ CUTS way . "War:,es to b3 adjusted to profits u;

All union men know what the it called for tbe abolition of Hearst papers - the E::;;:aminel" and II ALL LIMITAI' JOf-TS ON TH~ FOURS OF the Ca:Ll - Bulletin J.n San Francisco WOfU(II - longe ..... hou:.:•s ; th.Enr pxmgram all the Hearst sh&ets ln other Pa- demanded th~ lifting of alJ re­cific Coas'~ O:i.ties -- did during st:dct:toTis on the right of big com the ·vaterfront strike and the gen- po.nies to combine with other big eral strike . Th~y were the sheets companies TO Jo'CRM STILL LARGER that lied a.nd slanaered the str~k- AND- MORB POW ;;nFUL '11RUSTS . ers, thei:r organizations and their 'l'he big employers (iron .and leaders in the vilest wa~ ever steel , oil, auto , textile, eluctri seen in any lebor struggle . John cA.l macl1jnary manufacturers , ship-Franc 1.:: reylan, Hea:est ' s chief ~ng comoanies etc . ) are organiz-legal t..dviser , was sent nere by ing , \.lth the help of tlle govern­Hearst to 1'/0l'k with tno I~dustrial ment, 1n01•e powerfull ·r tran ever Association, tha water:ront Employ before . ~hey ~re going to try and ers Un.lon , +he police, the "vigil- inc rea so thelr alj."eo.dy huge pro­antes,; a:t1d 'the so- called uc 1 t iz- ft ts by spaQd:f.rJ.g up worlrer·s, cut ing ens Gonmittoes 11

, AND ORGANIZ~~D ALL wnges , for0~ng workers to toil POSSIBLE FORCES TO EREAK THE ( tl d ~ , ,age ,Column 2 ) STRIKE. Con nue 011 naxv J:'

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(CON'riNUED FR0M Fil <~T PAGE ) longer hours for tl:..e J3flll,e pay and USE TB:ci: CRD1UTAL SYNDIOAi.,ISII' LAW AND OTHER LAWS 'l'!I~'Y Al:tE GonrG TO D~MAND CONGRESS TO PASS, ar,ainst any0ne or any organization which roslsts this new hunger and stave progrrun of theirs .

FUrther, the new govei•nment scheme for unemployment "relief" is a schema TO CUT DOWN the scantv rel ief now handed out . This new scheme was demanded by Hearst , h1.s chain of something like 110 papers and magazines, and by the big em­ployers for whom he and his yapers speak.

This new attack on the uneJrl­ployed, intended to make their condi t; i.ons so much worse that they will be forcee to s~ab whenever they get the chance , and thereby help to slash wagos , was announced by Daniol Roper, u. s . secratal'y of Oon.titJercu, s,~Rking to the 11Congress of Jl.mer.tcan Industry 11 ( f>!_'ganizod by tho National Ma:m.l.factural:"s Assoct~tion) speaking to this me eting in Now York City on Dec-6th .

LHC T,.ENB.'.CU ClV~WS ~JJ17 8 DAY STRIKE I . S. tJ , ~A~RS TRY S~l~OUT MOVES .

The 8 Clay s t riko of the seamen on the :Rubert, DDrothy, Jacob and part of tho crow on the Lewis Luckenbo.ch, has been won.

The ct,&ws won tho following in­c-rua.ses in ua-q- -- AB 1 s .from $35 to $50 , firemen f r om $36 to $50, oil­er s $40 to $60, moss boys $24 to $40 . Tho ehi:>oy,rners were forced to take back all stri kars and not to ca:rry on any cii sc >' l.ruination ag­aiust anyone for tLl"tion R.ctivity .

This victory wa s won f r om the greedy shipowners desoite tho stt"ike breaking methoda us3d by the r .s .u. ofticials and the order­ing of the longs!'lorem~m baclc to work by Dist . Pros . Lovlis . The rank a~d filo longsho~ereen told Lewis to go to Hsll and stuck ~ith tht.l ~trik1 ng serunen .

Tho r.s.u. offic~als refused to declare the strik3 offic1allv and did everything pons iblo to stab th~ strilwr~ 5.n tao bacl:::, but tho .:t . s .u. rank and file mo1ab0rs work­ed togatlHn' w 1 th the Marine Work­i3r;-: Industri!ll tJn1on and succoedad in set t..lng uu a l'Mk and file st!':l.ke conutti tt0o. Tld s striko Oom­mi~too m~irtained connact i ons be­t•Noun the lo~1gshoren .. on and toam­stors, who t'\:Jfusod to tO'llCh any onrgc that h~td anything to do WJ.th Stl,UCk ships •

This soli~arity ectton b~tweon tho big 3 on the wa t erfront again proves tho noooss1ty of building a Marine Fade.ra-tion as soon as lJOs­siblc .

Th3 shipo-rmors and fa.kors d:road and roar such ~an~ and file notion that won bettor concitions on tho Luckonback ships .

This new schetn.e, as announced in the S. F. Exrunine r for Doc . 7th, has four main points; 1. ) Shift relief responsibiliti l s from the Federal Govtn .. nment to states aad localities) . This means that the millions of unemployed , whose num­bers a~a ~creasing daily, are to look for food,clothing and ahelter to the state govrn·nment and city governments THAT AK~ ALREADY BANK­RUPT . It rr.eans still worse hungar and actual starvat~on . 2 . ) 11Conct)n trate on needed .public works which will not conflict with private in­vestments and pr1.vat3 industry . " This mecns little if any public work--and THAT TO :BE CARRIED ON AT C OCL IE WAGES .

All workar~ should soo cl~arly now , through the rich expor1.vnoos of tho pa~t ~onths , that the fak­

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DEC ..!.;'\1BER 24, 19 3·1 VIA'Jlt.;!tFHCWf WOH!<:c:R PAGE 3 I

I BZI.IEV_'J IT OR N02'?? I Joe Johnron donates his ·.veokly

wa[r.es to the st!_'i.tH.ng Bergeman • .

Stand- By For Tbe Fun , Our idea of a Roman Eol:!.da:y.····

would be when Big Emil Larsen and the Ohm b'J"others ship out of the I . L. A. Ha1.1 .

NOI'-~:J.'.W:::t:'f) (o}EN%.ML_ EUBLIC We, the ~:~iciel~ of the Blue Book herl)by tor•t:':c~ honorary membe't'shlp upon Jonu ::.;~s.ln.nder , Charlie I!Jl thy and Geo . I!aakell , 11 that Pop - Eyed Rascal''

(S.J.gned) Witnesses--

WA..Wl'..!~D A'!..' QNCE :

E'nll Stein ScA-bby Peterson T. C. . Plant

Ru~r...~ ,,lames to call the tv11te rfront Wvr.ce1• . send dir~ct to Pacific Seamen OR seo E. Heuval , Lincoln Hotel

AT LAS'l' - ---- --- - ------SUCC .d:SS J wa, at last , found out one reason why tho U. S . Steel Co . ships :fihk crow~ .

so Mcl'feil and Gribben can stea:l the gea~ more easily .

WA~TED:

Good reliable press agent to get the u.c. football taam some favor­able puoL.G i tv . N0 -·r G '1 1 ('E;j apply . Con!;•tct U,C . ;r>octball Manager •

(Ed's . Notes . We .001-rT Bali ve It)

NO MORE THUMBING fliDES • . .. .

Whon is Local 38- 79 goinG to buy tho Busihvfls:ageht'S ::t.·eaJS tlnd ... scop clutto~ing up tha Embarcadero by thiL'abing rides?

H:WVAL CAUGHT COPYING MINUTES CHAS3D ~~OM OFFIUR

The other day E. Reuval was chased out of the I. L. A. Ofi'ice . He was cP.ug:~t cop~Ting f1•om the min­utes of our regular meeting::~ . What this mug is doing in the I . L. A. an~va~ is a mystery to mahy. clut to others his m~ssion is very plain -- he refus~s to work long­shore - - he is always well dressed if you notice his feet are a trifle flat - and there is an old saying, "All policemen ha.vo flat feet' '.

He is President of the Water­front Merchants Association, which is, only a racketeering organiza­tion. Be is also employed by the Regal Amber Brewing Co . to boo3t the snle of their beor . He is con­nected with the Pc..cific seaman, tho papar of the I .s.u. fa~er~ , which urges the men to accept finks into the Union .

w~ cot rid of poli~s agents , such as ~.1cNul ty, Edninister 11nd the lik·)S . 'Nhy can 1 t we dumc this egg over~oerd? He is tho~c for no good reason, don ' t m1~tak0 tb11t .

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. There is norr.a o o:r.!..'Tlen.t a:rr.one. tllA Ma.tson rnen whetho.~.· it wa.s correct or not for t h<j Wai;crfrort "/or.Ker to publ~r.h !l letter fro:.t 11 A ;,la.tson Man", telJ i ng hew the.v hnd sloy.;ed down on t he j ob anu fo :•c·, a. the Mut son Co . t 0 e t or sanding scab v~lk­ing b0s .3e::; across the bay .

S~ne o~ t h o Matson me~ are us ­ing the argument tl.~.a.t by publish­i ng such a letter tha.t we ard tlp­pi ng our hsnri to the e'Upl oyers .

Well , if you lock at the rec­o r d of the A. F . of L .. mi sl9adors you will flnd t11.a.t those b~biea advcca tad t:1e S!Bl•le thin3 . The fq ­ker~ wo t'b~d so sec r etly with the employ .. n--~ th~l t the m~mborship did not know what tho Holl vn.s hapDen­ing until tho,r wer e f:;t'~ed to no ­capt a sellout a r,rn8ment . This soc rot ::; tu..fi' worl::s fine fo r th-3 employ·3r~• c.nd 1'akel'~ .

If you rern.embe~ correctly , cur first negotiations ~ith the ship­owners , tln·ough the five and f ive COm."Tli l;t0" 1 n lr.l by the r'l'ty 1 .McKenna w~s on t.ha t coMni t ~.;oe , vtore co.rrioQ. on in secret . The lht3T!1'oershlp did n o t hear a word frol'l the comm:: ttea fo r six \'106-Kd , except , " p r ogress wa s being rnade 11 • So much progress was mudo that the mernbershin de­cided to ntrllce . \"'t t h a l l thosG fo.c ts fre~h :1.1! our n1incl8 somo of the b r others want t o go back to t he seo ~et nap,otiations - no doubt to builu a fovr mor'1 cnsc,y- rs , V£lnd ­a l eur ' s nnd Padre PatJ ' ~ .

The A. F . of r... • ..:'A.kvr~ went into powet' by ~ocrvt n, ~ot l&tlo~s ~nd

by assurnir ... , the power to sottlo all grievances . I t i3 on thbao grounds tlRt the fa kar3 and tho milita!1i; r·Slnk and file ti~ffcr .

Any crg~n:!.zation th~t intends to g ot h~tt~~ conditions f or its m~:r.Jb ership In,.l.st hu ve !l pol icy un­derstooc! b y ·"Jvory member . I f any­body is r.c stupid o.o to bolteve thut an ore"ln:lzat.Lon can adopt a. socr9t policy or progrrun th:1.t th.u employ~)rc wiJ.l not le"lrn about is crazy .

Tho dny e.ftor OUt' las t m0mb.:>r Ship maoting Scabby BrJe.h told ou~ con!Wit·lje0 q'ti.to :'1. few thingo that happened at cur :!..ast memb .)r ship mooting . r:oe!;; thnt J:Tie::tn that th~

I . L . A. \'J J..Jl fold \.1p . DECID.Ea::LY NOT . :l1hOC3 r :'lts must bo vToed·3d out .

In t-.h~ cnso of the ?t:'itson Co . wasn ' t t h o point won? T~o men slowed rlc;'ln because thoy did not want tv work V>~ i th ~cabs . Huronftol·~ ·

tho comp !li!:V l::ecps tho 3ca.bs at tho homo dock .

To point out tho suocoss of s triking on tho job to all stovod­o r os wnn thv task o.f t'-lc Wt.\turfr ont Wo r ker . we dld 1 t . I t r s a :Clnc~1 ,

if tho Mntr;o.r Co . d i Ul 1 t l'ilca i t ,

t~1.0 cth .) r comp:.1.nies won ' t . Whnt caa thoy do about !t? .Absolutvly noth..i. ng .

It is the fakers 1 policy, to • st1flo all s~rugglos ond to wor k in .Jocr•tt with t'bo mnploy urs , but it J.:'l t"10 task of aJ 1 militar~ts

and a ran~< and f'ilo papo1~ , such es tho V!a.. t ,)ri.'ro .. 1t Work~..;r , ·co

put bofo r 0 tho 11trn nlJ details to bu i'ollov1od tc .n.n b.:lttor cond- e it1..ons .

'rl'H:1 Wa. t Jrfr nnt Worl.(or will co n­t inuo such a polj.cy .

IFGRAM ' S BOYS GET GALA RECEPTION :SCAB PLAYERS CARRY OW~~ BAGGAGE. •

On Fr lday, Doc . 1 4t h , th~ Gol­den Bears , h0:1d.Jd by BilJ Ingr am, arrived at P1cr 46 to go aboar d tho Pros . Taft to s~il fo r Honol­ulu .

Upon their arrival at the <.lock e thov rocvivod n tromundous ov!ltion not' fron t lo lr fri vnds "'..nd admir ­o r3 1 but from the m~ritiuo workor a g'1t'1~rod thor) to bo0 and hiss tho col:!.(;~ga-brod s cr,bs , \"hO f inked dU!' l.l1(-; th\"~ 1Ml.J.'1l.LO Rtr iko of l as t ,:ummor 11 ,iu~d~ t;0 koop in sho.po 11 , as • Scr.J..b Ingr:J.l sa td .

Tho collogo rcab~ got the sur­pr~ 'l o of 1.1 o:t~ lifo , thoy coul dn ' t so n:1 to gx·c.sp t ho s :.gnifica.nc o of it :,11 . rvo be n football playrn~ i n an .Amoricrr1 col) og11 is to bo a horo and ~~;)t auro wor o tboso mar i - e ti.110 wor k or·s r o.fusing t o ~nan a ship th-1'! v• .J J-''0 to .':i!li l on . · .. sut lug Ging t h oi r baggage aboard amid tho boos 'ULd c~ios of f ink, scab,, an'l ::.':-.t , tlLo boy2 hrd somuthing t o thinl~ c boi!4t .. ·~.7- _ . ..• ··:.1 • :. , ......

Tho ·;1i\lkc..ut of tn . .;·: f.:nt t::o-· c:.Hipl:! e c ro~1 c'n tho P l ' O s • 'l':u·t , inc 1 ud ..Ll1.g tho longahoromon and tv&li.St ·Jrs , .f r om tho ~l3ppor dow11 to thJ mnss bo , is Ol;E! o.f the bright~~t spots i.n tho histor y of t he bmer•ican woz•ki11g class up to the rras unt tL~0 . Thb grout d~onstration of e workina cJnss nolidarity wil l so down in h.Ls tor y . •r::..,e shipow11ars n.nd. OJ1ip1v)r&rs shiv0r in fea r a.t sn~h £le t s of unity . I t was be ­causa of tho o f fuctive p ro teats w~god agn1nst Scabby Ingram tha t caus~d hi)J' to lo.;e his job as head e coach at u.c.

The #Ol kors and militRnt s t u ­dents h~vo showr. that they will not tol ernte scnb- horder s and baby "HltlAr s " to UtJP. our public ins t1-tu~ 1 ons a~ iosc:st f"lcto r ies .

I ngro. n, tho Univej,•slty a uthor-. e itles a11d the amp eyers h ava lonrr..ed: lesson. Ald the wor ko r s ubov~ nll have hLG i driven home e.g a iH, soli.dari1~y a · .d un~ ty of action w. l : £ o rce ~ ~ shlpowne rs to tho i r ln oes bt.gf i. ' lS for me rcy •

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THE CrR~AT SAN li'RANC ISCO G~NEHAL STRIKE. (Writ ten bv Wm • .F . Dmne . )

With the special permisf.ion of the author, 1,11Jrll . F. Dunne , the Waterfront Worker is pleased at this time to print an extraction from that very authoritive pamphlet THE GH !JAT SAN FRAiiCISCO G~N.t£RAL STRIKE. This pamphlet is on sale at the Worker ' s Bookstore , 37 Grove St ., or f r om the Western Worke~ salesman on the waterfront every day.

DELilld!RAT ~y OHGANIZED B£."'TRAYALS .

San Francisco , July 23 .- Many , if not most , of the betrayals in American labor struggles have been more or less accidental or organ­ized on the spur of the moment . The san Francisco betrayal was planned in advance . It was deliberate .

The "real leaders or organized labor" -- as Mayor nossi of San Francisco and t;he press call them­have begun to talk: secrets a1~e

bein~ told . There is a wonderful atmosphere of good fellowsh~p even though there is no honor among the members of the cabal which con­spired to "go along" with the gen ­eral strike, demanded by the reso­lute workers of the ten maritime trade unions headed by Ha~ry

Bridges, in order to betray it , The potent drug that is dis­

tilled by the process of fratern­ization Wlth the great has gone speedily to the heads of the 11 real leaders of organized labor ." Fawning on Farley, wrangling with Wagner to divide the ranks of la­bor , shaking hands with General Johnl:lon and giving slavering ap­proval to his fascist denunciat ­ions of ConJJ11uni:.:;ts and all hone.:Jt .. ly militant working class loado.rs from whom Hyan, Vandeleur and Com­pany were unable to alienate the rank and file of workers, these "gentlemen ' s gontlemon 11 of the American robber class are making some.revo~ling statemonts .

First en the list of loose talkers is one Joseph Patrick Ryan National Fresident of tho Interna ­tional Longshoren~n ' s Association . In trying to selt)ct the most im­portant and characteristic of his recent utterances ono suffers from an emba~rassment of richvs .

Perhaps the statement most J.n­dicative of the defeatist conspir­acy - practically \/ithout parall.:;l in the an!"..als of the American la­bor movement - to deliver R mass strike movement into the hands of its cl~ss enemies , is that con­tained in Ryan ' s telegram to Mayor Rossi published in the S . F . News for July 20 :

11 As one good pal to . another wish I were with you . It will ail: come out all right 11 •

Little comment is needed on this effl..tsion. It is directod to the mayor whose police shot and killed two members of the union of which Ryan ia pr7sident , and wound dad 32 more by gunfire upon un­armed pickets .

It is direct;ed to the mayor, whose police protect the fascist bands nov1 beating up striking mem­b0rs of the I . I .• A.

If Harry Br•idges and the mari­time trades st rike corru,litteo dosnt have photosta.tic copie~ made of the S . F . News ' story and distri­bute some 50 , 000 of them to water­front workers , they are far less able than we think they are . If Ryan thinks he can get away with this kind of stuff merely because General Johnson denounced Bridges in his speech yesterdny in tho Hollywood Bowl ho is completely ig norant of the temper o~ the men upon whose dues payments he lives ,

But l"arol·y do Cor.nnunists have thoi~ est~nntes confirmed so rap­idly a.s by Ryan 1 s another state­mont :~.ssuod in New York, and sent out by the Unitod Prens . Tho wave of righteous indignation wh1ch ce.rr.e from the 11 :.."oal l~aders o~ or­ganiz,1d labor" ln the Central La­bor Counctl of san Francisco - and wh:~.ch p~ompt~d tho pr ess to go in­to spanms of anti- Communist dia ­tribos - when it was reported hdro that Earl Browdlr , sneaking for the Central Committee of the Com­nlunist Party, had v1rl tton ili tho ]):lily Worker that those loaders had he.~tded tho gener al strike in order to bo in & position to be­tray it, wns somothin[.; to write homG about •

J . P . Ryan obltgingJ.y mnkos tho concrote ~dmissions that wore lack ing to make tho indictment pro ­forr3d by Drowd.; r fe.ctua.lly com plotv . In tho TJ. P. dispatch from Now York, dated July 20 , tho S. P. Nows says :

11Consercntive union loaders sanctioned tho S . F . gonoral str~ko to force a shownown and terminate the activities of Harry Bridgus , radical longshoremen ' s leader , ac­cording to Joseph P . ~an, Pros . of tho I . L. A •

uTho longshoremen ' s chief said that when ho roached tho Wust Coast last May he fo'tmd tho griov­anc()s of tho maritima workers roal but that tho omployvrs had ro­fus0c.'i. to doal with thorn because the West Coast · lonc;shoromon do not havo rooponsiblo loadorshtp 11 ,

"In his contacts with Mr . Bridgos , r:lr . Hyan sn~d, ho found thut tho man would not bo bound by ma,ior:i.ty foo lJ.ng t.nd that ho v:as following u course of arbitrarz doclsions •

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SCALL!:RS R.J!FUSED STRIKE BENEFITS . SHIPOWNERS R.t!;WARD " LOYAL EMPLOYE~S "

Editor : The Internntjonal has !efused

to pay strike benefits to the seal ers, ruling that they are neither i n strike nor locked out . The Lew­is 11greement , di"awn up and already signed by the 3caler contractors 11 i s so good" , to use Lewis ' own words , "That t'1e scalers can ' t ev­en go worlt 11 • That ' s what you cnll real (?) trade- union leadEn·shJ.t) , a leader (?) signs an agreement and it is so good that the :men can ' t return to work because the con­tractors won ' t pay the wage called for. That is a good one . Now you tell one .

we have always said that Lewis was dumb, but we never thought ·he would try to crQwl out from unner a situat~on by using such a phoney excu.::;e . W.ell , live and lea1~n .

Boca.use of this good (.1) con­tract , the men sre denied work . Ryan ~nd Lewis r ule that the mon are not entitled to striko bene­fits becau::3e there is no s trJ.ke, but Lewis cculd nnd did dr aw his sixty bucks a week nll dUl." ins:; the maritime strike . \\loll , . ooltl.ing r ight doNn to it , was Lewis on strike? By an accur ate check it was found Lowis , the Distr:.ct Pres attended two strike committoo meetings all during the stri.ke . Pretty good, we ' ll say. Ryan, the International Pres ., didn 't attend any althm.J,gh he was sent special invi te.timts via vvest~rn Union .

A f'eke::.." will alwa.ys remain a faker no matt~r how much he tries to deny it; his act~ons speak for themsclvos .

A Rank and Fjle Scaler .

Editor Waterfront Work~r :

One of the negro longshoremen on Iior 35 , who scabbed durii1e; the strike c~Me OVQr to seo Doelker about going to wo~k. Doolkor told tho negro to go dowu and register; tho scC.1.h replied tl!a. t he had bo0n down thore but the longshore­man cha.sod him a·11o.y . Loelkor thon st,id that h<3 VIas sorry and the best thing ho CO'Jld suegest that he go got a job with the SerR . Of course , tL.0 scab was pretty much put out to think that after all tho promises tho shipowners made to t}'1e negroes a bout koeping them after the striko \'/ttfJ ov ..1r was only so much hot air .

Well this fellow cfln sov now that the shipm~rnor~ aro liko all othor omploycn~s ; that they only uso tho workors for what they can g~t out of then: . Promises don ' t moan if .th1:~g . _ · ':Vho only '.way any worker can safc- gUP.rd his lnt&r~st is in a wor king class organization cont r ollud by the rank and file . Tho wo rkora , r egardles s o:f raco , color or cr~od, m'tst organize and stiolr togcthor . Tho sooner, wo , ·,iorkors , 1oo.1·n this silllpl0 fact th~ tottor off wo ~11 will bv . Tho murine strike oponod lots of wo rk­..>l's:t uy )s tG tlp truo , situation and now thoy can soc wo must fight togGthor against our cxploitors

and not against Oflch oth~r .

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DJ!D.&rnER 24, 1934 WAT~FROHT WCR!CER PAGE 7 ----------------------------RIDE IN TfiUCKS UF COUNTRY

GAS CHOKES ST EVl::!DORES .

l))ar Editor :

The other week a couple of gangs went up country on oil on the M. S. Carriso . It wns a Flood job and we had to travel from the Ferry to Point Pablo in trucks and believe me , brother, the tear gas during the strike had nothing on the gas coming from that truck , The exhaust pipe was broken and coming down the hills the gas would almost bnrn your eyes out besides choking you up that yo~ could hardly breathe . The truck driver, of course , was a union man but I can 1t see why the union through the dock stewards , can't force the shipowners to give us decent , wc.rm union-driven, trans ­portation, when we go up country. I understand the Greyhound busses are fink ,

As it was raining two days that we were there , we couldn ' t turn to~ Now ~ if we had gone u~ in unlon-dr1ven busses , we could have sat on the nice , wa1~1 , soft seats instead of wandering all over the ship l ooking for a dry spot .

I think the question should be taken up at the next dock stewards meet:tng and settled -- that all gangs going up country go in un­ion- driven busses . I thank you .

An Agitator .

WOR!\D;G G t HL PRAISES W. W • RAPS STZV~-A-DOOR #3879

Editor, waterfront Worker:

Congratulations to the Water­front Worker fo r calling the bluff of steve- A- Door, Book No . 3879 whose lettar you published and ANS'v/ERED in today ' s issue , ~cam­ber 17 .

You answer to Steve- A- Door, must have foJzt like a sock in the jaw after his defying tho Worker to publ:tsh his letter, if you waron rt iltoo yellow" . The laughs on you, lllembe::&."' ( 38r;g) • We all hope your questions v!aro answored correc tl~r .

Keep tl1e good work up , E:d, any paoer or publication that hits the nail on the head as the Waterfront Worker, deserves praise .

No , I am not an I . L. A. man . I'm just a workinG girl , who reads evvr-y is st..e .

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LEWIS -- JORNS01~ SPLIT BARGb"'M~N' S STRIU. DJ:£i'...L ' S F!tRRYBOATMEN SCAB

ON BARGEMEN ~.ar F.d :

While tho Bargemen's strike is 100~ effectiva, the Lewis - Johnson machine is working overtime to get the Ba.rgel!len to accept a sellout agreement .

This is being done by continu­ally bringing in ronorts about the five companies who are willing to do business with tho I . !.. . A. Tho two major companies, Crowley's and Bay Citios , according to tho n~­chine, don rt rucognize the str!kb and are unwilling to como to any tOl'mS •

The strike was called for an eight hour day, 85 cents an hour, $1 . 25 overtime , The machine is ad­vising t hd men to accept a settle­mont which tho five smaller comp­anies agree to pay, 67 t :o~t~

an hour between 7;00 A.M. and 7:00 P. M. and 85i ovart~mo . What docs this mean? Noth:tng, but solit ting tho union. One half of the men will bo s~nt back to work with a little incrua.se,whilo tho others rocu1ve nothinc;, which ~ots tho e;;. (J"nd work to dissolve tho union .

Tho socr~tary, who is not a barguman, but a boi1ormakor, tho only time ho over workod on a barge was last August , scabbing , whilo tho bargemen wore still out a.n strike . He is one of tho mouth­pieces of tho Lowis• Johnson ma -chine and told the mon to accept tho agroomont . He paid rospocts to Lewis and Johnson for tho f1 no work tbat tboy woro doing .

This phonoy is mcoti~~ with plonty of opposition from tho rank and filo . Ho should resign bocauso tho rank and file hate his guts and we arc not going to put up with him any longer.

Jolmson and t~a scab soc r otary aro still drawing their wages , whilo wo pc..und tho bricks and ua t coffoo and. They t0ll us to go up to tho longshoremen ' s hall and pic~rup a day ' s work . Wu aro still on strikv and bow can Rtrikors tako anothor man ' s job?

LrJWio is doing nothing to got thJ 110n back to work on tho sugar boats who walked off during tho gonor&l strike and woro replaced by "Raw DJnJ. ' s '' Forryboatmon . And now Jornson wants us to play fair with tho forryboatmvn . ~fuo ar0 on­ly 11 ;1e.w 11 rual 1 s scabs , h0lpod al ­ong , of course, by Lewis , tho big f ak.)r .

An I . L. A. Bargeman

P. s . What wo nood is rank nnd file of.fJ.c:l.als like tho longshorumvn havo . * * .. ;} * ·::- .. ;z.. ~!- ~,:. ·;} ?~· .;~ ~'" ~~ ·:} ~- ... ;c. * ~<.

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TRANSPOR'r rocK hliF'U3i!!S TO ABIDJ!~ BY IJONG3>10RE BOARD( S DEC IS ION OLD SCALE STILL IN EF~'RCT O'N GOV ' T DOCl\.

The Comptroller General of the United States ruled that tbe Ar·my D>cks would not have to abtue by the Longshor~ Board ' s Dacision and therefore would{ continue to pay the old scale E~ 85 cents an hour and an 8 hour qay.

This decision handed down by the Comptroller again proves the hypocris~r of the 11 New .!))alii.

The New Deal is supposed to guarantee the right of the workers to jo~n u union of his own choos­ing . Wo saw the brutal terror un­leashed aBainst us when we struck for the recognition of our union, the I.L . A. , an A. F. of L. affilia­te . The terror and bl'utal fdr c-e ·' used to dri"'!e the longshoremen and maritime strHcers !sack to work had the sanction and was sometimes spurred into action by high govern ment officials .

General Jolmson, the right hand ma.n of Pres . Roosevelt, in his fam ous Phi Beta Kappa speach at Berk­eley University gave the sienal for letting loose the te~ror cam­paign which acting Gov . ~nor1·ia1n

and Mayor Rossi hn.d already organ­ized . There were some 5,000 Na­tional Guardsmen on the waterfront with tanks and artlllery. General Johnson 1 s speech gave governr.1ent sanction to what w~ll, in all prob ability, prove to be , not the birth of actunl fascist terror in Amer­ica , but something more than that , the first widespread raging on the loose ol' this bestial child ,,.of capitaliem in decay .

The longshoremon agreed not to strike the Gover:uaent ships and to provo their sincerity ·,-worked all government transports during the str.dr.e, and now after we re­turned to work and a Board appoint ed by Pres . Roosevelt makes a rul­ing and decision to increase the pay and shorten the hours , another branch of the government service

refuses to abidE:: by that decislon, althoue;h the private shipowners are expected to . You can see how far the government would go to forco the shipowners to ab1de by tho aNard . It is only ~1e to the fact that we are so well organ ized and fro1n the solidarity al­ready expressed b~tween all marine groups that the sllipowners are abiding by th~ award . The govern­ment has millions to spend to force the workers bnck to t~e job, but not one cout to sponcJ to see that the award made by a goverrunent com mittoe is put into effect .

Another case in point is that of tho scalers, who joined a union of their own chooslng , under sec­tion ?a , and avery since the mari­ti.~e strike have been locked out . The sovermnent, like the labor fak~r, refl'ses to take any action , giving as an excuse that before arb~tration can proceed ~here must be somebody to arbitrate with, the shinowners refuse and the labor depnl'tment will n.ot taka any ac ­tio~ to force them.

'l'he most flagrant violation of sect ton ?a by the Rl.!.ipo,.mers, the police and government agencies is the wrecking of the Marli~e Workers In~1strlal Union, the arrest and beat~ng of hundreds of members and the deportation proceedings start ­ed against t~ose workers who hap­pened to be foreign born . From these actions we find that the New Deal does not carry into effect those things it promises to the workers .

Now the stra-w that broke the camel's back is that the govern­ment does not have to abide by its own decisions .

Its getting about time for Roosevelt to make another of his fire - side sneeches, the workers are becoming hungrier and :·~:rest­less .

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