The Organizer (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 1934-08-07

              UNITED
LABOR
ACTION
DAILY STRIKE BULLETIN
SMASH THE
CITIZENS
ALLIANCE
TWO TWENTY-FIVE
SOUTH THIRD STREET
Volume 1, No. 22
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1934
Price one cent
Here are the 166 Tyrants!
Strike Rally
Breaks Record
40,000   Turn   Out
Support 574
to
In answer to President Brown's
appeal to all workers to turn out at
the Monday night meeting at the
Parade, 40,000 workers massed on
the knoll last evening, keeping the
Union's record intact of having each
meeting more enthusiastic and larger
than the preceding one. The strength
of 574, and the sympathy which its
struggle has aroused in the city is
shown by the fact that one out of
every 12 citizens of Minneapolis was
willing and eager to go all the way
out to the Parade Grounds to take
part in the Union's discussion of a
fair settlement, and to make plans
for the continuation of the battle.
Grant Dunne, chairman for the
evening, announced that "today
marks the 20th day of this strike."
He then gave a short history of the
strike ,. •     .„
Robert Cramer, editor of the Minneapolis Labor Review, was the second speaker. He eulogized the members of 574, and the workers who
have supported them in this fight.
Cramer presented the damning evidence that the Northwestern Bank
gratefully received 26 millions of
dollars from the very government
whose settlement they are now attempting to flout.
Both Grant Dunne and the next
speaker whom he introduced, President Brown, then called for a vigor-
out boycott of all the employers who
are refusing the Haas-Dunnigan
settlement. William Brown's speech
is recorded on the back page.
Elmer Crowl, president of the
Structural Iron Workers, who, due to
illness was making his first appearance at a Union mass meeting, announced that the executive board of
his organization had offered $2,000
rewards for information leading to
the arrest and conviction of those
responsible for the murder of Henry
Ness and John Belor, 574's two martyrs. Crowl, too, added his voice to
the request for a boycott of all the
106 employers not signing the agreement drawn up by the federal mediators. , .
Miles Dunne, the next speaker,
said that Union No. 574, and the
struggle which it has waged, is a
symbol of the new labor movement
now growing up in this country. "We
have shown to the workers of America what a real fighting workers organization must be. . . Under the
New Deal the employers have been
permitted to organize as never before. All anti-trust legislation has
been swept by the board. ._. To combat these vicious combinations of the
bosses, we workers must be able to
counter with our new industrial and
economic organizations. . . If one
A. F. of L. union has been able to
fight for twenty days, to fight the
bosses to a standstill, to maintain our
picket lines intact, what will the new
industrial organizations which must
be built be able to do for the work-
Union Reveals
Holdout List
Many Requests for Publication Received
These 40,000 Can't Be Stopped
The President in Minneapolis
The vice-president of the Central
Labor Union and business agent of
the Electricians, Al Urtabees, then
spoke, endorsing 574's fight. Brother
Urtabees made a special appeal to
all housewives to aid in bringing
pressure on the recalcitrant employers by making purchases from only
those firms willing to settle with the
Mrs. Irving Scott, wife of Alderman Scott, was vigorously applauded
as she added her call for a militant
boycott to those of the preceding
speakers. ,   .
Albert Goldman, whose speech is
recorded elsewhere in this issue,
warned the assembled workers of the
unhealthy situation now prevailing,
where national guardsmen and not
workers are doing the picketing. He
said that something is not 100%
right, when 120 of our best fighters
are behind the military stockade in
the   Fair   Grounds;
President Roosevelt visits Minneapolis tomorrow. And since he is the exponent of the
'New Deal" it is to be expected that he will
have something to say about the way it is
working out in this neck of the woods. By and
large, the New Deal has been pretty hard on
the workers. The big financial sharks, the
bankers and the bosses, drew royal flushes;
the best hand the workers drew anywhere was
a pair of deuces.
Here in Minneapolis they are trying to shuffle us out of that. And in doing so the masters
of Minneapolis, alias the Citizens Alliance,
have laid down a direct challenge to the
United States Government, to President Roosevelt and his representatives, the federal mediators.
The situation in brief is as follows:
Section 7-a of the National Industrial Recovery Act guaranteed by law the right of the
workers to organize into unions and to bargain
collectively through representatives of their
own choosing.
The truck drivers, helpers and inside men of
Minneapolis took this legal guarantee at its
word—it was nothing more than the right the
workers have fought for and conquered in over
a century of struggle—and proceeded to organize. In a short time they built up the largest and most powerful labor union in the city.
Then they approached the bosses for negotiations. The bosses refused. Thereby the bosses
forced the present strike.
Point number one: The Citizens Alliance of
Minneapolis declares Section 7-a null and void
as far as they are concerned.
Federal mediators arrived, clothed in the
authority of the United States Government.
First Mr. Dunnigan. and later Father Haas.
After numerous conferences with each side
they brought forward a compromise proposal
for a settlement. They said it was a just and
fair settlement, and they demanded, in the
name of the United States Government, that
both sides accept it and bring the strike to an
end. Governor Olson added his endorsement
to the proposal of Father Haas and Mr. Dunnigan.
The Union accepted the Haas-Dunnigan proposal as a compromise, although it fell far
short of our idea of a just and fair settlement.
The situation then stood and still stands:
The representatives of the Federal government
and of the State of Minnesota — presumably
representing the public—and Local 574 came
to an agreemnt for a settlement of the strike.
Who stood in the way?
The employers directly affected by the
strike ?—No. We know, and Father Haas and
Governor Olson know, that the great majority
of the employers directly involved in the strike
are ready and willing to settle with the union
on the basis of the Haas-Dunnigan proposal.
Then, why don't they settle ?
Because the Citizens Alliance will not let
them!
This outpost of Wall Street in Minnesota,
controlling the chain banks, threatens the individual employers with the cutting off of
credit and other reprisals if they submit to the
demands of Father Haas and Mr. Dunnigan.
Point number two: The Citizens Alliance
of Minneapolis declares the representatives of
the United States Government are a joke as
far as they are concerned.
That's the situation in a nutshell. Everybody
understands it. Father Haas has undoubtedly
reported it in detail to President Roosevelt.
Perhaps he will have something to say about
it when he arrives in Minneapolis.
We do not count on that, however. After
the experiences of San Francisco, Detroit and
Pittsburgh it would take a rather thick-witted
worker to expect the Government to help him
win a strike.
The motto of Local 574 is: Trust in God,
or trust in the Government, but—keep your
powder dry!
A TOUCH OF COMEDY
Every serious situation has its funny sides.
In times of trouble one needs a sense of humor
to survive. Shakespeare understood this better
than anyone else. Even in his most somber
tragedies he introduced a clown now and then
to relieve the emotional tension after the most
dramatic scenes.
The epic battle of Local 574 is a drama to
stir the souls of men. It conforms to the classic
pattern, even to the extent of having a clown
and a touch of comedy. The name of this
clown is, according to the leaflet surreptitiously distributed at our great mass meeting last
night, "The Communist Party of the USA, District No. 9."
These oracles who have as much to do with
the strike of Local 574 as we have with the
flight into the stratosphere, made a great discovery. The leaders of our union, they say,
are double-dyed traitors and the way to win
the strike is to get rid of them.
Some of the boys, who have been reading
the same thing in the statements of the Citizens Alliance, got sore and tore up the leaflets
and gave the distributors a crack on the jaw.
That's wrong. Such serious treatment should
be reserved for serious opponents. They are
not stool pigeons—at least, not conscious ones;
they are just a little bit nutty and what they
need is a friendly boot in the posterior. Maybe
the shock will bring them to their senses.
In response to repeated requests
from representatives of the most diverse sections of the population, not
only of the Twin Cities, but of the
entire Northwest, The Organizer today publishes the entire list of 166
films who are attempting to tryannize
over the economic life of Minneapolis, and to smash the trade movement of this city. These firms, represented by the Employers Advisory
Committee, accept the open shop labor-hating policies formulated by the
Citizens Alliance.
It is  these  firms  who  forced  the
calling of the present strike by Local
574   and  who,   having   rejected   the
Haas-Dunnigan proposal, endorsed by
the  Federal  and  State  governments
and the mass of population, are responsible for the continuance of the
strike.   The mass of the population,
which likes to know where it spends
its money, will be interested in reading the  names of the  166  tyrants,
who are as folows:
Acme Transfer and Storage Co.
American Fruit and Produce Co.
American Lumber and Wrecking Co.
Atwood Coffee Co.
Atkinson Company
Armstrong Transfer Co.
Aslesen, K.
Brugger Bros. Transfer Co.
Buckingham Transfer Co.
Bach Transfer  and  Storage  Co.
Bruer Lumber Company
Bennet-Bailey Lumber Company
Baker Importing Co.
'Bearman Fruit Co.
Belzer Fruit Co.
Boutell  Bros.,  Inc.
Boyd Transfer and  Storage Co.
Brooks Co., H.
Colonial Warehouse Co.
Cameran Transfer and Storage Co.
Commercial Transfer & Storage Co.
Chicago Avenue Transfer Co.
Crane Co. _
City Builders Service
Central Supply
Cooperman Fruit Co.
Casey-Hoban Transfer Co.
Chippewa Springs Corp.
Cardoza  Furniture Co.
Delaittre-Dixon  Co.
Dakota Packing Co.
Deere and Webber Co.
Dayton Co.
Davis and  Ruben  Co.
Davis  Manufacturing Co.
Donaldson Co., L. S.
Elbert Coffee Company
Empire Wrecking and Salvage Co.
Eide-Swanson  Co.
Engstrom Lumber Co.
Elsholtz Transfer Co.
Erickson Transfer Co., J. E.
Ferrin Transfer Co.
Friedman Fruit Co.
Ford-McNutt Glass Co.
Faldt Paper Co., Harry
Falk Paper Co., Martin
Feinberg and Co., Jacob
Fanny Farmer Candy Co.
Forman   Ford  Co.
Foote Lumber Co.
Genera] Paper Corporation
Glenwood Inglewood
Glidden Co.
Gamble Robinson Co.
Herk's Transfer
Hanson  Motor
Hedstrom Lumber Co.
Hall Hardware Co.
Hopkins and Co.
Hatch Delivery Service
Holstad Coffee
Hemple Transfer Co.
Jensen Lumber Co.
Johnson Lumber Co., Gust
Johnson Paper and Supply Co.
Janney Semple Hill    &Co.
Jordan Stevens Co.
Kedney Warehouse
Katz Packing Co.
Katzmarek Co.
Levine Bros.
Landry Transfer Co.
Lambert Transfer
LaBelle Safety & Storage Co.
(Continued on back page)