The Organizer (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 1934-08-09

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MASS MEETING TONIGHT
AT STRIKE HEADQUARTERS, 215 S. 8TH ST.
8:30
P.M.
UNITED
LABOR
ACTION
DAILY STRIKE BULLETIN
SMASH THE
CITIZENS
ALLIANCE
TWO TWENTY-FIVE
SOUTH THIRD STREET
Volume 1, No. 24
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1934
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Bosses Again Are Chiseling
Bosses Find
Rev* Haas Red
Want  New  Mediator;
Union Won't Budge
Stretching the red scare out so
wide and thin that it is coming
through in spots, the bosses have now
demanded that the Rev. P. J. Haas
and Commissioner E. H. Dunnigan,
Federal mediators who devised the
Haas-Dunnigan compromise plan accepted by the strikers and rejected
by the bosses, be recalled to Washington.
The bosses charge that the Federal
mediators are "playing into the hands
of the radical leadership of the truck
drivers' union." An effort is being
made now to convince the general
public that the Rev. Haas and Dunnigan are agents of Communist conspirators trying to precipitate an
armed insurrection in Minneapolis.
Telegrams have been sent by the
bosses to President Roosevelt, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and
the National Labor Relations Board
demanding that new mediators be
substituted.
Asked to comment on this development, Union leaders laughed. President Bill Brown said that he is
"practically convinced that the rumor
that Father Haas is a paid Communist agent is grossly exaggerated."
Vincent R. Dunne, member of the
Organizing Committee of Local 574,
agreed with this estimate and added
the following remarks:
'The bosses can ask for new mediators any time they want. We did not
bring Mr. Dunnigan or the Rev. Haas
here. The bosses have shown a good
deal of agility in jumping from one
trapeze to another throughout the
strike. If they want to do some more
jumping that is their business. But the
Union and the Strike Committee and
the strikers serve notice now that no
matter how many mediators take
the long and weary trip from Washington, D. C, to Minneapolis, we
stand on the Haas-Dunnigan plan and
we will not budge one inch from it.
We hope that that is clear enough."
Laundry Drivers Are
Covered by H-D Plan
A last-minute attempt by the laundry and dry cleaning employers to
define "salesmen" so as to exclude
laundry and cleaning truck drivers
from the provisions of the Haas-
Dunnigan plan, was foiled last night.
A committee from the Laundry and
Dry Cleaning Workers Union called
on Governor Olson and insisted on all
such drivers being classed as drivers
rather than as salesmen.
A   full   list   of  laundry  and   dry
cleaning establishments and cleaning
houses which have accepted the Haas-
Dunnigan   plan   and   therefore   get
permits to move trucks, follows:
Mill   City  Launderers  and   Cleaners
Crystal  Co-operative Cleaners
Sunshine Laundry
Progressive Laundry
Master  Cleaners
Whitney Cleaners
Advance Tower Laundry
Prosperity Cleaners
Outdoor Meeting Held
A meeting was held last night on
the lot back of Strike Headquarters.
This was the first open-air rally at
Headquarters since martial law went
into effect. Among the speakers were
Ray Dunne, Farrell Dobbs, Carl
Skoglund, Elmer Crowl, Herbert So-
low.
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Martial Law and Federal Injunctions
At the present time the lawyers for the employers and the legal representatives of Governor Olson are arguing the question of martial law in the Federal court. The union is
not a party to this legal dispute, and we don't
profess to know what the decision of the court
will be. Our policy is completely independent
of the decisions and whims of judges and governors. Let them talk—but keep the picket
line in shape—that's the philosophy of Local
574.
However, the injunction suit has a number
of interesting angles which are worth comment. The biggest laugh in the whole business
was the petition of the bosses for relief from
martial law because some of their trucks were
tied up. "It's violating constitutional rights,"
they bawled, and they announced they were
going to make a legal fight. Not on account
of the money involved, mind you—the bosses
never bother about such sordid details—but
just for the principle of the thing. These birds
never had a thought about anything but principles and constitutional rights when they filed
the injunction suit!
A few days before the militia really overrode the constitutional rights of the strikers—
the union headquarters was taken over, leaders and members of the union were thrown
into the stockade, private homes were invaded,
and a general reign of military terror was instituted. Did these employers make any protest ? Did they complain about the violation of
constitutional rights when men and women of
the working class were concerned? Not on
your tintype. Everything was hunky-dory with
the bosses when martial law showed its ugliest
face in Minneapolis. If they didn't directly
order the raids—that's possible, we know very
well that most of the officers of the National
Guard are tied up with the Citizens Alliance
in a hundred ways, they knew all about them,
approved the violent suppression of workers'
rights, and slept soundly that night. Only
when a twist of Olson's policy put the military
squeeze on truck movements-only then did the
hypocritical employers discover a great indignation about constitutional rights and human
freedom in general.
We do not know what the decision of the
Federal judges will be. Our demand, now as
before, is that our members be released from
the military stockade and that our pickets be
free from military interference. We never
asked for martial law and we don't want it
now.
Local 574 is perfectly capable of stopping
scab truck movements without military aid.
Before martial law was declared the town was
tied up by the pickets of Local 574. If martial law is eliminated today by Federal injunction the town will be tied up again tomorrow
—by the pickets of Local 574.
The legal squabble between the Governor
and the employers is a private affair of their
own. Nothing that happens or fails to happen
there can seriously affect our course. The
fundamental line of Local 574 is—the militant
and independent struggle of the workers.
In peace or war, martial law or no martial
law, we hold to that policy. We tell the workers always: rely on your own strength; there
all the power lies. With this policy we are
invincible.
Advertise in the Organizer
Today the new policy of publishing advertising in The Organizer goes into effect. The
proceeds will be used to publish our daily
strike bulletin and for the benefit of the strike
relief fund. Workers will note with satisfaction that some business men are already advertising in our paper. Members of 574 and
their great mass of sympathizers, at least 150,-
000 of whom read this bulletin six times a
week, will go out of their way to spend money
with the firms that recognize The Organizer.
For the first time in the history of the American labor movement, a local union is publishing its own daily paper. The old game of demoralizing a strike by the propaganda of the
kept press does not work against 574. Every
day the truth is brought out by the Strike Committee in its own organ, and laid before the
working people. Our daily bulletin is our
strongest weapon. It is the apple of the workers' eye. And this goes for more than just the
strikers. In every part of town where workers
gather, among railroad men and printers, and-
carpenters, and mill hands, indeed, among
workers of every craft, is to be heard daily
praise of The Organizer.
The workers of Minneapolis will always
have a soft spot in their heart for those who
helped to keep The Organizer going, just as
they will remember the enemies who have
tried in many and devious ways to suppress it.
Our first word of hearty appreciation goes
to Typographical Union 42. When these brothers heard about the various conspiratorial at
tempts to gag The Organizer, they laid $1,000
on the line and said: "The Organizer must
appear." The Typographical workers of Minneapolis spell Solidarity with a capital "S."
The Organizer has increased its circulation
from 10,000 copies to 12,000 in the last few
days. Now we aim to put it on a paying basis
and through it to help the strike relief fund.
This fight is not only for the benefit of the
members of 574. The whole labor movement
of the city has repeatedly recognized that it
is the concern of the whole labor movement.
Many small business men whose customers are
largely workers are vitally concerned in the
outcome of this strike. They can not sell to
men who get starvation wages. They are the
ones who will lead in advertising in The Organizer.
Go to the man you are in the habit of trading with. Explain to him the meaning of our
fight, the nature of our paper, and the importance to him of advertising in it. Point out
to him that every one of our 12,000 copies
is passed from hand to hand by readers to
whom this is no ordinary newspaper, but an
echo of their own innermost thoughts. Refer
him to our advertising department. Thus you
will help the fight in another way, as you already have in so many.
And when the fight is won we will have a
big celebration and a roll call. The business
men who advertise in The Organizer will get
the gravy when the boys get back to work
under union conditions and at union wages. I
Using Permits
For "Bootleg"
Strikers Resent Evasion
of H-D Agreement
Intense resentment is felt by strikers and their sympathizers as they
notice that chiseling has begun again
despite the new permit system which
is supposed to limit the movement of
trucks to those owned by employers
accepting the Haas-Dunnigan proposal.
A number of small transfer firms
were among the first to accept the
Haas-Dunnigan proposal under the
system instituted Monday. They immediately received military permits
to conduct their business. It has now
been discovered that, in addition to
doing their own regular business,
they are secretly hauling for market
firms which have refused to accept
the Haas-Dunnigan plan, as well as
for a number of firms belonging .to
the infamous 166 tyrants who forced
the strike on Local 574 and are now
making impossible its settlement.
In addition to this type of chiseling, the Colonial Warehouse and
Pratt's Express are running a large
number of trucks under special permits covering interstate commerce.
These two films are among the 166
who regard the payment of 42%
cents an hour as Communism, and
flatly refuse to sign the Haas-Dunnigan agreement which has been endorsed by the Federal and State governments. As the new permit system
was originally understood, they would
not be permitted to do much of the
hauling which they are now doing.
,«,uch,,!xu,ck movements amount to
legal chiseling with the connivance
of the military authorities who issue
permits for truck movement.
Furthermore, the strike committee
has reports of manufacturing firms
which ordinarily move their own
products in their own trucks, hiding
under the military permits granted
to small transfer companies which
signed the Haas-Dunnigan agreement. This may be legitimate from
a martial law standpoint, but as far
as Local 574 is concerned, it is just
another form of chiseling.
It is such practices as these which
are among the reasons why Local
0/4 has consistently opposed the
presence in the city of the National
Guard and the martial law regime.
The bosses are today fighting martial law because it inconveniences
them. They have to use various tricks
in order to evade a settlement and
to move scab trucks. The strikers
are opposed to martial law because
the military permit system is full of
loopholes and enables the bosses to
chisel m a dozen different ways
The reports of chiseling activities
come from various sources. Members of 574 engaged in legitimate
operations on a union basis have
given us some of the information.
Workers at tie railroad terminals
have also phoned in to strike headquarters to reveal the chiseling activities and to state that they are
ready to co-operate in putting a stop
to them. r
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Strike Over the  "Mike"
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