The Organizer (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 1934-08-11

              UNITED
i    LABOR
ACTION
SMASH THE
CITIZENS
ALLIANCE V
SOUTH THIRD STREET
VOLUME 1, NO. 28
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, AUGUST-11, 1934
PRICE ONE CENT
Injunction
Is Refused
574  Does  Not  Find
Troops a Blessing
The action of the Federal Court
judges this morning in refusing
the bosses* demand for an injunction temporarily enables Governor
Olson to keep his troops- in Minneapolis. Whether the bosses •will
appeal to the United States Supreme Court is still not decided,
but in any case the troops will
stay on for some time.
The Federal Court decision,
however, in no way undoes the
injury that the troops have done
to. the strikers in the past, nor
does, it restrain, them from ham-
peringTis today. On the very day
the decision of the-Federal judges
is handed down, three pickets are
convicted by the military court
and sentenced for the crime of
riding in an automobile.
This and many other facts
make it clear that the presence of
the troops is far from being a
benefit to the strike. About 120
of our best brothers are still rotting In- the stockade and the" picket line as a whole is subjected to
a thousand restraints.
The notion is spread about by
some who do not examine the sit-,
nation closely,, that. the.'soldiers
are doing, our picketing for us
and that this is a .benefit It might
be if it were. true, but the soldiers do not picket the way 574
does. Otherwise there would not
be so much chiseling as they call
it or scabbing as we call it.
.This chiseling is definitely on
the increase as reports -from our
Thugs Attack Strikers
Transporting Organizers
At about 10:15 p. m. last
night. Brother Randall, who
was detailed to bring the last
load of yesterday's Organizers
from the printer to headquarters, was attacked in the alley
next to the plant which prints
The Organizer by two men. According to Brother Randall,
they were hard-looking yeggs
whom he had never-seen in
town b«f ore. Indications are
that the bosses «j*;§gaiii in-
tensifying . tbeilf- campaign "to." '
smash The.Organirer, and that^
they are- now using, the Bergoff
thugs imported front New York
to this end.
Brother - Randall fought the
two thugs off for a few minutes . and- they then ran away,
probably - fearing . that the
printers - would come out and
clean up. cm them. Randall then
jumped in his car and brought
the Organizers to Eighth street.
strikers indicate. - For example,
Morris, Belzer and the U. S. Fruit
Co. in the market -are moving
produce by using trucks which
have permits at the same time
that they themselves refuse to get
permits by signing the Haas-Dunnigan plan.   . .
Gross ■ Bros. Dry Cleaning is
hauling without any permit, at all.
Young America Milk Co. was
caught by strikers this morning
hauling. a load of candy for! the
Fanny. Farmer Candy Co.- under
a milk permit.
Witt's market, 705 Hennepin,
is bootlegging. meat under a hospital supply permit
All these movements are blows
at the strike, and all of them are
going on und* the military permit system.
To Speak at
Farm Picnic
President Brown Will
Fly to Pine City
President Bill Brown of Local
574 -will address a picnic at Pine
^.Cjfy^tomorrow at 1 p. m. The
:picnie"is under the auspices of the
;Kne.^C6unty Farmers Holiday Association. This organization has
contributed generous quantities
of fresh foodstuffs to the Strike
Commissary and Local 574 is profoundly grateful for the co-operation.
Bill Brown will fly to the Pine
City affair in an open biplane donated for the occasion by the
Eagle Flying Service. The plane
will leave from the Wold-Chamberlain Airport at about 10 a. m.
tomorrow. An American Eagle
plane, it will be lettered with the
legend "Five Seven Four."
A truckload of 574 members
will attend the picnic, bringing
with tnem the loud-speaking apparatus now in use at Strike
Headquarters. All" 574 men are
welcome. Two .thousand - extra
copies of The Organizer have been-
jrinted Jfor distribution., at this
picnic. "**■.'   -^
'.-. In addition to the Pine County
organization, tbe Farmers Holiday Association of Isanti County
has generously aided the Commissary of Local 574, and a few days
ago a load of vegetables .came
in from the Farmers Holiday Association of Polk County, Wisconsin.
Banks Shut Off Credit
On Haas Plan Signers
At a meeting of the 13th
Ward Farmer-Labor Club last
night speakers substantiated
the claims of 574 that it is the
chain banks that are forcing
the employers to refuse the
moderate.demands of the strikers.
It was brought out that on
Thursday a grocer who had
signed the Haas-Dunnigan plan
went down to the wholesalers
to get his stock for the weekend shopping. The wholesaler
coldly refused to grant him'
credit.    The  bank had  spoken.
A contractor constructing a
row of houses has signed the
Haas - Dunnigan agreement.
When he "needed credit to "get
cement he found" that his bank
had "reached" every cement
company in town. No cement
is forthcoming for this employer who dared to .grant the
demands of  the workers.
Yellow Man Stabs Youth
As a result of a discussion of
the strike, Buck Dalrymple,. a
young'member of the MCCW, was
stabbed with-an ice-pick at about
9 p. m. last night near Border
Ave: He was arguing with a Yellow Cab man whom he reproached for-not helping" actively'in the
strike. ■< The -cab ■ man, who was
yellow in more ways than one,
.went.away, arid returned.a .short
while later. Buck -fourid' him
punching the tires of his father's
car with the ice-pick. -When Buck
intervened, - the rat stabbed him.
Buck reported to" Strike Emergency- Hospital where his wound
was-dressed.
Bloody MikeVcops, so, good at
murdering pickets, are not interested in this crime. ". .
3 Convicted
For Striking
Pickets Get 15 Days iit
Military Court      £
For the crime of being strikers,  .
three workers were sentenced this"'
morniing to 15 days each in the-"
stockade.     . ,
The three,  Charles  E.  Morris, -.
A. Pease and Lester Rafter, were '
charged with driving in an auto--
mobile near a truck.   The truck' '
driver, a' scab, admitted- that they
had  not  approached  him   or  event''
addressed   him.    Captain   Derrick,
the  military judge,  stated,  however,   that   the   strikers    "would
have  done  so" had the military
not been present to interfere.
Six other strikers—F. J. Goss- i
lin, H. L. Bolduc, Haley Hossech,-".
Ed Berglund, Lawrence A. Swan-
son and Frank E. Stevens—were ■
released after brief trials.   They- ■
were  accused   of   something   or-."
other. What had they done?  They' "
had stopped next to a truck which  -
had halted for a red light   The
truck driver testified that they had- "
asked him what his load was. Th« -
prosecution  . admitted . it   had   no>
other -evidence,- although   the   sis
strikers hacVheen held in the con-
ceriCratToh   camp   ever   since   July*
31   for their, -terrible crime.
.The militia will try more strikers -Monday. "
Clearly, the purpose of this mili- .
tary regime-is- to pull in 'peaceful   I*
pickets, hold them indefinitely in   -
a concentration camp without any •-.-
evidence against them, and there- .
by weaken the strike.
"The Organizer"—Shield and Weapon
By FARRELL DOBBS
The men who own the great daily newspapers
are bosses like any other bosses. They sweat
their printers and their newsboys and they prostitute to their own commercial ends the talents
of writers and artists. Like all other employers,
they have their organization and their official
publication, one of which is Editor and Publisher. This paper is controlled by the big newspaper publishers of the country and it is written
by men who are in their confidence.
One of them, a certain Mr. Earl Burke, writes
in a recent issue of Editor and Publisher that
just before the general strike began in San.
Francisco the owners of the five boss-owned
daily papers in Frisco met and formed a Newspaper Publishers' Council They looked over
the strike situation and decided to get back of
Mayor A. J. Rossi, the Bloody Mike of San Francisco, in order to break the strike. These publishers, the Mayor and the Governor got together, and as a result a campaign against the
strikers began in the five daily newspapers.
. The Examiner and the Chronicle published
front-page editorials stating that-radicals had
s-eized control of the unions by intimidating the
workers and that the general strike was a revolution.
• To us workers of Minneapolis who have been
through the drivers strike, all this sounds like
home, but even more familiar are the next steps
of the publishers.
As in Minneapolis, where the Citizens Alliance wants the Rev. Haas recalled, the local
bosses wanted the Federal government to throw
aside all restraint in crushing the workers of
Frisco. As in Minneapolis the bosses' papers set
up a howl that a compromise, with the Union
would mean a Communist revolution.
So vicious were the attacks-of the boss press
on the workers, and their chosen leaders, that
many were deceived and allowed the bosses to
split their ranks. Conservative leaders fought
against radical leaders who were isolated. The
general gtrike was smashed.
Thie end result was the loss of the workers'
justified demands, the crushing of the longshoremen's strike, and the setting-back of the
whole organized trade union movement of
Frisco.
This is the aim of the bosses of Minneapolis.
In working toward it they have had the sincere and constant help of the kept press of this
city. By every trick of subtle hint and outright
slander, by the lies in their news columns and
the provocations in their editorials, by what
they publish and what they refrain from publishing, the boss press is striving to confuse the
strikers, to alienate public sympathy.
If they could do this, they would break the
strike, reject all the workers' demands, smash
Local 574 and most likely go on to an orgy of
bloodthirsty attacks on strikers' and workers'
organizations as in Frisco.
By the use of their press (and latterly also by
their radio) they are working toward this end.
That they have not succeeded in their pernicious aim, and that they will never succeed,
is partly due to the existence of The Organizer. When the five boss-owned dailies befouled
sunrise and sunset with their filthy attacks,
provocations and slanflers the workers of Frisco
had not the means to reply properly. They could
not, as we do with our little daily strike bulletin, nail the bosses' lies, answer their filthy
slanders and mobilize the workers- at every
critical juncture. .
On this occasion when The Organizer appears in larger form than ever before, the Edi
tor wishes to thank all who have helped push
The Organizer into every nook and cranny of i
working-class Minneapolis until it is as famous
among the workers as the boss press is infamous. ' '-'
The Organizer has survived one attack after
another. It has been chased from printer to
printer; it has brooked and overcome the oppressive influence of police and militiamen; it
has surmounted financial and technical difficulties. When mass meetings have been impossible, The Organizer has been at hand to spread
truthful news and cement the ranks. Occasionally it has appeared a few hours late, for one
reason or another, but never has it missed a
day. And the anxious irritation which sweeps
the Headquarters when it is a few hours late, is
clear evidence that the mass of strikers appreciates its importance to them in their fight for
a decent life.
The life of The Organizer as a daily is necessarily short; when the strike has ended, it will
return to its earlier form as a modest weekly
organ of Local 574.
But on that glorious occasion when the last
daily issue of The Organizer appears to announce in bold headlines the victory of the strikers and the unseating of the tyrants' clique
which aims to rule our lives, a lesson of great
importance to all strikers will have been taught.
In the future, a daily newspaper of, by and
for the strikers will be an indispensable part of
the arsenal of every fighting strike committee.
For having taught this lesson to the workers
of the country, the strikers of Local 574 and
.their brothers who helped make the existence'
of The Organizer possible, will win an immortal
place in the galaxy of leaders of working class
struggle. j.