The Organizer (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 1934-08-22

              UNITED
LABOR
ACTION
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SMASH THE
CITIZENS
ALLIANCE
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TWO TWENTY-FIVE
SOUTH THIRD STREET
VOLUME 1
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 22,1934
NUMBER 37
Settlement Goes Through!
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The strike settlement
adopted by the Union last
night at a membership meeting is a victory for Local 574
and for the cause of trade
unionism which was at stake
in this strike.
The bosses, led by the
Citizens Alliance, forced
this strike on us. The Alliance bandits admit that they
want to make this an open
shop town. The beginning,
they thought, would be ta
smash Local 574. Then they
would go on to the rest of
the Unions.
They have been defeated in their foul plot!
Battle - scarred and
bleeding from many wounds,
Local 574 rises from the
struggle stronger in the confidence of the workers and
more certain of its future
than before.
Local 574 has not yet gotten everything
for its members that it means to get. The bosses
know this and we shall not let them forget it.
But what Local 574 has won is the gain of
the whole union movement. All Minneapolis
workers rejoice to know that the attempt to
break 574 has completely fizzled and that our
great union remains in the field to fight the
battles of its own members and to point the
road of struggle to all workers seeking the benefit of organization and a better life for themselves and their families.
*    *    *
The walls of Eagles hall shook last night
as the members wound up their meeting with
the fighting song of 574, "Solidarity Forever!"
When 574 says "Solidarity," it means union, it means stick together, fight it out, don't
give in. And this in turn means 574.
This number is the veritable symbol of unionism and the unconquerable spirit of labor in
Minneapolis today.
And not only in Minneapolis.
Local 574's heroic struggle has become a
national  affair.   Minneapolis  has shown the
country something new, and newspaper front
pages everywhere carry our name.
ct        What was new ?  Not the fact that a few
^ thousand workers, miserably oppressed and ex-
. ploited, rose to rebel. That happens daily. Everywhere American workers, sick of working
like slaves and living like bums, are striking,
co The pity is that, as a rule, they are cheated,
£j betrayed or sold out by those they trust and
could split us.,wWe stuck it
out arid got -a- settlement
which the whtjle labor move-^
ment will approve.
the;
strike  ends.
lie"- does not
rely on. The bosses crush them, or the leaders
betray them, or they get caught in the "National Run Around" of Federal meditation, and before the inexperienced workers know what has
happened their strikes are broken and they go
back defeated, without conditions, without a
union, without anything, as a rule, but an NRA
promise worth just about as much as Confederate money.
They tried all that in Minneapolis, but it
was no go. That's what was new about our
strike. That made the whole country sit up and
take notice.
Every means of oppression was brought to
bear. They shot our pickets down in cold blood.
Two of them lie dead today, victims of the murdering, union-hating conspirators, martyrs.to
the sacred cause of labor. They flung our jp£pk-i'
ets and our leadsr into a military stockade. They
raided our headquarters. \ \ ■ v*:"•*'.*.'! i
But they couldn't break us.   •':: *.'.• i '-..' :'*. i
Every dirty trick and maneuver was tried.
A Farmer-Labor governor, whom so many workers trusted, turned up as a copper, throwing
pickets into the stockade. They put over a "Red
Scare" to see if they could catch some suckers
and get the union to select a leadership to suit
the bosses. Even the Federal Mediators, Father
Haas and Mr. Dunnigan, to their shame, tried
to go over the heads of our leaders and disrupt
our ranks. Such "labor leaders" as Tobin and
Smith played the role of Judas*,
But they couldn't fool us. j'
Local 574 stood up and foiight.ba.ck.. Rank.,
and file and leaders stodd-.u|u'te.<I-,:a;nd' j&ljody-.'
Thus
But the
end.
Elections- are coming.
Local 574 Wants ■ to win in
every housed Every worker
should join the Union. Every union man should speak
to his brothers on the job
and see to it that 574 gets a
unanimous vote. After that
we shall remain vigilant and
see that all. conditions of the
settlement are enforced in
practice. Local 574 is not
going to sleep at the switch.
Let's get out the vote
and let's see' to it that every
ballot cast is marked for
574, a real union.
And a final word: MayQ^lBainbridge has
started to yap about driving ■"IGommunists" out
of the city. We know what he riaeans. He means
framing up every worker who fights for his
rights. The Citizens Alliance, .sore' because they
had to swallow the settlement, are planning to
sic their bloodhound Johannes onto some innocent individual workers and. take it out of their
hides. =:/.-.
We wjarn all enemies df labor: Local 574
is going to take a hand in th.el.fight against any
kind of a frame-up. Those who start this sort
of business will be responsible for all the consequences.     ' •'•'•' '
. . ..This.outlines the immediate.program of Lo-
£«U57jk: .: : :\\
' ' ' We" 'are'going to. see to it that the settle-
'me'nt-is c^rtifed Out' '•"'•/        -,.
. - .* •'. We are going -to -see to it that any attempts
at discrimination get a crack on the head.
We are going to win the election and build
a bigger union than we ever had before.
And we are going to protect every last man
of our heroic strikers against any sort of persecution.
The Organizer ceases.today to be a Daily
Strike Bulletin. It remains the official daily of
Local 574. Until the elections have been concluded, we intend to keep in our hands the precious., weapon, a daily paper,' :
• ,•'■'Numberless remarks, scores of letters give
us .confidence.that this will be welcome news to
th& w.Qrke'rs''p'f Minneapolis.
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Vote for 574 in the Elections
Make Minneapolis a Union Town