Take It Easy, But Take It

"The case was concluded on June 13th. After deliberating two hours the jury returned a verdict of guilty against all defendants on all 3 counts. The nine men were sentenced on June 16th. They are: Frank Spector, Los Angeles organizer for the International Labor Defense; record does not show that he was ever in Imperial Valley. Carl Sklar, Los Angeles organizer for the Communist Party; in Valley only a few times. Oscar Erickson, national secretary of the Agricultural Workers Industrial League; spent about two months in the Valley. Tsuji Horiuchi, Japanese citizen, secretary of the Imperial Valley Trade Union Unity League; Lawrence Emery of the Marine Workers Industrial Union; spent about two months in Valley. Danny Roxas, a Filipino, secretary of the local Agricultural Workers Industrial League; Eduardo Herrera, cement worker, Braulio Oroszco, carpenter, and Emilio Alonzo, agricultural workers; Mexican citizens. The first six men above wer...

"WAYS TO FIGHT BACK One way is not to use the law, and many CIO unions have already decided to take this course. The Steelworkers, the United Electrical Workers, the Auto Workers, the Longshoremen and Warehousemen and many other international unions of the CIO have stated they will have no part of the new National Labor Relations Board. You will see when you read this booklet they have good reason. The Board is no longer the guardian of workers rights, but a tool in the hands of the employers. Labor's Bill of Rights, the Wagner Act, has been replaced. A new 'Bill of Rights for Employers' has been put in its place. Another way is to ignore the law, and this the CIO intends to do in certain instances. There are higher and better laws than the one dreamed up by Mr. Taft and Mr. Hartley and one of them is the Constitution of the United States. Where laws conflict - and some of the provisions of the Taft-Hartley law certainly conflict with the C...

"Striking Longshoremen Protest Student Hire. Striking Pacific Coast Longshoremen asking for higher wage and shorter working hours parade along San Francisco's famed Embarcadero in protest of ship companies hiring student help to break the strike. A sustained report that several members of the University of California's football squad were unloading ships brought out the above demonstration. Credit Line: ACME  5/13/34"