New-York tribune., 1921-12-06
Lay $25O,O00
early Graft
To I.aEDs,n. Man,
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mercial vultures arc permitted to prey
on tho community. Tho big fellows
seem to be immune. The higher up
wc so in the scale of the relative
power and Importance of the offenders
and the moro dangerous they arc to
tho community the moro difilcult it.
becomes to get the government to bring
them to trial.
Colonel Hayward Absolved
Mr. untermyer, however, absolved
Colonel William Hayward, the United
States District Attorney here, of all
blame in the matter, saying that Colo
mel Hayward was efficient and en-
thusiastic and doing the best that
could be done with the limited staff at
his disposal.
New York City is still short about
10000 apartments, said Mr.. Untermyer.
Some relief, he added, had been pro-
vided by the committee through legis-
lation which it had recommended, but
he declared that further legislation
was needed. He advocated the extern
sion of the emergency rent laws and
the tax exemption laws for another
suits of tho committees inquiry lie
said:
Six hundred and twenty-five jndi-
vidusls and corporations had been
convicted, had pleaded guilty and had
been fined.
III fines $452,55 had been collected,
which Is three times more money than
the committee had cost tina taxpayers.
Twenty five men had been sent to
prison.
Fifty-one men are under suspended
sentences.
Two thousand indictments are still
pending Only one Indictment of all
those so far found had been followed
by acquittal--and this by agreement.
Hogan was the first witness called to
the stand. He said he lived at Mount Ver-
non. His salary as financial secretary
OF the Electrical Workers Union was
at first $50 a week, and two wears ago
was raised to $75. He said he was also
treasurer of the international Broth
erhood of Electrical Workers, with
headquarters in Washington, D. c., and
that. he was paid $1,000 year for his
other source of income,
Mr.. Untermyer. with the assistance
or Henry Mayer, ono of his aiding
counsel, then plunged into the whole
subject of Hogan's finances. He showed
that Hogan had purchased home re-
Gently in Mount Vernon for almost
S11 900, and that he had deposited
under his own name in four different
banks approximately $11 900 year for
the last four years.
Records Fail to Back Claims
Hogan attempted to explain that
these bank deposits represented Irish
relief funds and money belonging to the
international union. The Irish relief
funds, it was shown, amounted to only
$500. He couldn't produce any rec
ords to show how much, it any, of the
money belonged to the international.
Thomas d. Naughton, an electrical
worker, who organized an independent
organization of electrical craftsmen
after having fallen out with Hogan,
said on the stand that there were about
10000 non-union journeymen and 1900
helpers at work on union Jobs with
permits which they had to obtain from
Hogan's Office. Journeymen paid $3.50
a week for these permits and helpers
81. Naughton said that at least $4,000
a week rolled into the Hogan organiza-
tion from these permit cards and that
somebody was getting S250,O00 a year.
Naughton testified that Hogan delib-
erately kept down the membership for
the purpose of forcing the large num-
ber OF men thus excluded from the
union to purchase permit cards. He
said the number of men placed in this
predicament can be judged from the
fact that of the 10000 electrical work.
ers in the city only about 1000 were
able to get into the union. Applicants
Tor membership are told, he said, that
the books arc closed"
Hogan's testimony, as brought out
under the questioning of Mr. Inter
myer with reference to the manipula-
tion of the death benefit funds of the
union, shows that $1,000 was paid to
| the family of a member in good stand
ing for two years and S1,400 to mem
Der of five years standing. The money
was raised by assessing each one OF
the four thousand members 80 cents.
Death Benefits Are Ignored
"Four thousand members at so cents
that would be $4,000, wouldn't it.?"