The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-07
WORKERS REJECT
COMP ANY union
PLEA OF insult
Electrical Workers Fight
Big Boss
Beware Of insult.

dent Of the Northern Indiana Gas
and Electric Company and is con-
cluded with the name Of Samuel
insult. The notorious open-shop,
antilahor, company-union plants
which the letter cites as examples
are: international Harvester Tho
foul functioning of It's company
union has been exposed In the
DAILY WoRKER); the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company; Bethlehem
Steel; Standard Oil of Indiana;
Goodrich Tire G. Rubber Company;
Public Service Company OF North
ern Illinois; Commonwealth Edison
and Peoples Gas, Light and Coke
Company.
Samuel insult is president Of the
last three companies named and is
also president Of the Middle West
Utilities Company. He Is chairman
of the board of directors of the
Chicago and Interurban Traction
Company and of the Chicago, North
Shore and Milwaukee Railroad;
chairman of the executive commit
tee Of the Chicago Elevated Rail-
ways; and Is director in Chicago
City and Connecting Railways Col
lateral Trust.
Holding Up Chicago.
As head of the al" lines In Chi
cago, insult has been holding out
his lines from city purchase for an
altogether unreaso nabIe sum.
Mayor Dever has Just passed the
buck to the city council to let them
take the responsibility for paying
insults fancy price or--but they
won't dare-using their power Of
confIscation of property for city use.
Samuel insult is sitting pretty"
and is making a determined effort
to enforce the open-shbp throughout
all the public utilities which he con-
trolls. We are glad to see the work
ers fight this move of his in Ham
mond, Whiting and Michigan City,
but they'll have to keep up the fight
and organize so that foxy insult
won't be able to slip his boss-con-
troled company-union plan over on
them when they aren't prepared.
HAMMOND, Ind, Aug. g. To tn,
Daily Worker: The enclosed is
copy of letter which was sent on
by the Northern Indiana Gas anC
Electric Co., to the employees of tn,
company. This company supplies ga
and electricity for Hammond, Eas
Chicago, Whiting, Indiana Harbor
Gary, South Bend and many othel
Northern Indiana towns.
The electrical workers are organ
lied in the Chicago local. If am cor
rectly informed there has been nj
written agreement between the com
pany and the union, but grievances
and the matter of wages, hours ant
working conditions have been settled
thru the representative of the Chicago
local.
Workers Reject Company Union.
Now, that industrial depression il
with US again it seems that the N. l. G
and q. Co., are trying to take advan
tage Of the situation and break com
pletely with the union by Offering
form the employees representation OF
company union, and all the good ole
bunk of cooperation between the mas
ter and the slave. 1t will be noted
that the circular letter calls attention
to several well-known open shop labor
hating corporations to show how nice
ly this proposed plan is working il
those plants.
However, the workers in Hammond
held a meeting and voted to have
nothing to do with this proposition.
s%s
Remember Betrayal
Also a vote was taken recently OF
the Indiana Harbor Belt r. r. to de
termine whether or not the employees
wanted company union.
The employees working in the shopl
at Gibson voted for company union a
against regular trade unions, Will
the freight handlers and clerks at tn,
L. G. l.. transfer voted to continue
with the Brotherhood of Railroa,
Clerks.
This is quite natural as ii will b
remembered that the Gibson shop
were affected by the calling off of tn
strike on the l. II. b. by the Railwa,
Employees Dept. Of A. F. Of L, las
winter without having received an
concessions from the company, an
leaving the shops operating wit
strike-breakers. They would vot
against the regular trade unions as
matter OF course. While the freigh
handlers and clerks are organized Il
their regular union and the ballot
show that they are not in favor OF ri,
n. w. GARNER.
ing 1t up for any company union.
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