The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-07
NO WORK DONE
IN EDISON CO.
STRUCK PLANT
Few Scabs, Many Cops.
But No Production
BY A Worker correspondent

The strike of The sheet metal work
ers and electrical workers at the 10th
street and Send avenue plant Of the
Edison Electric Appliance company
continues with all work paralyzed in
spite Of few Incompetent scabs put
terine around pretending to do some
thing. The strikers demands are for
increased pay and recognition of the
uniop.
Boss Gets Into OVeralls.
How hard up the company is for
workers may be seen by the getting
into overalls of the boss, who for
fifteen years was very high class
boss. Now this boss, A. Bussman, has
had to go to work, tho what he or
the others do is not visible. But Ii
shows that the firm is short of good
mechanics.
The firm has few debilitated scabs,
among them some of the rats who
we're union men before the strike.
Such an animal is Louis Olson, who
was the first to sign up in the union,
but-after being out of town for a
couple of weeks, comes back and goes
to scabbing. Not only does he ply
the filthy trade of scab, but he hauls
other scabs home in his own car with
police escort.
Barney the Simp.
Another character is Barney Nit
chell, alias Miehalski, whom DAILY
WORKER readers heard of before as
a pHsin scab and a good customer of
the Cicero bootleggers. Barney is the
assistant foreman, tho a poor simp
Fhom even his boss sheer at as
simp When a strikers brother refused
to shake hands with him, Barney burst
INTO sort Of home-brew weeping.
Bill Krause. alias Krasauski, who
Joined the Electrical Workers Union
and even agitated to get others to
join, somehow lost all interest when
The other men struck Now he is a
me hundred per cent scab.
Plenty of Cops and Dicks.
The cost production clerk, whose
name is Hendricks, thinks it is part
Of his job to carry seabs in his car,
Tho what he has to gain by it is hard
10 say.
The collection Of official and unofh-
;ial rats still hang around. with thir-
cen deputies loafing about drawing
Jay, with nothing to do but snoop
round occasionally to seek plots"
Monday big reinforcement of police
appeared so that each scab had more
than plenty company.
But No Work is Done.
But with all this display of force,
production is paralyzed. No new work
is being put out, everything is at
standstill. The bosses are going to the
strikers homes, trying to get them to
go back one by one, even offering
higher pay. But the strikers stick
solidly together, now after a fairly
long time on strike, just the same as
on the first day, all determined to go
back together or not at all, all for
one and one for all.
A comical aspect of the strike is
given by one fellow, who was fired |
from the plant for being drunk. He
got six months in the workhouse for
drunkness on top of that. But when
he got out, the company hires him |
as an expert mechanic" He is very |
expert with a corksorew, which about
fits his character, as a more scabby |
scab could scarcely be imagined, who
scabs for the firm who fired him. But
all work is tied up, and as long as
hat condition goes on, the Sheet
Metal Morkers' Local lis and Electric
II Workers Local 713, who are con
iucting the strike, have no worry
about the outcome.