The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-26
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GARMENT LABOR;
B. AS STAND BY
A. c. w. Officers Do
Not Protect Members
By a Worker Correspondent.

There seems to be very little hard
ship in the collaboration tactics of
Business Agent Spivak of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers Union and
the foreman of coat shop No. of the
Alfred Decker & Cohn Tailoring Co.
The business agent and the foreman,
work very tremendously to keep the
workers well in hand. The foreman
reigns supreme in that shop. He hest
tates very little in giving a suspension
to a worker.
He is quite sure that Business
Agent Spivak will support him in his
stand against the workers, in ninety,
out of a hundred cases.
Fired For Lesson.
The other day a worker was sus-
pended for no other reason, as the
foreman expressed himself, than to
give him a proper lesson. The bust
ness agent, Spivak was called to settle
the case. After hearing the argu-
ments of both the worker and the fore
man, he dramatically exclaimed, II
myself would have given him a sus-
pension for that"
Ia another instance the job Of a
tailor in the shop was threatened. The
tailor was supposed to have insulted
an examiner when the latter got on
the tailor's nerves. When the case
Of the tailor was finally taken up, the
Business Agent Spivak was not at
hand to defend him, nor did the man.
ager Of the joint board, Levin, send an
other business agent to handle the
case,
HIIIman's Harmony.
President Hillman's golden rule Of
peace and harmony is also very ar
IDENTIFY being practiced by the foreman
and shop chairman in the overcoat
Shop No. of the aforementioned firm.
The shop chairman, very devoted
and willing disciple of the business
agent at large Rissman and his tactics,
doubts very little in the infallibility
of the judgement Of his foreman.
When complaints are brought to him
against the foreman he discreetly
manages to make nothing out of them.
Even If he does agree to hear the
arguments of the worker and his idol,
the foreman in certain cases, he is al
ways found on the side Of the latter.
A "Torquemada."
A most serious case of intimidations
against one Of their fellow workers,
was brought to this writer's attention
by the tailors of the vest shop No. II,
located in the same building with the
coat and overcoat shop. A tape sewer
was ruthlessly bothered by ''Torque-
mazda" Of an assistant foreman. The
only difference between the Spanish
inquisitor Torquemada and the assist
ant foreman is that while the former
confined his cruel methods of torture
mostly to Jews, the latter applies his
savage methods of treatment to both
Jews and gentiles alike.
When the worker could stand it no
longer he complained to his shop
chairman. The shop chairman listened
to the workers complaint and let it
go at that. A stool pigeon in the shop
conceived the idea of dealing that
worker a severe blow. On the next
day that worker was taken to task by
his foreman. The foreman accused
him of conspiring with the shop chair
man to beat up the assistant foreman.
The worker categorically denied that
charge. His case was a few days
tater taken up for a hearing before
higher authorities. The charge against
him was naturally not proven. How
ever, he is now well looked after by
the assistant foreman.