The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-23
THE SECOND PRIZE WINNER
MAYOR WALKER
BREAKS SUBWAY
WORKERS STRIKE
City Squanders Funds to
Get Scabs

administration has within the last few
weeks broken two strikes of. subway
workers who went on strike in an at
tempt to force the transit companies
to pay the prevailing rate of wages al
ready granted them by law. The city
administration is squandering thou
sands of dollars advertising over the
length and width of the land for men
to come here for jobs building sub
ways. Not single New Yorker can
be found building subways because
they demand the prevailing rate Of
wages.
This sensational charge and many
others were hurled at the Tammany
administration by Delegates Curtis,
Hanna and the many other represen-
tatives of the city day laborers and
mechanics to the Central Trades and
Labor Council of New York.
Betrayal Denounced.
The meeting of the Central Trades
and Labor Council, usually a placid af-
fair of conservative trade union men,
at the last meeting seethed with pro-
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delegate of the per diem employees,
loyal Tammany men most of them, bit
terly denounced what they termed the
betrayal of the Tammany city ad-
ministration. 'It is no secret that or
ganized labor put over the Walker
ticket" said Delegate Hanna. "They
promised us the prevailing rate of pay
(union scale). They promised us the
S-hour day They even appropriated
million dollars for equalized rates.
We now have AZ applications for equal
ization of pay pending before the
board of estimate. They are COM
pletely ignored. They are referred to
the morgue-the budget committee"
''The million appropriated, the comp
troller to me in plain words, is for
raising salaries of yearly employees and
not for wages of day laborers5p re-
ported another. "And some of the
commissioners there are our own la
Dor men, too"
Forsake Non-Partisan Politics.
Delegate Lefkowitz of the Teachers
Union, sadly repented his political mai
vette. Last October the teachers were
promised a raise in salary and he
worked his head off to put Walker
and Tammany into the city hall. Then
Gov. Smith vetoed the Ricca bill grant
ing an increase to teachers and Brother
Lefkowitz is sore and enlightened.
Last fall | was out of politics" he
said "Now I've learned my lesson.
think we may soon have to get into
politics, and it will not be non-partisan
politics either"
Division Of Forces Blamed.
Chairman Mulholland hit the bulls
eye when he told the delegates that
the main reason why the chaotic state
among the city employees prevailed
was because the various locals en-
gagged in the controversy with the city
administration persisted in acting "on
their own" even intimating to the
Central Trade and Labor Council to
keep its "hands off" and Ito mind its
own business"
Action Demanded.
One of the delegates demanded that
the Central Trades and Labor Council
arrange an immense demonstration on
Labor Day to show the world that
ESQ, 900 organized New York workers
can no longer be ignored. This was
not accepted, though it received con-
siderable support. A motion finally
prevailed that a special meeting be
called of the Central Trades and Labor
Council for the purpose Of taking joint
action on the matter Of making the
city administration live up to the law
of paying the prevailing rate Of wages.
Furriers Triumph.
One triumphant note sounded in this
welter of discomfort. A committee OF
the triumphant furriers appeared and
thanked the Central Trades and La
Dor Council for the aid extended dur
ing their fight for the 5-day, 40-hour
week and urged the Central Trades
and Labor Council to help carry on the
fight for the workers in the other in
dustries.
Aid to British Miners.
The British women's committee for
the ala OIL IHe niuelb dPPSoASN ASt
help to the British miners. The Cen
trail Trades and Labor Council gave
them a cordial hearing and granted a
credential to allow them to visit all
affiliated local unions. A collection
taken up among the delegates Melted
over SIT.
Progressive Resolutions Adopted.
On the initiative Of the Italian La
cal No. 80. international Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union, a strong reso-
luton was adopted condemning the at
tempted inroads of fascism In Amer
lea. In another resolution Mayor
Walker was called on to give the
workers Of the city adequate represen-
tation on the citizens municipal and
educational survey committees that he
is now selecting.
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