The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-16
VOLS Report
Apparently
FILED"
ali Right to Lie About Fur
Workers, But Not Tammany

Mayor Walkers office again stated
today that il had no announcement
to make on the contents of the report
of last years fur strike which was
turned over by the Special Investigate
ing Committee of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor last Friday.
A copy Of this report, in fact the
only copy in existence so it is said,
was handed to the mayor for his in
formation because, according to Presi-
dent Green, it contained information
supplied by members of the Furriers
Joint Board relative to payments
made to the police during the strike.
What use he made Of the report was
left to his honor.
Tammany's Own Cops!
So far Mayor Walker has made
no comment at all upon the report.
The rumor is that he is not going
70 make any, and that this whole
graft charge against members of the
police department will be quietly
shelved.
1t was a nasty boomerang, and the
sooner it is forgotten, the better.
For, what was intended as frame
up on members of the New York
Joint Board Of the Furriers' Union.
and planned as a means of discredit-
ing them in the eyes of the worker
end the public, turned out to be ar
attack on the city's police department
and not even A. F. of L. officials
can hit Tammany Halls police and
get away with it.
Not Even True.
1t is reported that Matthew Vol,
head of the investigating committee,
acting-president of the National Civic
Federation, and the leader of the re-
dictionary forces, wrote the report of
what he wanted to find in the inves-
tigation Of the Furriers Union and
that all the other members Of the com
mittee signed their names, without
reading carefully.
At Least Lose Majesty.
Then Vol went to Florida and out
came the newspaper headlines, "a.
F. of L. Investigating Committee
Charges 100000 Graft Paid to New
York Police" The next morning, so
the rumor goes, Inspector Brodericl1
Of the Industrial Squad visited Joseph
P. Ryan, president of the New York
Central Trades and Labor Council
and member of the Investigating
Committee, and said:
"Hey Joe, whathehelli"
And so Ryan telegraphed Woll, say
ing:
"Hey Matty, whathehelll"
Flat Contradiction.
And then President Green tele-
graphed back that the American Fed
Grafton of Labor was a responsible
body and stood by its statements.
Whereupon Ryan announced that the
charges of graft were absolutely not
true; and after that things began
humming.
The result was that Green did not
come to New York right away to see
Mayor Walker as was the announced
plan. Then the mayor had to go to
Havana, and he was busy when he
first returned. And finally by the
time President Green, ct AL, reached
the New York City Hall last Friday,
they made no charge against the po-
lice" and they did not even recollect
that there had ever been any charges
made at all.
No Money For Cops.
Members of the Furriers Joint
Board have denied that they ever made
any statements which would Indicate
that graft had been paid to the po-
lice, and they have dared the In
vestigating Committee, or the officials
of the international to hold a public
hearing on this and all the other
charges made in the report.
Since Mathew Woll, and his COM
mittee have shown no desire to turn
the light Of day on the contents of
this report, and since Mayor Walker
surely does not wish to use against
the police department reported state
ments which are fatty denied by those
quoted, it looks as tho the matter
would be dropped.
So the forces attacking the pro-
gressives in the trade unions once