The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
Traction Barons Are Demanding Total
Injunctions In Move Against l. R. T. Workers

I Walsh, Joseph c. Phelan and fifty
others.
Bark and Phelan are now employees
/ of the Interborough.
The bill of complaint, which is $50
pages long, describes strikes on the
Interborough lines and charges the
men named with conspiring to union
ize the company employees secretly.
1t contains the constitution of the
federation and portions of resolutions
adopted at meetings of that organi-
cation designed to show that the A.
F. of l.. has embarked on a campaign
to bring an end to company unions"
like the one in which many of the
|. r. 7. employees are enrolled.
Unlawful Assembly"
Attached to the ~ of complaint
are fifty affidavits by employees of
the PETERBOROUGH Rapid Transit al
Ieging that they have been solicited
to become members of the Amalga-
mated Association.
1t is also alleged that the Amalga-
mated Association is holding regular
meetings in the Brooklyn Labor Ly-
ceum appealing to marlborough
Rapid Transit employees to join the
association.
The New York district of the
Workers (Communist) Party issued
the following analysis of the situation
last night:
The brazen deception practiced by
Tammany Hall against the traction
workers has now been fully exposed.
kThe Interborough Rapid Transit Com
pany is taking the most energetic
measures against the traction work
ers of the city. This trust has APP
piled for the most sweeping injunc-
ton in labor history enjoining every
member of the American Federation
Of Labor from doing anything to or
i ganize these workers.
Agreement Ignored
This action is taken in the face of
an agreement reached last July in
which Mayor Walker, acting as me-
diator, promised that no interference
would take place by the Interborough
with the right of the traction work
ers freely to organize in a union.
The Workers (Communist) Party
declared at that time that the agree
ment was farce and that Mayor
Walker and Tammany Hall were
merely using their authority to de-
ceive the traction workers and to pre-
vent the outbreak of the threatening
strike. Of course Coleman and Shea,
the officials of the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION of Street Railway Workers,
were playing the game of Tammany
Hall, with whom they are associated.
S. p. Deceives Workers.
The socialist party at that time
held the agreement to be a victory for
the workers. The character of that
victory is now fully exposed. The
traction workers have not had a
chance to organize and any steps in
that direction have been energetically
fought. At the same time the Inter
borough Rapid Transit Company has
gone ahead organizing strikebreaking
corps and has continued it's tyran-
nical policy of maintaining a company
union in place of bona fide union
organization. This policy of Tam
many Hall is part of its system of
strikebreaking, interfering with pick
citing, issuing of injunctions and dis
elimination against union men on
city works.
Tammany Hall as the political tool
of big business is not interested in
further union organization, nor in
getting decent wages and working
conditions for the city employees. The
firemen of the city have been de-
handing the establishment of the g.
hour day but have received no re-
spouse from Tammany Hall officials.
The engineers of the city have de-
manded an increase in wages of 35
per cent, to which they are entitled
according to the report of the Civil
Service Commission, but instead they
have gotten only sop in order to
silence opposition before election day.
Workers can expect only obstruc-
ton and energetic opposition from
Tammany Hall to union organization.
Only aggressive steps on their own
part to organize themselves into
unions will avail them anything. Only
a labor party based upon the trade
unions of the city can establish union
organization, decent wages, living
conditions and working conditions for
the traction workers of the city.
| Traction workers must fight Tam
many Hall.
Traction workers must support the
Workers (Communist) Party in its
energetic campaign for labor party
in this city.
The statement was signed by W.
w. Weinstone, New York district or
ganizer of the Party.
"VOte Communist" Is Z
Workers Party Call