The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-19
Labor Officialdom
Exposes Itself


THE executive council of the American Federation of La
bor in its anxiety smash the Furrers Union and its
left wing leadership New York. had official fingers
badly nipped
Accusing New York joint board of brbng the police
in the stkehe accusation being about the choicest
piece of black guardsm of which there record in the
labor novement-the executive council finds
ments challenged by less parsonage than President
Ryan of the New York Central Labor Council member of
the committee which investigated the urers strike APP
pointed by President Green
The full story of rift official published
in another column 1t is sordd tale and illuminating in
connection with the present struggle for fighting trade
unionism.
president RYAN rises to defend the police department
of Tammany Hail. He is just hostile to the left wing
leadership of the furrers union VicePresident Wo
President Green Morris Sgman he is greatly
the implied attack the integrity of the New
York police force
According to President Ryan the police, actuated by
high of duty could be prevented from smuggling and
arresting strike pckets by any amount of money
The official statement of the New York Central Labor
Council says:
Mr.. Ryan himself does not believe that member
one penny of graft because he is resident Of New York
and KNOWS what the police GToe IS e0mR9Sed OF
MANY OF WHOM ARE FORMER MEMBERS OF THE
LOCAL TRADES UNIONS OF THIS CITY. Emphasis
Ours.)
THIS is indeed interesting.
defense of of the notorious official strebeakng
agencies the United States the industrial Squad
which made murderous assault upon meeting OF the In
terboough Rapid Transit strikers some time ago and the
industrial squad which always charged with the task of
beating up pickets and raiding union meetings.
This is the type of Individual chosen uphold the
of trade unon What better proof is needed of the
charge made by The DAILY WORKER time and time again
charge that the official labor of New York,
which is making the left wing is hand in glove with
the police department. and other agencies of the bosses?
for the charge that officials Of the furrier union
workers beaten up cited in the statement of the
New York joint board show that President Ryans be-
industrial squad many of whom former members
of the local trades unions" functioned as usual.
The officials of American Federation of Labor try
strike leaders to the police while the local New
York union officials defend the police and boast that
former of unions the pay roll of
Tammany Hail. doing the most brutal kind of skebreakng
ME hope that Green VOL and Ryan will keep up the good
wv work. They Exposing" the left wing in
that will fill the heart of every sincere trade unonist with
great Joy So far the exposure of the left wing has served
only prove every charge has made against the official
adershp-from corruption doWnWards
With the executive council of the A. F. of playing
of police nformers, the officials of the New
York Central Labor pleading the of uniformed
thugs defending stkebeakng and the gangs
ing another because of internal differences the left wing
left free to organize strengthen the unions make them in
and effective weapons of the worersthe task it
engaged in when the exposure" began
The issue has been greatly clarified by the utteances of
the A. r. Of l. and New York labor leaders. 1t quite
plain that the real struggle between strikers and strike
breakers.
THE great majority of the American workers will have
difficulty in choosing the side they will support They
ready yet turn the unions to the police de-
partmen and for the ormer members of trade unions
Whom President Ryan says members of the industrial
Squad they exactly loyal to the labor
labor officials who defend them and who try to turn
strike leaders over to the police.
The left wing fighting for trade unions weapons
of the The right wing policy of the reaction is to
make the unions adunc of the police department and eff
cheney instruments of the capitalists.
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