The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15


davits, testimony and other material
contained in the volume many more
thousands of dollars were expended.
Vastly greater sums were laid out in
building up the system of espionage
and enslavement which the proposed
injunction seeks to perpetuate.
Under the provisions of the So
called dual contracts between the city
and the railroads, the city is forced to
pay for these expenditures. The money
comes out of taxation which means, of
course, that indirectly and finally the
workers themselves pay for these
charges.
Pay For Own Enslavement.
Thus we may behold the astonish-
ing and unprecedented spectacle of a
body of organized workers under COM
pulsion to bear the cost of creating an
instrument aimed directly at them
selves and one which will restrain
them from agitating, speaking TO, in
fluencing and associatiAg with - with
whom?
With their brothers, their fathers,
cousins, uncles, relations, friends and
acquaintance!
For consider this:
The majority of the traction work.
ers employed by the companies of
Greater New York are Irish Ameri-
cans. so are a large number of the
members of the trade Unions in the
local labor movement. The older men
among the traction workers have sons,
nephews, relations, who are plumbers,
masons, plasterers. The younger ones
have fathers, brothers, uncles and
acquaintance who are steam filters,
carpenters, fathers, boilermakers, etc.
Tammany Responsible.
Nearly all of these workers live and
move and have their being in Tam
many Hall. Yet Tammany Hall, which
for long years in New York City has
been under the domination of the
traction interests, is quite responsible
for the whole attack being prepared
against the workers. A Tammany
judge is hearing the case. The Tam
many governor, Al Smith, undoubted-
ly, sanctioned the issuance of the pre-
vious injunction now in force. In fact
nothing of Importance is done in New
York politics except with the sanction
of Tammany Hall.
Practically all of the workers here
mentioned belong to the same social
and fraternal organizations, the same
Irish County Clubs and Societies. Yet
it is in these very organizations that
Tammany Hall has one of its strong
est bases.
Friend Turns Against Friend.
On the jobs and in their home lives,
in the various departments and shops
Of the traction lines, the workers are
even more closely thrown together and
related. Many of them live in the
same neighborhoods and even in the
same apartment houses. They are
members of the same churches and
religious societies. Some of them
have worked side by side for a quar-
ter of a century.
Yet such is the demoralizing effect
of the espionage system established
! by the traction masters, such is the
compelling power over their lives eX-
erted By the unhoIy trinity in trac-
ton, the yellow dog contract, the
company union, the injunction, that
friend has been turned against, and
distrusts friend, and relation spies up
on and testifies against relation.
| For instance:
Take the case of Danny" Holland
Every one on the l. R. T. knows "Dan-
NY" Ask anyone about him. Ninety
nine out of hundred will testify to
what a good fellow is Danny" But
look what the Interborough spy sys-
tenn has made out of Danny"
! Prominent among the affidavits by
which the marlborough hopes to es.
I tablish its case is one of Daniel P
Holland, verified July Is, 1927. Lis
ten to Danny" speak:
Betrays Workers.
/ Daniel P. Holland, being duly
sworn, deposes and says: that he
! is a motorman and has been en-
/ ployed by the PETERBOROUGH Rapid
I Transit Company for the past
twenty-five years. That he is now
and has for eleven years last past
been a member Of the Brotherhood,
and for five years has been a dele
( gate to the General Committee of
the Brotherhood from Motormen
and Switchmen Local No. 1, Man.
haitian Division. That he has known
/ -Incnrh @ Phalan one of the de-