The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
ALLEN A THUGS
FAIL AT MURDER;
BEG POLICE AID
Locals UnderWrite Help
for Two Years
By a Worker Correspondent


ers more enthusiastic and hopeful
than ever The national office of the
American Federation of Full-Fashion-
ed Hosiery Workers has wired them
that the various locals of the union
have agreed to underwrite their strike
benefits for a period of two years.
Their strike benefits are as fol-
lows: For married men, $40 per
week and two dollars extra per week
for each child in the family; foI
single men, SIG per week; for girls.
S12 per week.
Foremen Join Strike
Besides this good news, their en-
thusiasm mounted when they sue
ceeded in winning over to their strike
two foremen who were employed by
the Allen-A. AS these two foremen
are highly skilled workers and their
absence will greatly hinder the at
tempts of the open-shop firm to in
struct unskilled scabs in the work of
the knitters and toppers, the winning
over Of these two men by the union
forces is considerable achievement. |
The two foremen who refused to |
train scabs any further were greeted
with cheers by the strikers 1t is evil |
dent that the Allen-A Company is |
fighting desperately with its back to
the wall and will in all probability |
soon capitulate.
I am enclosing timely excerpt
from the Kenosha Hosiery Worker |
published by the American Fedora
ton of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Work
ers.
Guns.
"The guns have appeared in the
hands of the Allen-A strikebreaking |
outfit. And it is due only to a miracle |
that actual murder was not done.
"As it is, one Of our Kenosha boys
is lying in a hospital, shot down by |
the crew which went out on last Fri
day night to try to spread terror
among the locked-out workers.
Some of the facts in connection
with this episode have not been given
the people Of Kenosha. 1t is inter-
esting to know, for example, that at |
i. least six Pennsylvania thugs were in
the cars which attacked the locked |
out workers.
Murder Cars.
when the murder cars came up |
to the Allen-A mill, after their re-
turn from the shooting, these six men
got out Of the cars and rushed into |
the mill. After that. two of the cars
went over to the policeman guarding |
the mill and asked for protection!
That has been an old game of these
thugs. First, to attack our men and |
then rush to the police and ask for
escorts to their homes or to the mill.
eve ask GU to examine the arsenal |
found in these two cars by the police, |
which we reproduce in this issue This |
proves all the contentious we have
been making about the guns, black |
jacks and other deadly weapons car
ried by these out-of-town strikebreak-
ers and their aides of this city.
what has been happening at the
mill that led up to this open defiance
Of the law? Our informants have
kept us advised from daH to day
that the Pennsylvania sluggers and
gunner have been melting the local
strikebreakers to attack our men. In
order to stir up the local strikebreak-
ers to action and gun play, stories
were circulated through the mill that
leading members of our union had
been beaten up by the outside men. 1t
was said that Maceo Kueny had been
treated in this fashion, and that Erich
Tillman had had his car damaged be-
yond repair.
THE purpose Of these stories was
clear. 1t was to make the local strike
breakers think that, if such prominent
members of the union could be man
handled in this fashion, that others
could be shot down like cattle.
Eve are reliably informed that
there were two sawed-off shotguns in
the murder cars. Where these went
70. no one knows. Perhaps the out-of.
town sluggers took them with them
when they went into the mill
THE time has come. beyond doubt
to halt this intimidation of Kenosha
citizens. The Pennsylvania thugs
must be expelled from our city!
Taxpayers Of the city will be inter
ested in the latest attempt of the
Allen-A company TO bring under
ground pressure on the police depart.
ment.
The company has not been salts
fled with demanding and securing 80
policemen at its plant at 500 in The
nvening without cause. They have
also sought to make strilcebreaking
employment agency out of the police
They have attempted to get the pc
lice to do the dirty work Of intimdat-
'ng our members to go back to worf
prder un-American conditions.
This was being done, incidentally |
on the day following the brutal at
tack on our men by the gun squad Of
the Allen-A strikebreakers While our
members were still sorrowing over
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