The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-17
FIGHT MASTERS.
and CORRUPTED
UNION LEADERS
Strikebreakers Refuse
to Scab
CBy Worker Correspondent.


ing union workers and the bosses of
Jersey City.
On April l, 1926, the Housewreck-
ers' Union signed a contract with the
bosses at the rate of S105 an hour
for the laborers and $1.1712 for bar
men. The bosses of Jersey City signed
the contract with Local 247 of Jer-
sey City and also with Local 95 of
New York, for the reason that the
two locals are affiliated Local PAT
is newly organized and hasn't a suf-
ficient number of members to keep
it up. Therefore the members of Jer-
sey City local worked in New York
and the members of New York Local
95 came over to Jersey City to work.
Hire German Scabs.
Several months later in November
of the same year the bosses started
to hire scabs, German workers, at
rs cents an hour This was done at
the suggestion of the forman for the
Goldberg Wrecking Co., which is the
largest housewrecking company in
Jersey City. This foreman, Joseph
S. Simionik, was appointed foreman
by an agreement between the work
ers and Goldberg. He had a fight
with one of the workers, and had the
worker fired. We would not stand
for this foreman, whom we had ap-
pointed, going to the boss to get a
worker fired, and we took the fore
manship away from Simionik. SINH
onik then went to Goldberg, who is
the main boss among the housewreck
ers, and advised him to hire scabs.
The boss hired German scabs for rs
cents an hour, thus breaking the
agreement he had signed with us.
The German workers, when they
saw us picketing, quit after a half
day, because they did not know they
were sscabbing at first.
The delegates from Local 95 in New
York asked Goldberg why he hired
the scabs. The bosses claimed that
the wages signed for in the agree
ment were too high and that they
could get workers for half the pay
The members of the local all went on
strike and the bosses hired Negro
scabs at Is and so cents an hour. We
put out picket lines and the bosses
called the police to stop u.s. This went
on for about two weeks
Brandle Corrupt
Then the bosses called the union
officials to meet them at the office
Of Theodore Brandle, president Of the
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ell. The result was that Brandle told
the union that he was not satisfied
with our officials and he made all
kinds of queer statements, saying he
was not satisfied with the officials
Of Local 247, and that we were not
obeying the constitution of the union
because we had not elected a delegate
for 3 years. This was not so as we
had elected delegate for years
few days before the meeting in
Brandle's office. This delegate went
around to the Building Trade Coun-
Gil, with his credentials, but Brandle
refused to recognize him.
Brandle refused to help us in our
strike, and after 5 weeks of picket
ing we had to give it up on account
of lack of money. The international
Of the Hod Carriers Union sent an
organizer, Sullivan, to organize the
strike, but he did nothing. Goldberg,
the head of the bosses, told us he had
spy in our meetings, and that when
ever we formed plans for picketing.
the next morning Goldberg would
meet us with policemen. He got an
injunction against allowing us to
carry signs. One time Goldberg and
his chauffeur attacked T. Novik, our
delegate, but the police did nothing
to Goldberg.
Nazarenko Worked With Bosses.
After the strike was over Simionik,
the expelled forman, who had told the
bosses to hire scabs, went to Naza-
renko, who was the car of Local IS
in New York and who robbed that
local. NaZarenko used to rule the
New York local with an iron hand,
had any worker fired by the bosses
whenever he wanted to, and he was
very strong with the bosses. Finally
the New York workers in Local IS
could not stand him any more. so
they expelled him. He sued Local 95
forS1,50O which they had to pay him.
This is the man whom Simionik called
over to Jersey City.
Simionik and Nazarenko, who had
both worked with the bosses against
the workers, started to organize q
separate local in Jersey City, which
they called Local 95, the same as New
York, and got the men who had scab-
bed in the strike to join the union.
Each scab paid $35 to join this fake
local
Start Fake Local No. 81.
These two went to Brandle, the
-,bSad of the Building Trade Council.
Who is called the Building Trade
Gar" Of Hudson county. They told
Brandle thew had 800 members in