The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-01
Mike CAIN, A. F. |.
OFFICIAL GETTING
CASH FROM TRUST
$4,000 a Year for Aid
to Corporation
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tionaP work.
The company is seeking new fran
chise, raise in rates of from 40 cents
to 65 cents and permission to use
%mixed" instead of straight natural
}gas.
The local gas company is part of
the national power trust which recent
ly was able through its control over
U. S. senators and support by the A.
F. of L. to defeat the Walsh resolu-
ton to investigate it's activities. The
power trust lobby was supported by
the American Federation of Labor.
Green, president of the Federation,
signed the telegram which was used
by Senator Jim Walsh in the closing
hours of the recent debate on Walsh's
resolution in the senate.
The telegram sent Jan. 20 from the
meeting of the A. F. of L. executive
council at Miami, Florida, announced
that the federation desired that the
investigation of the power trust
should be made not by anybody under
the influence Of partisan politics,
and advocated that it should be made
by competent experts This charge
of partisan politics was the method
employed by the supporters OF the
power trust in their successful at
tempt to have the investigation"
killed by referring it to the Federal
Trade Commission. In this plan the
advocates of the power trust used
Green's support to the greatest adj
vantage.
To the question which indignant
trade unionists everywhere have been
asking as to what the A. F. OF L.
leaders were getting for this support
Of the power companies, a sufficient
answer appears to have been found
in the disclosures in connection with
the educational" work Of Mike Cain.
Tt has been suggested that the net
value to the power trust OF Green's
efforts will amount to millions. A
hundred thousand dollars would there
fore be considered a small sum for
the power trust to have paid for the
value received.
GREEN'S Pal.
Mike Cain is not alone the friend
and supporter Of Green. Ohio is
Green's own state and he has been
president of the Ohio subdistrict of
the United Mine Workers. In addi-
ton Green has been member of the
Ohio senate with headquarters at Co
lumbus where his connections with
Cain have been intimate and direct.
1t is believed that Gains activities
have been known and acquiesced in
by both Green and Lewis, the presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers.
The connections of the power trust
are not, however, limited to Green
and Cain. In letter to some power
trust senators dated Feb. 10, G. M.
Bugniazet, international secretary of
the Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers, the support of the combine was
likewise urged. He indicated that his
International had agreed to cooper
ate with the A. F. of L. in its sup
port of the lobby.
Also Umbrella Mike"
On the general executive board of
the Electrical Workers is umbrella
Mike" Boyle of Chicago, who is the
right-hand tool and henchman of Sam
uel insult, power magnate of the mid
die west, whose activities have been
aired on the senate floor. Some of
Insults employees have been organized
in Boyle's union, under an arrange
ment satisfactory to insult. Boyle is
one of the most corrupt labor Off
cials in the A. F. of L.
In New York City, H. H. Breach,
international vice president of the
Electrical Workers has openly admit
ted his plan to work together with
the large power companies as against
the small fellows, "the carpet bag
gers" as he called them.
Amalgamated Also.
In addition, the Amalgamated As
sociation of Street and Electrical
Railway Employees is known to have
fallen behind the power trust. At
the time that the lobby was being
enforced at Washington, VIM. D. Ma
hon, president of the organization,
sent down James H. Coleman, who is
now working hand in hand in New
York City with the Tammany Hall
traction-controlled labor officials to
put over fare steal. Coleman APP
pearcd at the senate chambers to lob
by for the power trusts. This is the
man who is making gesture to. or
ganize the New York traction work
ers.
Matthew Woll, Green, Lewis, and
the others mentioned are also known
to be behind the power trusts plan
to kill the Norris bill for government
operation of Muscle Shoals while the
Boulder Canyon Bill sponsored by
Senator Johnson is to be killed CIR the
ground that it is being opposed by orr
ganized labor.