The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-21

NOTE DISCLOSES
POLICE ALLIANCE
WITH SCAB union
Police Promise Sealed
in Workers Blood

A document of decided interest to
rkers everywhere is reprinted
herewith. 1t is a letter sent by ex-
Commissioner of Police Warren to
the manager of the socialist com
pany union in the cloak and dress
industry, Julius HICKMAN.
"You'lI Never Regret It."
The letter, which was sent to the
scab union officials on April II,
thanks that official for his good
wishes, and very significantly tells
him: upon my retirement you will
not regret having congratulated me-"
The congratulations of HICKMAN
were sent at the time Warren was
appointed to his post.
Lending spice to this expose. the
Saturday, Dec. Is issue of yellow
Jewish Forward" commenting edi-
torially on the resignation of the
police head Warren, points out that
Warren's appointment was marked
by an awakening of the under
world" The editorial then charges
that the only reason for Warren's
appointment was because he was a
Tammany man. "Tammany had
said that Warren was all right" the
socialist Forward" Indignantly
says, after charging that the reason
for his resignation was that Tam
many Hall wanted to cover up the
scandalous disclosures being made
thru the Rothstein murder case.
Also the Forward Gang.
Right here the question arises,
was it only Tammany Hall that said
that Warren was all right?
No! 1t is seen that the creation
of the "Forward"-the scab union
of Schlesinger- HICKMAN and Co.,
also officially said that Warren was
all right! And good wishes" were
sent to boot!
What business relations did the
scab union leader Mr.. HICKMAN
have with the Tammany police COM
missioner? What were the trans
actions of Mr.. HICKMAN, who is
member of the socialist party and a
member of the Forward Association,
with the chief of the Tammany
police, to earn so satisfactory" a
reply as this: "you will not regret
having congratulated me?"
1t Speaks for Itself.
The letter is self explanatory when
the recent history of the needle
trades workers struggles are re-
examined. Warren did conduct the
office of the Commissioner of
Police" to the satisfaction of .sthe
-Schlesinger- Forward scab
union. The police did remain faith
full to his side of the bargain with
the scab agents, and did mighty we'll
in helping the company union in its
fight with the rank and file cloak
and dressmakers.
& The police terror against the
cloak and dressmakers during the
time of this letter is we'll .remem-
bered. Plenty of blood of garment
workers and furriers was split in
the strikes a few months after the
date of the letter. The underworld
thugs paid for by the Forward,
though openly admitting to police
that they were paid by the scab
union, were freed by obliging Judges,
and with the alliance of bosses, So
cialists and Tammany police the
mighty unions of the needle trades
workers were wrecked.
Workers have 'ong ago recognized
the coalition of forces they are
fighting. The police, the bosses, the
Forward, Tammany Hall and the
scab company union of the Schles-
myers and Hochmans and McGradys.
1t is well known that Schlesinger
endorses the candidacy of the Tam
-erany man Untermeyer and the can
didacy pf Col. Lehman, banker who
"lent" she scab union $4,000. This
exposure merely piles further proof
,of the oneness of the socialists with
bhe enemies of the workers.