The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
BROACH BUILDS
N0-STRIKE FUND
TO AID BOSSES
Electrical Union Head
Has New Trick on Men

committee of five which is COM
posed of four contractors and one
union representative. This commit
tee can dispose of the money as it
sees fit.
In the first eight months Of 1929
there has been a drop Of approx
mately SO per cent in building con-
struction as compared to the first
eight months of 1923. This, coupled
with the speed-up forced upon the
workers and the INFLAMMATION of
the building trades generally, is
having its effect upon the workers
in the nature Of unemployment and
the suffering resulting therefrom.
Breach and the other misleaders
of the Building Trades Council are
doing nothing to correct this con1i-
ton. Instead, they create a fund
which they call "old age and dis
ability insurance fund" In prac-
tice this is ''nO strike insurance
fund" and therefore will be a pow
erful anti-strike weapon which
Breach and the other takers Of the
Building Trades Council have placed
into the hands of the bosses. This
anti-strike scheme is also part of
the war preparations of the govern
ment. During war time the bosses
want submissive labor. This, the
agency of the bosses, the Building
Trades Council (including Broach) !,
are trying to bring about.
Increases Unemployment.
The twenty cents per hour per
man is also the price paid to Breach
by the bosses for his efficiency
scheme which compels members of
the union to attend an electrical
school where they are taught other
efficiency schemes to increase pro-
duction. (Broach's pamphlet.) I'm
der capitalism increased production
means more profit for the bosses
and greater unemployment for the
workers.
Breach continually brags about
the good conditions he claims to
have brought about, but he no
longer brags about the union label
on electrical fixtures installed by
members of the union. This Inter
faker must have good rea-
sons for not mentioning once more
the question of the fixture label. He
and his machine in the union have
granted Sterling -Bronz, Black and
Boyd, Cassidy and many other large
concerns manufacturing electrical
fixtures, the privilege land we won
der at what price glory) of employ
ing members Of the union for the
of electric fixtures that
do not bear the union label.
Sell the Label.
The complete sell out of the fix
ture label to the bosses proves
again the correctness of the asser-
ton that C. e. Norman, chairman
of the Building Trades Contractors
Association, fully controls the Build
ing Trades Council and its corrupt
When the members of Local 8 ap-
proach Breach and ask for an ex-
PLANTATION of these concessions to the
bosses, he simply answers, II am
handling this" and that settles the
question. When "Jake" Solomon,
an old labor faker and secretary of
the organization committee of Local
8, is approached on this question he
merely snarls and does not answer
at all. If member insists on an
answer he is simply barred from
future meetings of the local and i'm
mediately stands the loss of his job.
Breach is also known as a labor
faker by the unorganized electrical
workers. He has succeeded in
breaking many organizations of
electrical workers who were pre-
viously refused admittance into Lo-
cal 8. In 1927 he broke Indepen-
dent Local l. This organization was
composed Of alteration electrical
workers not affiliated to the A. F.
of L. In that same year he also
prevented the organization of the
utility electrical workers by the then
militant officials of Local 20, In
ternational Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers, and a sister local
of No. 3.
Fights Organization.
When the militant elements of
Local 20 demanded the organization
of all utility electrical workers,
Breach and his clique threatened
expulsion from the brotherhood and
organized a campaign of terror
against the progressive members of
that local.
In spite of the fact that there are
about 10000 to $4,000 unorganized
alteration electrical workers in
Greater New York, the officials of
Local 3, including Breach, have not
raised a finger towards organizing
these workers. To prevent the
workers from joining the union they
have raised the initiation fee to
5000, with prospects Of raising it
still higher.
Many electrical workers who
through their past experiences with
the A. F. L. have become convinced
that Local 3, I. B. f. W., will not
organize them, have Joined the
Building Trades and Construction