The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
The Western Union Building Murders.

when prodded by the Daily Worker that anyone should
think there anything for them to do in the matter
They were quite content to allow Police Commissioner
Whalen arrest workers. charge them with criminal
gence and thus throw the mantle of innocence the
contractors and the Western Union Telegraph Company that
urging the erection of the building at the greatest pos
sble speed
The trade union reaction no reason for it to act
confronted is by four fresh graves and by eleven work
still alive to be but who will from on be hand
capped the struggle for existence by the injuries they re-
The toll of death and injuries that does not
the official regime of this section Of the American Federation
of Labor is follows:
THE DEAD.
CARDoNI SALVATORE 43 old of 1O 18th St, Corona
CoIRo ANTONIO 81 of 326 East
JONES' SAMUEL, SO, bricklayer of Baldwin L. /.
ROWING 49, bkayer, of 64S Seventysecond ST. Brooklyn
THE INJURED.
CALDWELL THOMAS, of 3,342 Nineysxh Street Corona,
decorations of scalp four stitches Beekman Street
CELIA AUGUSTINE 49, of Downing Street Brooklyn,
eiyed treatment
COMPIGLIA ANTONY, 448 Hamilton Avenue Astoria,
l. l, treated at for Commissions of the back
GERRTZ of 24s 135th Street treated at
Commissions and abrasons of head
BOWMAN JOHN 49, of 2601 Farragu Road Brooklyn treated
at for shock.
LYONS 49, of ia East 117th Street treated
for conusons of the back.
MARMoN GERONIMO of eighth Avenue Winfield,
Beekman Street Hospital with injuries head
Bellevue Hospital where he remained.
MURPHY, ARTHUR 80, of Fiy-rst
for confusion of left hip
PALMoTT, CARL N. j, for
decorations and commissions of face and body.
RYAN JAMES, of s72 Morris treated
shock
SLATER, WALTER. Ninth Midland Beach,
stitches in scalp at Beekman Street Hospital
Investigation has revealed that there at least six
seriously injured
It is not difficult understand the attitude of the labor
reaction To fight against the underlying of this
tragedy would bring them into open conflict with the Tam
many regime that they support the politics that
refuses to the protection of labor that helped kill
ling for instance every bit of labor legislation matter
how weak that before the last of the state egis
lature
The whole careers of Sam Parks and Robert P Brndel
who operated their graft regimes in large part directly
through the New York building trades council showed that
it profitable to sell out the workers every possible
occasion to the bosses and the capitalist politicians.
The lives of few members of the rank and file and
ures many do not matter the pockets of those high
the official regime are bullying with the brides of the BOSSES
This part of the that flows the traitors
from the collaboration schemes they champion
the industrial peace that they espouse the ideal relation
between the working class and the capitalist class.
The Western Union building murders that leave the
takers in official position cold with Indifference should stir
the OF labor to and energetic protest This should
not only involve the building trades but the whole working
class, all labor suffering under ruthless capitalist expota
ton that puts cheap price workers lives that laughs
at demands for social insurance against accidents DEATH
occupatona diseases unemployment and other ills growing
directly out of industry
In every trade union the rank and file under the leader
ship of the left wing must not hold back from raising the
of the Western Union building murders forcing def
mite program of struggle against the reaction that betrays
the workers interests and seeks protest against
the employers and against the capitalist politicians the Tam
many Hall regime in city and state from which the repub
ican party does not differ one iota.
Every obstacle will be put in the path of these efforts
The trade union bureaucracy today abotagng the
wage demands of the rank and file in the Brcklayers Union
made in connection with the expiration of the present agree
ment May First
The members of this Brcklayers Union who saw
their comrades crushed to death the Western Union Tee
graph building last Saturday have received communica
ton from William Green president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor demanding that they give assistance
striking mill laborn the Caronas because they striking
under the banners of the left wing National Textile Workers
Union. This is open support of the mill owners.
The reaction in the trade union every day
offers multitude of arguments why it should be
pletey overthrow This international May Day of
struggles is time for action against the reaction
The New York Times, democrat of finance CAPT
al fully endorses the republican president Hoover
relief for the farmers The bipartisan political
bination of great business works perfectly.