The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20
EXPOSE PANKEN
IN AN ALLIANCE
WITH TAMNANY
Unite Against Toilers
in the Fur Shops

gangsters and the supporter of po-
lice attacks on militant workers, is
clearly revealed in the case of the
attack by a squad of ten "gorillas"
in the pay of the socialist" COM
pany union in the fur industry on
The workers in the shop of j. Yaken,
312 Seventh Ave.
Jacob Panken, the former $50
cialist" municipal judge, is patron
of Morris Kaufman, head of the
socialist" company union, speaking
at meetings in his support when
required to do so. Panken was one
of the attractions at the so-called
Convention" of the company union
where Kaufman was reelected
president. The kaufman Union"
is supported morally as well as
financially by the socialist" For
wards, which gives the same assis-
lance to the Panken campaign.
Panken is, therefore, very closely
related to the attack by a number
of "gorillas" sent by the socialist"
company union, headed by Morris
Kaufman, against the workers in
the Yaker shop, where the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
has an agreement. The first attack
that took place on Friday, August
Sth, was repulsed by infuriated
workers of the Yaker shop sup
ported by other fur workers.
Tammany Hits at Workers.
Panken's friends, agents of the
company union" with the aid of
their police allies, replied with a
frame-up against Jack Schneider
organizer of the industrial union
who was arrested and charged with
an attack on the Panken-Kaufman
gorillas. They knew that it would
be easy to prejudice Schneider in
the capitalist courts because of the
fact that he had already been the
victim of another frame-up against
workers, the Mineola case.
This week the company union"
sent another band of gorillas to the
Yaker shop. The workers fought
off the attack until the appearance
of the police called in to aid the
gangsters. The storm of protest
raised by the workers was so in
sistent, and the attack so unjusti-
fled, that the police were forced to
arrest the Committee" of the COM
pany union, who were caught red
handed armed with all kinds of
weapons.
One of them, James Ryan, had
attacked worker with a knife, cut
ting his clothing. Out of the ten
gorillas arrested, two are Official
ly" furriers but actually gangsters,
but eight never had any connection
at all with the fur trade. These
are James Ryan, John Beck, Joe
Brown, Fred Matchin, Toney Rio,
Harry Kelly, Paul Vogel and Sam
Bernstein, who was the chauffeur"
o. the socialist" Benjamin Schles-
niger, during the fake cloak and
dress strikes conducted by Schles-
inger's company union last year.
:. Tammany Aids Socialists"
The capitalist courts, in which
Panken had seen service, rallied to
the aid of the gorillas when they
were brought before the magistrate
in the Jefferson Market Court. All
ten of the gangsters, some of them
having long criminal court records,
were put under the meager charge
of "disorderly conduct" and were
allowed bail of $500 each. James
Ryan, who was actually caught in
the act of attacking a worker with
knife, was let off with the simple
charge of assault"
Jack Schneider, arrested at the
office of the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union, was treated
entirely differently, being held in
Jail for eight days, and only last
Saturday released on $1,000 bail.
Under these circumstances it is
clear again, in an actual day-to-day
struggle of the workers that the
socialist candidate, Panken, try as
he may, cannot disassociate him
self from the Tammany Hall police
and courts" declares j. Louis Eng
dahl, Communist candidate for lieu
tenant governor. at should be
clear to all workers that the So
cialist' Panken carries on only a
fake attack on Tammany Hall, the
jailer of the Unemployed Delega-
ton, Foster, Minor, Amter and Ray
mond. Workers will quickly see the
close alliance between Tammany
Hall and the Socialist party during
this election campaign, turning to
the Communist Party with its call
to struggle of Glass Against
Classp"
every such incident" declared
Engdahl, "helps redouble the ener-
gies of the workers in the initial
phase of the campaign, for the col
lection of signatures for putting a
full Communist ticket in the field,
in New York City and throughout
the state"
Alexander Trachtenberg is the
Communist candidate for Congress
against Panken and the Tammany
Hall choice in the 14th District
which includes the East Side below
Fourteenth Street. The Communist
Party is also putting a full ticket
for the state assembly in this dis