The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27
2R0ACH ORDERS
LACE SLASH FOR
ELECTRICIANS
T.U.U.L. Has Program
of Real Demands
BY JACK TAYLOR.

| members OF Local NO. 5 lnterna-
tional Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers are constantly growing
worse. Out of a membership of
$500, $500 are unemployed. Con-
ditions on the job are unbearabIe.
Business agents refuse to enforce
union rules. Speed-up is forced
upon the workers to the limit
Groups of workers are fired from
their jobs daily.
Building trades workers of other
crafts, carpenters, painters, brick
layers, plumbers, etc., suffer from
the same conditions that confront
the electrical workers.
Due to the A. F. of L. policy of
''the industry first and not the
union' which means "the bosses
first and not the workers" and also
as a result of the close collabora-
ton between the officials of Local
8 and the bosses, speed-up and low
er wages are forced upon the
workers.
Breach For Less Wages.
H. H. Breach, Little Caesar" of
the building trades, again comes to
the forefront with one of his
schemes to fool the workers. The
following is from an article by
Breach in the June issue of the
To,,r,o1 80 L1Ioo+,-iool No,I-o,.- owl
Operators:
each time the construction wage
scale advances justly it is likely to
mean less work for your members
on operating, maintenance, shop
and repair work in finished build
ings, plants, etc. Not only do you
lose this work-which means steady
jobs-but you get little of the al
teration and construction work that
follows. This is the result, because
this work is harder to control"
And further in the same article,
Breach asks the electrical workers,
But what are you to do about it q?
You know it's useless to demand
your top wage for this type of
work." (My emphasis. To
Refuse To Organize.
For many years the electrical
workers employed in operating,
maintenance, shop and repair work
in finished buildings, plants, etc.,
have been answered mo" when
they applied to the officials of
Local 8 for organization. For years
the $4,000 alteration electrical
workers of Greater New York were
refused organization by the leader
ship of International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers. Now "Bro-
Their" Breach tells US ''this work is
hard to control"
With the sharp economic crisis
in the building trades industry, new
construction work offers less en-
ployment to building trades work
ers this year than at any other
time in the history of the building
trades.
Breach and the officials of Local
8 are aware of this fact. Some
thing must be done to fool the
workers into believing that altera-
ton work in finished buildings and
plants can give employment to the
thousands of unemployed members
of Local 3. Breach and the ma
chine in the union know perfectly
we'll that the same economic factors
responsible for the unemployment
of thousands of electrical workers
doing new construction work, are
also responsible for the unemploy-
ment of thousands of alteration
electrical workers. Breach also
knows that while $500 out Of the
locals membership of $500 walk the
streets, that 10000 out of $4,000 al
teration electrical workers, who
previously did shop and repair as
well as alteration work in finished
buildings. plants, ETC., walk the
streets side by side with them.
Workers See Trick.
Breach takes too much for grant
ed. The members of Local No.
will not be fooled into believing
that they can obtained employment
in finished buildings, plants, etc.,
while 10000 alteration electrical
workers walk the streets. They do,
however, understand what 'Little
Caesar" means when he tells them
that-"it's useless to demand your
top wage for this type of work.
and that the union must furnish
competent men for this work at
wage rates to fit the conditions
not your DESIRES"
They know that this agent of the
bosses within the ranks of the
working class is telling the work
ers to work below the union scale
on all classes of work. They know
that this labor faker is telling them
to give up all of the conditions that
these workers gained through years
of bitter struggle.
The members of Local No. 8, /. B
E. w., as well as the membership
Of the International Brotherhood
are now fully convinced that Broacf
and the International machine, as
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