The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19
A. F. of [. Leaders Betray'
Tom Mooney

full for his victory" Was it few malodorous
job-servng labor leaders who supported Fickert?
Indeed not.
Michael Casey was especially active on behalf
of Fickert during the campaign, making many
speeches for the tool of the Open Shop interests.
Every one of the Transfers Union politicians
gave Fickert their full support. He also car
ried the Endorsement, in fact was the candidate,
of the Union Labor Party of San Francisco.
Fickert, always soGcitous about his friends, the
Tabor leaders" stated during an address before
the Building Trades Council, where he was cor
daily received, that Mooney and Billings sought
to undermine the labor leaders" few days
later, December ID, 1917, he spoke at an open
air meeting and had A. L. Wilde, business agent
of the International Brotherhood of Steam
Shovel and Dredgemen, as chairman
Another very active worker for Fickert was
Andrew J. Gallagher, former secretary Of the
San Francisco Labor Council and elected super
visor of San Francisco County by the Union
Labor Party. Using his political power as a club,
he ordered the Jitney Bus Drivers to carry Flick
ert banners, and made the demand at an execu-
tive meeting of committee men that Jitney Bus
Drivers go on record for Fickert. Gallagher,
member of the Los Angeles Metal Trades Strike
COMMITTEE of 26" who barely escaped peni-
tive of the cowardly men leading the California
Labor Movement .
Prominent among the labor leaders belong
ing to the Fickert Union Labor Club during the
recall election December 1917, were:
James Wilson, business agent of the Brother
hood of Teamsters.
John Bell, first vice president of the Building
Trades Council.
Thomas Clarity president of both the Book
binders Union and the Union Labor Party.
Arthur Warren, president of the Office EN-
ployees' Union.
John Kean, first vice president of the Inter-
national Longshoremens Association.
M. j. Grove, secretary of the Garments Union,
Local 78
Thomas Flynn, business agent of the Cement
Workers Union, Local 30
j. J. Hughes business agent of the District
Council of Carpenters
p j. Gallagher. business agent of the Hold
Carriers, Local 36.
JOS A. Herman, business agent of the Plaster
ers' Union, Local IS.
Martin Richard, business agent Of the Hosting
& Portable Engineers. No. SO.
w. r. Towne. business agent of the Steam
Engineers, Local a.
trio Fixtures, Local A.
VIM. Conboy, business agent of the Brother
hood of Transfers.
Quincy r. Tilton, Bookbinders Union.
w. A. Granfield office Employees Union.
Walter Dryer business agent of the Transfers
Union, Local 276.
j. r. Hopkins, business agent of the Binders
Union, Local 49,
H. W. Wisaining, financial secretary of the
Sheet Metal Workers.
w. J. Burcell, business agent Of the Sign and
Pictorial Painters Union
L. A. Newell, business agent of the Brother
hood of Teamsters.
w. A. Newell. business agent of the Steam
filters Union, Local 209.
Read these names again. What disgusting
list! Here are labor leaders-so they say--from
many representative Internationals of the A. F.
of L. doing their utmost to reflect Fickert This,
too, after Fickert was proven to be direct tool
of the corporations Did Fickert have some kind
Of hold over these leaders" of labor? Did they
think Fickert would help the members of their
unions II they helped him? Fickert didn't care
q damn about the workers-that was not his
business. The corporations put him in office,
and kept him there. to look after their interests
and Fickert. using a political job as whip
hand, made the labor leaders jump through the
hoop nnerrily., The San Francisco Bulletin
APPLY summed up the whole cesspool, stating
THAT among Fickert's supporters will be found
rs to 80 per cent Of the official leaders of the
local labor movement. They are for Fickert be-
cause they are In politics for personal advan-
tage, and he has personal advantages to offer
them which no other candidate has, which will
probably outweigh in their minds the fact that
his election would be a serious blow to legiti-
mate labor"
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