The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-13

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Charles G. Wood is trying to break
he shoe strike. Both Miller and
GelIer have applied for injunctions
against the strikers. Gellers applica-
zion is based on a rambling affidavit
oy Charles G. Wood.
This man Wood has a long record
as vicious enemy of the workers.
He is Commissioner of Cancellation in
the U. S. Department of Labor, and
he says himself that he is coming to
the aid of the I. Miller Shoe Co. and
the Andrew Geller Shoe Manufactur-
ing Co.. at the orders of Secretary of
Labor Doak, the secretary Of depor-
tations," the man who holds Edith
Berkman in detention and has given
her tuberculosis for her leadership of
the Lawrence strike. Doak has
boosted of the hundreds of foreign
born workers he has driven from this
country. Now Doaks man, Wood, is
again attacking native and foreign
born alike.
Hates Real Unions
Woods job is to run around to
strike after strike and try to per-
suade the strikers to go back. on the
bosses terms. He tried it in the
famous Gastonis strike, and he has
tried it in many other strikes. He
has discovered that where strikers
are led by the A. F. of L. or some
Independent leader who can be
bought his job is easy. In strikes
led by the strikers themselves,
through their Trade Union Unity
Lesgus unions, he admits in a book
he wrote two years ago, he could not
trick them back So he fights to
smash the militant unions.
When the shoe workers, through
their T. U. U. L. union. had favorable
contracts with Al shoe shops in
Brooklyn and Manhattan in 1929,
Wood wrote a circular letter to the
employers, advising them that the
government would stand back of
them if they would break these con-
tracts and lock out the workers.
This they did, and cut wages, and
started the great shoe strike Of
1929 80.
Hates Foeign Born
Wood testified in the Fish Com
mission hearings that the government
should pass a bill to drive foreign
born leaders Of TIE workers out of
the country, and Fish is now sup
porting the Dies bill, to exile from
this country all foreign born militant
workers.
In his present afidavit, signed June
9th, Wood says that Doak sent him
to lock into the I, Miller and Geller
strikes here
Likes Wage Cuts
Instead of trying to find out what
horrible wages the workers were get
ting, instead of trying to stop the
wage cuts, the afidavit of Wood
shows nothing done by him along
that line. The affidavit shows Wood
trying to find some grounds to arrest
( or deport the strike leaders. He finds
that some of the leaders are Com
nunists. He doesn't bother to find
out that the union takes in all work
ers, without regard to their political
opinions, and any member can be
elected to any union Office.
On the af1davit he makes a bitter
attack on L Rosenberg, who is SEN
fenced to ten days by an I. Miller
Judge for leading in the picketing at
that shop.
Wood attacks Steve Alexanderson,
one of the union leaders, because
Alexanderson has gone to the Soviet
Union and has come back and told
American shoe workers that in the
Soviet Union there are good condi-
tons in the shops, wages are rising
all the time, the workers have vaca-
ton with pay, there is no unemploy-
rnent, etc. Reports like that make
Woods Job of strike breaking harder,
Tries To Start Frameup
Wood turns stool pigeon for the
bosses and the police, by announcing
in his af1davit that a strike leader
named Ivanof is "a notorious Com
naunist and is known to the police
department as one who is suspected
Of promoting intimidations and as
saults against those who refuse to
jcin the Communist movement" The
cops now know they should frame up
Ivanof, and Wood even suggests
what kind of lies they should tell