The daily worker., 1932-06-28
BROACH MACHINE
STEALS OFFICES
IN ELECTRICIANS
Refuses to Account to
Members for SPEND
ing of S7,000,000

JlOnal BrOJnernOOQ OF EleCCrlCal
Workers reelected" itself Saturday.
1t stole the election and kept unwel-
come watchers" away from the vot-
ing machine in the Central Opera
House. Wilson, running for re-elec-
ton as president, appointed all the
watchers allowed near the machine
H. H. Broach, president Of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, entered New York in 1926
for the purpose of outing the O'Hara
regime, then in control of the New
York local. Since 1926 Broach has
succeeded in organizing a dictatorial
apparatus within Local 3. Members
who dare to oppose the administra-
tion are terrorizsd, beaten and ex-
PEELED from the organization, Since
1926, eight hundred members have
been either expelled, barred from
attending union meetings or Sus-
pended. Members have been forced
to pay fines ranging from $50 to
$1,000. The money accumulated from
this source has never been accounted
for.
The present officers and executive
committee of Local 3 continue to hold
office by the sheer use of physical
force and all forms of trickery, in
cluding the stealing of elections. For
one reason" or another, they de-
clined for long time to hold new
elections. The dissatisfaction of the
members, resulting from the dicta-
torial methods employed by the
Breach administration, has forced
new elections" The election held on
Saturday, June Is, due to the use
of floaters and hundreds of repeat
ers, has resulted in the "re-election"
of the old Broach-H Hogan administra-
tior-with the exception of Finan-
cial Secretary w. A. Hogan, who is
replaced by David G. OrHara.
Dispose of S7,OOO,OOO Since 1926.
The Broach-H Hogan administration
OF Local 3 has up to date not ac-
counted for an expenditure of the
locals funds to a total of $1,000 600
since 1926. In Nov, 1923, H. H.
Broach, then international president
of the IB.E.W., transferred $4,000
from the general fund of the union
to the organizing committee. The
organizing committee is directly con-
trolled By the International office
The $4,000 have been disposed of
and no accounting has been given the
members. Since 1926 the organizing
committee of Local No. 3 has dis
posed of $2,000,000 and no accounting
has been given the members. In 1929,
the eight thousand members of Lo-
cal Union were assessed $50 for
journeymen electricians and $25 for
helpers. According to Broach and
the other officer Of Local 3, this as
sessment was to serve as a strike
fund in a contemplated strike or
lockout. The strike or lockout did
not take place. Them oney raised as
a result of the assessment was dis
posed of and no accounting has been
given to the members.
Ex-Convict Financial Secretary
William A. Hogan, International
treasurer and former financial secre-
tsry of Local 3, includes in his collec-
ton methods, death benefits. Hogan
got many members to go to his law
yer and name him as beneficiary in
nf Ia rL 10
have received the money after several
members had died His death benefit
graft had other angles, to: To raise
the mclpey for these benefits each of
the trdn 1000 members in the local
was alJays assessed so cents in case
of death, of total of $4,000. Hogan
was unable to explain to the Lock
wood Committee what became of the
other $1,000 every time a 81 900 death
claim was paid Hogan served at
Sing Sing. Hogan's integrity and
Honesty" is typical of the Broach-
Hogan administration as a whole.
The Insurance Racket.
In 1929 Broach and his administra-
zion established in New York a group
insurance policy for the members of
Local 3. To this insurance fund all
contractors, big and small, had to
pay II cents formerly 20 cents per
hour per man employed. Under this
scheme the favored contractors had
control of the money ThrO1lCh thie
method they were able to gain in
formation as to how much work each
contractor was doing and how much
thelabor cost on each job. Using
this information as a basis for flu
ture estimating and bidding for jobs
the favored contractors obtained the
services of the union agents and the
union administration generally, to
squeeze out and prevent the smaller
contractors from obtaining any large
amount Of new construction work.
In return for this, the favored con-
tractors bought their group insurance
policy from the Union Cooperative
Lille Insurance Co.-which is con-
trollsd by H. H. Broach. At a re-
cent meeting of Local 3, the officers
of that local bullied the members
into allowing the administration to
transfer the remaining insurance
funds TO the unemployment fund or
any other fund legally possible. Thus
the administration will soon dispose