The daily worker., 1932-06-28
STEAL ELECTION
FROM BOARDMAN
PAINTERS UNION
Shapiro Put in AS Day
Sec'y by Repeaters
and Underworld

NEW YORK-The membership Of
the Brotherhood of Painters Decora-
tors and Paper Hangers Of America
is seething with indignation at the
ruthless, brutal stealing of the cleo
tion by the machine. In every local
where there was any fairness about
the election, the candidate of the In
terlocal Rank and File Committee
for the Election of Boardman as Day
Secretary got a majority. In locals
400, 499 and COS, Broadman, the left
wing candidate, got votes of three
to one. In locals $50, 261, 442 and
S74 the Shapiro machine, by very
methods, by use Of repsaters paid
for by the International and in many
cases not even members of the union,
and by great concentration of the
forces Of the underworld, simply
stole the election. Shapiro was Of
ficielly given 1887 votes, and Broad
man 1918.
Underworld Rallies.
In local 442 there was a regular
mobilization of the underworld char
acters. Broadman's first watcher
was simply chased out. One watcher
of another independent" candidate
was beaten up and thrown out. Fin
ally all watchers but Shapiro's left
in disgust unable to do thing to
stop the continued repeating. The
chairman and local officials were
even going into the machine and
voting, under pretense of showing
members how to operate the voting
machine.
In local 874, the italian local, votes
were being cast by use of membership
books Of men long dead or dropped
out of the union. Fifty repeaters
were actually counted here.
Local 23O, the autonomous Local"
formerly used by the machine thru
the local officialdom for all sorts Of
sell out schemes the opponents of
Boardman had booze served all day
long. The Shapiro vote was marked
right on the machine. Members were
compelled to vote according to ballots
marked for Shapiro in red ink. In
spite of this, Boardman got votes
| here.
Catch Repeaters.
In local 261, Boardnan watchers
pulled repeaters out of the voting
booth, but the local officials came to
their resc''a. Shapiro was the candi-
date of this local, the Socialists in
it voted for Barnes. but Boardman
nevertheless got 1877 votes, against
Shapiros 400.
Broadman got 1873 votes in Local
1011, although the local had officially
endorsed Shapiro. In this local there
was q local election Friday, in which
Rosenthal, the left wing candidate
for recording secretary ran so far
ahead, that the officials stopped the
count when there were only 80 bal
lots left to count, and tore up the
tally sheets. The officials will now
try by a surprise meetink to railroad
their slate through, and the member
ship should be on guard.
Fight For Program.
The Interlocal Rank and File Com
mittee calls upon the membership
to carry on its work on the basis of
the program on which Broadman
ran; enforcement of union scale and
conditions, all men to be hired thru
an employment bureau controlled by
the rank and file, unemployment in
surarcc funds paid for by the bos-
ser and controlled by the rank and
file of the union. nodiscrimination,
no overtime. no sub contracting or
piece work, reduction of officials sal
aries and a general strike to enforce
these and similar provisions.
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