The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
IRT Company
Union Hires
Army Of Dicks
$l94, 622 Charged as
Expenses to Fight
W Orkers
BY an LEI. Worker Correspondent

BY an LR.T. Worker Correspondent
NEW York; buy your valu-
able paper daily, and pass it on to
others when I am through with it.
It is the only paper, with the ex-
ception of the Evening Post. that
prints anything in favor of the
worker. I am an I.RT. worker and
glad to see you expose their COM
pany union, and that one must join
or be dismissed. In the applica-
ton for job one must sign that
he will not join any labor organiza-
ton except the I. r. T. Brotherhood,
the company dominated union.
The men have to pay dues to it.
Thousands of men pay about So to
$40 per year to it or lose their jobs.
Any man who asks to know where
it all goes is dismissed on some
pretence or other. The men have
to buy uniforms in a certain place
-Schrieber and Meyer, TAO Broad
way, and bring back receipts to the
dirty I.R.T. Company union dele
gate, so that he and the company
both get their graft out of it.
The PETERBOROUGH still has the IL
hour day in force and not word
is said about it.
I think it was April 2 that the
N. Y. Times printed the expendi-
lures of the receivers since they
took Office. 1t had charged up these
to the city before the city gets any
thing out of it. Conspicuous I'M
der the items is that $194,622 is
spent for the upkeep of the COM
pany union-that is, along with all
they make the men pay into it.
Why, the company keeps a standing
army of about 20 delegates of their
company union doing nothing ex-
cept secret service work for the COM
pany in order to keep out union.
The notorious strike-breaker, P.
j. Connolly, is its president, along
with P. T. Crosse, a bitter foe of
your paper and all you stand for. At
one of their fake meetings Crosse
denounced your paper for a piece
in it about the company union. You
certainly have their fake down
pretty fine.
I think that if the city objected
to paying Or allowing that $194,-
622 there would not be 20 men of
the IR.T. employees who would not
be glad to see the union broken up.
Occasionally they discharge a man
on purpose, then take him back.
Then the delegates go through the
different terminals spreading the
propaganda of having gotten so
and so back again and so try to
make us believe the brotherhood
is powerful.
The Fifth Avenue Coach Co. is
about to get valuable franchises
from the city, and that's a COM
pany that discharged II men for
joining labor organization.
We men of the I.R.T. would feel
thankful if your paper will not for
get to expose the fakery of the
IRT, company union, and their
IL hour day under the MIRA. in the
heart of New York.
Editors NOte:-ThiS is a fine re-
port. The only criticism one can
make is about the honorable men
ton given to the New York Evening
Post. This bosses paper has taken
the line of printing exposure"
stories now and then to give the
appearance of being on the side of
the workers, but when real strug-
gle takes place, as in the taxi work
ers' strike, then the paper joins
the other bosses papers against the
workers, and then the
Post becomes even a more danger
Gus enemy of the workers than the
more outspoken reactionary papers.
And every day, the Post, despite
its exposure" stories is full of the
same capitalistic propaganda as the
other capitalist sheets.