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Essex and Norfolk SITS. Molish also
decided that he was broke.
Being on very friendly terms with
officials Of Local No. 1, he planned
10 overcome this obstacle by making
each Of the prospective walters pay
$500 for the job. He agreed to hire
. 100 walters, divided into three shifts
Of so walters each.
Tell Story In AffidavitS
According to affidayitS in the pos
session of the Daily Worker, Local
No. officials worked hand in glove
with Malich on this ''shake-down" Of
walters unemployed from one to two
years. A waiter would go to Malich
and ask for job. Malich would an
swer, the job costs $500 and that $3.50
goes to Turkel and the union Off
Cials. The waiter was told to pay the
money, get a labor card from the
union and he, Malich, would sign it.
In the affidayits the workers
swear they pawned their marriage
rings, pawned their furniture, Dor
rowed from the Morris Plan and
from friends and relatives to raise
the $500 graft bride.
Opens. on Labor Day
Malieh's Restaurant opened up
Labor Day furnished with beautiful
fixtures bought by the walters on the
Job but owned by Malieh. Six weeks
later the restaurant closed its doors,
a bankrupt.
The workers seethed with indigna-
ton at this outrageous "shake-down"
perpetrated on them. They went to
Assistant District Attorney Daley and
he told them to get more evidence.
They brought charges against Turkel,
and the corrupt executive board of
the Local threw them out. At a
tulnultous membership meeting Tur-
kel was accused not only of sharing
in the $500 'shake-down" but also of
forcing a $50 job fee on penniless
waiter, two years ago. Turkel paid
no attention to either Of the charges.
Finally Bonnie Glast, a former
machine" strong arm man whose
services lad been dispensed with in
Tie spirit Of an individual avenging
this brutal victimization Of joblesS
workers by crooked A. T. of L. Off
Gals. Shot and wounded Trkel and
Lasher. Glast was hurriedly tried
and imprisoned on a 5-year sentence.
A year hes passed since the indict-
mont Of the seven men involved in
the walters "shake-down." Court
action to prosecute the union off
Gals, members of the bosses aSso-
citation, and go-betweens, involved in
the racket has been consistently
pushed aside, while the individualist
who shot the crooked officials was
Immediately rushed to jail. This
exposes the tie-up between those
higher up and the unions, and
demonstrates that the workers can
expect nothing except from their own
organized rank and file opposition
groups to kick these racketeering A.
F. of L. officials cut of power.
Cangster Murders Gangster
Abraham Borson, former Secretary,
Treasurer OF Local 302, indicted in
another case with eight other Off
Gals on charges of extortion, beat
ing of union members, and forcing
JOB brides, will not be able to face
the indictment. This black jack
swinging A. T. of L, union head, who
served a jail sentence for white slavery
and lodged a charge of unlawful
entry, w&s murdered by q gangster,
when local union officials fell out
with the bosses association.
For years there had been no quar-
rel between the United Restaurant
Owners Association and the Deli
catessen. Restaurant, Counterman
and Cafeteria Employees Local 302 of
the A. F. of L. officials All boss
had to do to fight the Food Workers
Industrial Union was to join the As
ISOLATION. The association immedi-
ately fixed it up with the union
heads, who declared that particular
cafeteria a union shop without hay