The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
Walters Made to Pay $50.
To $500 for Jobs by AFL
Racketeering Leadership

ling single union member working
there. Any further action by the
| FWIU. was broken by the use of a
blanket injunction issued against the
AInalgamated Food Workers Union
in 1929 and used against the Indus
trial.
Quarrel over SpOifs
About three months ago this ire
nlendously lucrative racket at the ex-
pense of workers in these cafeterias,
was disturbed by a quarrel over the
division Of funds. Rumors in the
trade are that Borson took the great
est part Of the extortion money after
the pickets were removed from the
Kellogg Cafeteria at 154 West 49th
Street, and the cafeteria continued as
open shop.
AS result Of the break with the
bosses, the officials of Local 302 threw
four simultaneous picket lines around
restaurants owned by members Of the
bosses association, including the Bir-
mingham at Z West 44t11 Street owned
by Moses Levine, manager of the as
ISOLATION, and the And Street Safe
terra. This was something unheard
of, as membership in the association
had previously nipple automatically,
that Local 800 leaders would stay
away.
The association made no attempt
at an injunction against the Local.
BorSon, Sam Pincus, Jim Green, Ep-
stein, Johnnie Williams and other
gangsters in the union had far to
much on the bosses for them to risk
it.
Poses as d. Of J. Agent
What happened instead was that
Mr.. King, owner Of the And Street
cafeteria engaged Mr.. Folsom, who
represented himself a Department of
Justice agent, assigned to undercover
work in union racketeering. King
took Folsom to Calvin w. Klein, Sec
rotary of the bosses association and
received his o. K. on Folsom. He
then paid this Department of JUS
tice agent, 500 in cash and gave him
an additional check for the same
amount.
No effort was made by King to
check up on this Department of
Justice agent despite the fact that
King has another restaurant at $40
Lexington Ave-, and the Depart
ment of Justice is located In this
very same building.
On Armistice Day, Folsom together
with other two men, stopped his auto
mobile near the picket line outside
the 42nd Street Cafeteria, introduced
himself to George Johnson, one Of
the picketS and told him to come
along and show him the residence of
Irving Epstein, former Houston Street
crap-shooter, official of the union,
and now living on Riverside Drive.
Epstein was not home. They drove
to Borson's home. On the pretext
Of identifying a suspect, Borson was
forced into the car, taken to West
chester County and murdered by the
man posing as Department of Jus
tice agent. 1t was revealed later that
all three were Burns Detective Agency
men who usually specialize in ter
roizing and numbering workers.
Since the murder, Local 302 under
q new facKeCeeflng leadership, now
declare cafeteria unionized after a
satisfactory agreement with the boss
is reached. and one or two union men
are placed IN the cafeteria.
Tomorrow's article will further ex-
pose the rackets in the International
Of Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria
Workers. Future installments will
deal With the corruption and murder
tactics in A. F. of l.. locals such as,
Sheet, Metal Painters, Beauticians
and Local Of the Electricians
Unions and additional "kick-back"
revelations. These will be explained
in the habit of Roosevelt's procedure
to fascize the unions.