The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Copeland Pushing Bills for
Federal Control of Unions
n. Y. Senator Furthers
Fascist Laws Under
Anti-Racket Cuise

WASHINGTON, Jan. o.
Under the guise of anti-rack-
eteering legislation, Senator
Royal S. Copeland of New
York. cooperating with the Hearst
publications, is introducing bills de-
signed to further the fascist measures
of the government and control over
the trade unions.
Senator Copeland's announcement
today that he has prepared so-called
misunderstanding legislation is timed
to fit in with Hearst's campaign in
the New York Journal exposing in
stances of racketeering in New York
trade unions.
Picking out such instances of
racketeering that suits his purpose,
Hearst has made a pretense at a sem
sationaI exposure of union racketeer-
ing.
Some time ago, the ANTI acketeer-
ing Committee, led and organized by
rank and file opposition members of
the A. F. of L., began a real exposure
and fight against racketeering in or
der to drive the racketeers and strike
breaking bureaucrats from the lead
ership of the trade unions.
Why Hearst's Exposures?
Hearst, to further his policy of
pressing for more fascist control of
the trade unions, saw the opportu-
nifty of utilizing some of this material
for his own ends. Working with his
tool in the Senate, Royal S. Copeland
he engineered the exposure in the
New York Journal, while the senator
prepared the proper" legislation.
With the barrage of misunderstanding
exposes, Mr.. Hearst hopes to push
through anti-working class and anti
trade union legislation.
Without in the least going to the
roots of this racketeering and show
ing how it leads up to the highest Of
ficials of the American Federation of
Labor, the New York Journal has
been able to make use of evidence Of
graft and racketeering obtained from
union members to further it's drive
for more stringent fascist laws
against the trade unions
Points to $50 RacI5etS
Senator Copeland declared his bills
will include provisions to meet the
poultry racket, the "kick-back," dock
and shipping and other similar rack
cts.
lie declares that there. are $50 such
rackets in New York City alone. The
bill is designed to hit the trade
unions in the largest cities.
Under the pretense of fighting
against racketeering, Hearst and
Senator Copeland are taking the most
open fascist steps against the trade
unions as fighting organizations of
the workers. Leaving the bureaucracy
in these unions, who are responsible
for the racketeering and strikebreak-
inS intact, Hearst, Copeland and other
bosses hope to, through this subter-
fuge, deliver a powerful blow to the
workers organizations.
The exposure of racketeering, which
in reality exists far beyond the lin
tied and doctored manner in which
the Hearst sheet has portrayed it, was
deliberately planned by the New York
Journal not to hit racketeering. It's
aim was at this time, in the period
of the MIRA. attacks agains the
workers, to further the fascist blows
on the workers organizations and
weaken their power of struggle.
Above all, the Hearst press actually
strives to protect the real racketeers
in the highest offices of the American
Federation of Labor, and closely asso-
ciated now with the National Labor
Board, and other NR.A. strike
breaking bureaus.