The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
A.F.L. Officials Rob
CWA Workers Pay
in New Job Racket
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while the unemployed can't get work
The articles of Comrade Cannes have
shown the graft centering around the
Mellon Cathedral Of Learning" q
G. w. A. project While hungry I'M
employed union members were
charged hundreds Of dollars for Jobs
men like David W. Charles, a BANKER
under suspended sentence for steal
ing the funds Of depositors in the
Merton Title and Trust Co.. was
made assistant @. w. A. controller by
Eric H. Biddle, Pennsylvania state
G. w. A. administrator,
When Thieves Fall Out
When thieves fall out" interesting
facts come to light. Charles has now
resigned in attempting to save
Biddle's neck. 1t has ben revealed
that the Roosevelt government
through the U. S. Departennt OF
Commerce, attacking Biddle's graft
themselves are placing 1000 hand
picked c. w. A. workers as census
enumerators in Pittsburgh, selecting
them not even from the registration
lists, but dishing out jobs purely to
political favorites. Biddle said the
u. S. Government was Manipulating
them after consultation with local
political leaders"
An Allegheny County official placed
his son on the C,W.A. payroll as
craftsman at 81 per hour. Fifty
nine unemployed Oakland pitts
burghl citizens have taken III
charges OF political fayoritisn or
CW.A. jobs with Major Charlie;
Gibbs, C.W.A. employment director
They declare in their petition that
the most of the Fourth Ward C,W.A
workers were formerly on the city
payroll and are part Of the Repub-
lican Party Machine. In Brent
wood, Westmoreland County, a coun-
Gilman, John Sankey was given job
as C.W,A. foreman, in violation Of
C,W.A. regulations that officeholder'
shall not get C.W,A. jobs.
Whitewash Applied
The Roosevelt government, while
trying TO Gust Biddle and put in one
Of their own democratic grafters, has
already shown that 1t will gloss oyel
all Pittsburgh graft charges and al
low the A. F. Of L. officials to con-
tinue to rob the poverty stricken
unemployed. Already 1t is announced
that Robert KelSoe who was reported
assigned by the Roosevelt govern
ment to investigate" the graf
charges, will not go to Pittsburgh
until Jan. 30.p The Pittsburgh Sur
Telegraph says, ut appeared doubt.
full that there would be an inyestiga'
ton of complaints that the C.WA
employment program is dominated BY
politics, or OF agreements required b.
labor unions that C.W.A. workers BIS,
sign large portions Of their pay IL
the unions to pay UP delinquent
dues"
The Roosevelt government, conten
with getting in their own man II
the place of Biddle, again protect
the A. r. OF l.. officials In the rob
bling Of thousands OF dollars of G, w
A. funds from the workers. The
Roosevelt government is content Il
turn over to the A, F. of L. official
large sums of C.WA. money whicl
should go to the starving unemployed
81 Day In New York
The city OF Pittsburgh is not tn
only city where racketeering of A. T
of l.. officials on C.W.A. Jobs prevail:
In New York the Metallic Lather
Union, Local At with headquarters a
10th st and 3rd Ave, extracts from
every C.W.A. worker in the trade s
q day from the wage Of the C.W.A
worker for each day he works. TIL
delegate Of the union gets $125 O wee
wages, and these wages come out o
the pay Of the C.W-A. workers VIII
have been unemployed for month
snd in many cases years. This shake
down of the New York Metallic lath
ers is In direct violation Of the con
stitution of that union which state
that 8 member cannot be assessed
more than his dues for any on
month. The dues are $3.50 O month
The officials Of this union, however
assess the C.W.A. workers 81 per day
In Chicago similar conditions pre-
vail tt was stated by Frank Chase
executive director OF the C.w.A. o
Illinois that I'VE have found lot o
men who were placed on C.W,A. pay
rolls improperly or through politice
manipulation and at least few In
dividuals who are On several payroll
at the same time
However, here also the whitewasI
process Ia being applied and inyes
LEGATION hushed 1t has come 10 ligh
however. that Mike Carrozzo, heat
of the Street Sweepers Union "a, r
OF ID has been extracting graft from
C.W.A. workers before they can &c
iobs.
ssNc Prsbe Needed
Walter Ellison, $3.50 Calumet Ave
Chicago, went with 9 delegation o
Negro workers to the C.w.A. and re
Lief commission offices protestinl
against Ellison's dismissal from )
Civil Works Administration cleanin
job at Giles Ave. because he had re
fused TO kick in for "tte timekeeper'
carfare." He was fired after he re
fused to give money for "liquor an,
Christmas presents for the foreman.
r. j. Durham, chairman of the stat
Civil Works and Relief Administra
ton, refused to investigate this cas-
and said that mo investigation
necessary"
Protests Of the rank and file mem
bers OF the A. F. Of L. unions ar,
flooding into the C.W.A. offices il
Chicago. Pittsburgh, and other citie
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