The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16

voted for union organization "
had gone into his own pocket.
1t was learned that Barrys O
local.. the, cigar makers union
Manchester with Barry's sanctio
had not paid its per capita tax /
the Federation for the past si1
years.
The convention delegates Learned
that the Federation, which boasts OF
$4,000. workers, now has. a treasury
of only, SITS During the last. two
years, they were blandly informed
that Barry and his machine" had
spent nearly $4,000 of funds raised
specifically for a membership drive.
This special fund, Barry said, was
used up for Legislative duties"
Barry got more than $500 in a four
months period alone, in addition to
expenses, for appearances. before the
State Legislatures committees
during the 1928 winters, it. was
learned.
Delegate Dan McBain of the Con-
cord Granite Cutters Union. hit the
highlight of the convention when
he pointed out that the makeup
OF the executive councir' was OF
labor takers" He recalled that the
council which, with Barry, steam
rolled themselves back into office
Tor another year, included Mavor
Daniel Reindal of Berlin, who had
been kicked out of his own labor
organization, the Coos COUNT
workers Club; Carl Matthews o
Newport, expelled from the Com
munlst Party fer betraying labor:
Mrs. Alice M. Goland, ghost" head
OF a non-existent Keene textile
union; Damon G.. Randlett, Con-
cord Typographical. Union president,
who is an official of the Democratic
Party and B. H. CroWell of Ports
mouth, Federation Secretary, who.
brazenly, and in the open, defends
the boss-class.
Barry, under questioning from the
convention floor, admitted that the
Federation would be bankrupt if
1t lived up to it's constitution" He
said that many of the so affiliated
locals had not been paying their per
capita tax in recent years. Barry
confessed that while there are ia
a, F, of L. locals in the state. "only
about seven of them" would have
been eligible to send DELEGATES to
the convention, if. he had not made
per capita tax concessions to induce
them to remain under his leader
shipi
Can't Afford Organization
Barry insisted, in fact, that the
Federation is SO morally and finan.
cially weak that it could not. "af
lord" to launch drive for new or
ganlzation work in the state. He
insisted that the convention vote
down demand of the Manchester
box makers local for such a cam
paign. He explained that it. would
use up needed money"
The reactionary Barry. who has
long been in disrepute. among the
majority of New Hampshire work.
ers, even rode roughshod over OBJ
position to endorsing state police
system. He smugly turned aside a
rank and file protest with the as
sertlon; Il would rather see New
Hampshire workers face we'll organ
lzed state constabulary forces than
bunch of inexperienced, boys (Na-
tlonal Guardsmen) wit h loaded
rifles in their nervous hands"
Joseph Lavallee OF Manchester, a
carpenter union official, and a Barry
crony, pushed through a resolution
to establish a bureau like the U. S.
Secret Service" against mon union
and Communist ACTIVITIES
A resolution against the Boston
and Maine railroad management for
continuing to recognize a. company
union, after the 1900 shop workers
had voted for A. F, of L. unions, wa
also killed by the Barry .machin
B. H, Crowell of Portsmouth. Fec
Grafton secretary and Barry bench
man, led the double-cross against
the shop workers when he. declared:
II don't think. that this attack is
warranted. I have found the rail-
road management. to be fair in deal
ings with me for the workers"
Even a free-T Tom Mooney resolu-
ton was killed by the Barry regime.
Communist Accepts Challenge
+ Barry and his machine" refused
to permit the convention to- con-
denim the "red-baiting campaign of
William Green of the A. F. of L.,
which calls for expulsion of known
Communists from A. F. of L. aflli-
ates. But they backed water quickly
when delegate took the convention
floor and announced himself as a
Communist, and told the forty dele
gates how and why he truly stood
for trades unionism, as compared
with labor fakers' and boss kissing
A. r. of L. reactionary leaders.
The Communist delegate, Dan
McBsin, secretary of the Concord
Granite Cutters Union, represented
one of the strongest locals in thu
state.
McBain, by his militancy and
arguments, pushed through the
only worthwhile action taken at
the convention, He won passage
of demand for changes in the
state labor compensation laws to
include provisions for benefits to
occupational diseases victims. He
also pushed through resolution
condemnine Hitler and fascism.
The Barry reactionaries refused.
however, to accede to McBain's de-
mand that the convention call for
the release of Ernst Thaslmann and