The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Racketeering eva and AL Officials
Rob Pay Envelopes Of c. ". A. Men.
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up because he had refused TO pay
the officials OF the a. F. Of L. union,
the Building Service Employees, 81
a week fee for IS weeks. Those who
do not join this A. F. Of L. union
and pay up the SIS fee are fired,
transferred to worse jobs. and at
tackled by gangSters. This union
defends its racketeering activities
on the grounds that it is uphold
ing the government against "radi-
cal attacks of C.W.A. workers.
Fat Job for Politicians
There is now going on an Sin
vestigation" by the C.WA. board of
Cleveland (again the Roosevelt re-
giTne is investigating ITSELF. In Cleve-
land the kick-back system is in force
on C.WA. work Democratic ward
politicians of Cleveland give their
followers jobs and in return charge
the C.W.A. workers so cents a week
for the right to hold the jobs.
A former Democratic city official
in Cleveland is getting work on c.
w. A. projects for truck owners and
then collecting part of their income.
On one C.W.A. job in Cleveland, sew
eral hundred Republicans reported
for work every day, and then turned
around and went home, drawing fun
pay. Out Of 105,515 registered job
less in Cleveland, only $4,000 are at
work.
The corruption at the expense Of
C.W.A. workers perhaps reaches its
height in the city of Los Angeles.
A special committee investigating
C.W.A. graft charges, because of an
inner political fight, admits part of
the truth. The official report of this
committee states, "Our initial in
vestigation of charges of mis:nanage-
ment, inefficiency, waste and poll
ticaI favoritisin in passing out Of G.
w. A. jobs indicates that a majority
of the complaints are based on facts"
Dig for Bodies Buried so Feet
What is the effect on the C.W.A.
workers Of Los Angeles and vicinity
Of this corrupt mess. During the
recent West Coast flood interesting
facts came to light.
While workers homes we're left I'M
attended and in danger OF immediate
destruction, C.W.A. workers were sent
digging for concrete monuments in
Verdugo, Wash. While mud made
roads impossible, Is feet away (from
Riverside Drive) C.W.A. workmen
were forced to dig dirt around a
stone wall at Elysian Park, to make
the park look better.
In the Monrose Glendale area, men
with hand shovels floundered in the
mud trying to dig out bodies buried
80 feet deep.
The report Of corruption In Los
Angeles revealed that hundreds of
C,W.A. workers were assigned jobs
without being equipped with any
tools and thus were forced to stand
idle for weeks.
Other facts uncovered in the Los
Angeles graft scandal were: u Ex-
cessiVe fees were paid to get help
through private exchanges. q Brides
were extracted from C.W.A. workmen
by foremerl. 81 Political favoritism
was shown in giving out C.W.A. jobs.
~ Politics ruled in the purchase of
supplies These are the charges
which the Investigators found to be
true.
D. of J. HarasSed Workers
In Los Angeles the Investigation"
was pursued because the Roosevelt
machine was building its political
fences. In Bloomington, Indiana
last month, Department Of Justice
agents were sent in by the Rooyeyelt
government, after similar charges by
workers of graft and corruption in
the C.W.A. These Roosevelt detec-