The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1925, Page 3

| N.Y. PRESSMEN ARE STIRRED BY BERRY SCABBERY ' Against Rotten Methods Used in Chicago NEW YORK, Aug. 26-—An under current of protest that promises to break out into a veritable torrent of destruction of the entire Berry ma- ohine is kept down with difficulty among the pressmen in this city. Everywhere the members of the pressmen’s union bite their lips in an endeavor to hold back their expres- sions of disgust and anger at the tac- ties used in the Chicago strike at the Cuneo plant. “Why don’t you speak out and let the world know that you stand for solidarity and decent tactics in the Chicago struggle?” asked the DAILY WORKER reporter. Fear Reign of Terror. “Hell! Don’t you know what hap pened to 225 of our members about ten months ago when we demanded our rights in the Hearst plants? Old man Berry just threw us out of the union without reason or ceremony. The first man that would open his mouth today about the Chicago trea- son would lose his head long before sunrise tomorrow morning.” This is the universal sentiment ‘among the pressmen thruout the 6n- tire city of Greater New York. Talk to any pressman you meet and it is the same story. They are sick of Berry and Berryism. He is looked upon as the most unscrupulous tyrant that has infested a working class or- ganization. “But are you going to stand for all this impudence and czarism?” asked the reporter, “Stand for it?” came the abrupt re ply. “Just wait a bit. There is a con- vention coming and I guess we will have something to say then. But now? Don't open your head about it.” “Are you fellows afraid of your pres- ident? Can't you say-what you please to him and about him?” Only Loves the Dues. “You don’t know ‘Major’ George W. Berry. He has no more use for the rank and file than the tiger has use for a mouse. Only as we pay dues does he care for us. We give him a big percentage from New York of the half million dollars collected every year in dues from the pressmen in| America,.and he -uses it ‘to hire strike- breakers and slavish henchmen to beat us down when we protest, and keep his machine powerful and well greased.” “Do youdeel that the sentiment you express is quite general thruout the membership in New York?” “I can safely say that over 95 per cent feel as I do,” was the reply. “We &re pretty sick of our tyrant. He has | to his credit the most complete series of intrigues and betrayals that I know of in the labor movement in this coun- try. He is more shrewd than Lewis By N. D, MILLIKEN, Editor industrialist. NEW YORK.—Everywhere ¢ afflicted with traitorous and se he labor movement has been sorely If-seeking leaders, but the known criminal in office is peculiar to America. *e Berry is probably the lowest generated. He comes by it naturally. San Francisco’s barbary coast. of this type. And he has not de- He is said to be a product of Certain it is that he was a strike- breaker when he was given a card in the International Printing Pressmen’s and Assistants’ Union in St. Louis in 1902. So he brought to his office as the stoolpigeon and scab herder. . He was taken from a struck shop head of the union the attributes of And by the use of the tactics of the thug he has reduced what is left of the organization to an incredible degree of subserviency. His elimination, of course, is pressmen, and it is a problem of magnitude. first importance to the organized as a whole. Berry is necessarily opposed thru amalgamation, but it may seem strange that he was able to! dominate abortive conferences of international officials held to dis-! cuss the proposition a couple of years ago. shop wonders how officials of th have any truck with Berry and h the most vital problem facing the It is likewise of the movement in the printing industry to a united front in the industry In fact the man in the e other printing trade unions can is ilk. of the miners and more unscrupulous than the old Russian czar.” Follow the DAILY WORKER. “Have you read the articles that have appeared in the DAILY WORK- ER during the last few weeks about Berry, and what would you say as to their correctness?” “Many of us have followed with keen interest every line written about Berry in the DAILY WORKER and every word of what has been printed is true. But you have much more to learn about our little tyrant. As soon @ we have finished our plans and secured ourselves against his attacks I will let you know a lot that I cannot give now, You can say that the press- men in New York are heart and soul with the strikers in Chicago and with the DAILY WORKER to throw the traitors out of our leadership.” Floods Ravage in Central Japan; Tokio One-Third Submerged LONDON, Aug. 26.—Central Japan is again being ravaged by big floods due to the heavy rainfall, excessive in the orient this year, even for the rainy season now at its height. One-third of Tokio is submerged with some loss of life, and property losses which will run into millions of yen. The rivers and canals which cut up the city proved wholly inadequate to carry off the heavy floods of water. Thousands of the population have had to seek places of safety on higher ground on the outskirts of the city. Build the DAILY WORKER. | Berry Boils | Matt ‘iy The .members or tne 1... of Be ey wl Ni Minit i A. U. are uecermined to get rid rryism. ’ Name: RUSSIA TODAY 8 Months Subscription to THE DAILY WORKER 3 (6 Months in Chicago). 4.50 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Enclosed $. MY FLIGHT FROM SIBERIA.......0000 and the WORKER foF ws. Months to: Street: sareogessesseesee a te eal Be On Guard! Defend the first workers’ government with FACTS: Gathered from the official report of the British trade union delegation to Soviet Russia—RUSSIA TODAY.... And those facts you wil in THE DAILY WORKER every day. 1.25 $5.75 Both for $9.00 THE DAILY WORKER MY FLIGHT FROM SIBERIA Chicago, Ill. for RUSSIA TODAY.. 1 find about Russia By Leon Trotsky ... Months Subscription to THE DAILY WORKER «$100 Both for §2.50 $3.00 in Chicago DAILY SUBSCRIBE! A nme se THE DAILY WORKE R Tia A? aa Page Three ‘BERRY,FOUND GUILTY ROBBING UNION TREASURY Ordered to Pay Back| Money to International | (Continued from page 1) tendnace and transcript of testimony furnished by A. C, Dore, heretofore ap-| {pointed by the court as official sten-| jographer, and all charges for attend-| {ance and the transcript furnished by | |Clarence Walker, be taxed as costs in| |this case, and that said International | Union, have and is hereby decreed to have a lien on all property, real, per-| sonal and mixed, of Clinchfield Hydro-| Electric Power company, a Tennessee corporation, for the amount herein- above fixed and for said costs of suit, as security for the payment of said judgment. “That the capital stock of the Clinchfield Hydro-Electric Power com- pany is the property of and owned by George L. Berry, Myra May Orr, and Elizabeth M. Gehres, and is not the| property of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union of | North America.” Berry Opposed to Radicalism. The decision was one hundred per cent against Berry. The judge's decis- ion was delivered orally and in con- cluding he made the following inter- esting remarks: “He fights like hell and has fought like hell in this case to keep the truth from being known. He has that quality. On the other side I am struck with the idea that he is opposed to radicalism, believes in standing by contracts and would have peace in the industrial world.” The courtycommented very frankly on Berry’s conduct, and intimated his amazement that»the union members would tolerate:such a man in the presi- dency. It was acknowledged, how- \ever that only drastic efforts would enable the membership to pry Berry jand from the various | that he hadvestablished thru the use jof union funds. “Majah” Takes Offensive. After Chicago’ Printing Pressmen’s Union No, 3 decided to institute legal Proceedings against’Berry, the “ma- jah” took theoffensive. “In June, 1919, he hired Jiilius Rosehhtim, at a yer week to act’ as lo- es in Chicago and sive his time and service exclusively i the Internafional Union as organ- izer. | Rosenheim set out to hire assistant organizers at the rate of $100.00 per week. One of those organizers was not connected with the I. P. P. and A. U. either nationally or locally. | Thieves sometimes fall out and later on Rosenheim brot suit against Berry for some of his. wages and expenses. | | At the first regular meeting of | Printing Pressmen’s Union No. 3, held in 1920, Berry's tools in Chicago noti- fied the “majah” and suggested that he come to Chicago to stage a rival meeting. Wanted to jure Foes. The pressmen were to hear the truth about the fight against Berry and the latter wanted to prevent this at all co: Berry came to Chicago and stayed several days before going to Seattle. He had his headquarters in Room 1710 of the Morrison Hotel and on Sunday, December 28, 1919, he is reported to have told his con- feres that he decided to eliminate Lo- |cal $ from union affairs in Chicago, several members of No. 3 whose names he mentioned and that he wanted those men injured or inca- | Pacitated so that they could take no more part in the litigation. Those present refused to promise Berry that they would inflict physical injury on the officers and active mem- bers of No. 3, but they did promise him in return for some compensation, to secure a certain number of men, | who were neither pressmen nor un-| jon men in general to attend the| forthcoming meeting of the Chicago! {Printing Pressmen No. 3 and take it F | out of the hands of the legitimate of- ficers. ‘The plan was to remove the officers from power and. pass a resolution calling off the» litigation against | Berry, Each man was to be given a fake membership card and five dol- lars for the night's work, Fake Cards Printed. The faked membership cards were | S| Printed at the Pressmen’s Homo, in Tennessee and the stock cut of which the cards were made was brot to the Home by Rosenheim, The printing 3 \of the fake cards was gone on New |Year’s eve, 1919. The job was so |Well done that when they were pre- |sented at the door of the Cheago | Pressinen's meeting the door keeprs jdid not detect the difference, A |Knoxville, Tennessee, label was .used on the cards and mutilated. Rosenheim, after he fell out with Berry, admittod that the label w. done by another one of Berry's too! It was done however in the presence of Joseph ©. Orr,, secretary-treasurer of the Internati Union. Even the loose from ‘the international coffers | institutions | | walkout here in Chicago is part of} THE DEAD MARCH Boys, We'Le HAVE BEFORE WE CAN Fink ARMY s LOCKED OUT CUNEO PRESSMEN PICTURE SINS OF GEORGE L. BERRY The three anti-Berry cartoons on this page were drawn by employes of the Cuneo plant, now locked out. |from the Service Record of the I. P. P. and A. U. and wrote them on the fake cards. Three hundred cards three hundred thugs who were hired rived at their destination. them quarrelled on their way to the hall, and lost interest in the meeting, | while others were so boisterous at the |door of the meeting place that they were refused admission. The Plot Failed. Eight hundred bonafide members were present and everything went along according to the plans. of the local leaders and Berry’s thugs were. not able to create any disturbance, After the decision of Judge Coch- rane was recorded the union decided. to make peacé with Berry on condi- tion that he bring his scabbery to an end. But no sooner had this agree- ment been entered into than the “ma- jah” laid his plans to take the char- ter away from No. 3 and kick it out of the International Union. ‘The out: lines of this plot have already been told ‘mit is not necessary to go into detail. Suffice it to say, that the Cuneo) that plan. What Berry is doing is co- operating with the employers in en- forcing open shop conditions on the} pressmen. When they refuse to| stand for this he excommunicates | them and sends scabs to take their: places, Hitherto he tried to use the feeders’ organization against the pressmen but the recent step taken towards amalgamation by the two} unions has helped to drive a nail in Berry's political coffin. dak bk. The next concluding article will| give a summary of the case against Berry and a few suggestions as to! how the pressmen should go about) the job of getting rid of this “old man} of the s Truck Loaded with Ashes Strikes Car; 20 Persons Hurt NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—Twenty per- sons were injured today when a Third avenue street car was struck by a four-ton steel truck of the street clean- ing department. The truck, loaded with ashes, knocked the car off the tracks, , Witnesses said the truck was mov- ing rapidly when ft hit the car. It siruck the trolley just back of the front platform, Passengers were thrown from their seats. Women screamed. Calls were sent in for police and reserves were rushed quickly to the scene. The accident happened near a pub- lic market and large crowds surround ed the smashed car. were used in the conspiragy. Of the| to break up the meeting only 100 ar-| Some: of | |on the machines while the Ward con- STILL ON; BERRY SUPPLIES SCABS Faker Suspected Taking Money from Rivals How long the Cuneo Printing Com- | pany will be able to stand the losses sustained since it saw its pressmen and feeders walking out when an open | shop system was installed, is a ques-| tion that is causing serious concern to the management. The Cuneo plant is practically own- jed by the great Sears, Roebuck mail order house, of which the father of “Dickie” Loeb, one of the notorious murderers of the Franks boy, was con- nected in the capacity of vice-presi- dent. Cuneo is a brother-in-law of State’s Attorney Crowe and it was whispered about town that this re- lationship did not work to the disad- vantage of the Sears, Roebuck mag- nate when his son was in the toils of the law. Getting it Both Ways. The chief competitor of the Sears, -Roebuck company is Montgomery Ward. There is an ugly rumor afloat | that Berry is manipulating affairs in| the Sears, Roebuck concern, so that} industrial troubles will render it in-} capable of competing with the rival | concern, Already, the Sears, Roebuck catalogues scheduled to be out for’ Sep- tember, are partially ruined. Thou- sands of dollars worth of plates are getting wrecked every day and all the employes in the plant, from copy holders to messengers are jn sym- pathy with the locked out pressmen and feeders. The scabs that Berry is sending in must be excluded from the list of sympathizers. Fooling Everybody. Some pressmen suspect that Berry and his pals are getting money from | the Cuneo bosses and also from Mont- | gomery Ward and Company. The for- mer is suspected of paying for the | introduction of the decrease in men cern is believed to be paying for the inconvenience caused to its rival con- cern. The members of the union are suffering. It should be noted that we are only giving the impressions of | members of No. 3 who know Berry. New York pressmen are following the Cuneo walkout very close and hope victory will be achieved by the pressmen, Bad Weather Hits Pole Expedition, To SMASH THIS WALL ADVANCE ANOTHER STEP) ‘stahagylrpesindvnDoe Tom CONKLIN 15 in. THis CRovw, Ur J Sy Boys. 7H WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—The flag- ship Bowdoin and the airplane carrier | Peary of the Macmillan arctic exped!- tion are at anchor today at Booth| Sound, Greenland, because of bad weather, said a dispatch to the navy department. 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