FARLEY FOILED
FARLEY FOILED Social is is and Trade Unionist* Act Together to Break tip Incipient Racket in the Cleaning and Dyeing Industry rtOMAfi M (TIN BOX) FARLEY, former eherlff of New York County end...
...Less than s week ago "Czar" Farley went back to bis clubhouse, bis tin box and his old job of packing up bats and balls snd skipping ropes for tbe children of tbe citizens of "his" district...
...These win he noasbsned tor the aaat nemmnr, Monday lane Seth, st MM pjresv tsrot avenue art 1M p. m. and will he n*«r by...
...Farley Named C%ar / Not as counsel or attorney for any group, but as a Socialist snd a man of standing and influence with tbe organised workers, termer Judge Panken entered the picture two months ago...
...At the same time, the drivers' officials called individual strikes to get "master" cleaners to join the Sapiro* Hurwitz metropolitan association...
...First Use phtoh each ether's washing...
...that no racket can work to breed day' light, and that when Panken tamed am the light it was *wsM« to epernU as hi had planned...
...It CHAPUN SAYS: a comedian, bat af tear seeing finan-Ihe world I have decided 1 am as I as financiers are comedians...
...1-Cbamber of Commerce recently boasted, has had ¦grain 1932 than in any year since tbe war...
...The Srripp* Howard newspapers resniad na ef she ¦tot n tarn tree In the hopes ef seeing China pan* Bk rotated en Its sate...
...Farley's "caarship" lasted two weeks...
...Ike 4*U suc**W Hay crW s* mmum...
...snsVted organizer of Larry Fay's sack racket who was entrusted witii the actual work of organizing the stores Farley was brought hcte the picture esid Panken...
...sS ¦pen a lime there was a see saw...
...The agreement for the 2 par cent "emergency" fund expired April 1, and as the members of that union learned of the practices of their officials, said Panken, they revolted and elected a complete set of new officials...
...ipaty says the economic structure of this nation is KA bo, Herb...
...In the same city there was an elephant f'Tbe elephant and donkey played see-saw...
...Poor donkey...
...wss Ur-t II phaad...
...P* h*d1*igher tsm'hMw...
...indeed, bnenvs'sssHslnai Piaal bo ansa «. hetaehneh eesM save said, as Feaug Pnas berate stotne Dsane stodesls: "tost the organ hC.Jt gnu...
...TJp to **-oeotiy mud the former jurist they were aided by a situation m tbe Driver* I'niori which has same passed...
...Bjajwi of George Washington it being celtbrated this BP remembered was the fellow who led hit countrymen BP...
...Jacob Panken, summoned by sorely tried and bedeviled working people to take a hand in a difficult situation, wa* able to expose tbe real nature of the activities of what has been called a proposed 12,000,000 a year racket and by turning on the light, to break It up...
...Louis Shaffer, labor editor, suggested that tbe union cell in Panken, not as counsel or attorney, but as adviser because of his Influence with the masses of workers and bis standing in the community...
...RlnntlcB have a decided zoological stamp The Re-Wm represented by an elephant snd the Democrats mm there Is the guest for the dark horse The Deav Bjaontly mistook Owen D. Young for n dark borne, Bff the reservation...
...14W a Weak lab It la said by insider* fsnMlisy with the situation that Panken* prompt action In entering the situation snd to laying bare the feet that MM Hurwhto organization had SO purpose whatever except to collect ''assessments' was all that was seeded to break up the threat ened racket...
...There were many settlements involving drivers and Inside workers, but the tailors were left out of tbe first agreements...
...n?*a»* of reviving industry by aiding the un,mployed...
...The organizations have had various nssaes, which seem to change frequently, lately known as the Metropolitan Cleaners and Dyers' Association...
...of the small tailor snd the "master" cleaner at the same thne...
...hg remembered, won his fame by persuading folks to eat Mlk* war...
...Haw-haw...
...The other wax is to manu-¦whirs to btat protest delegations...
...The see-Erinagton...
...He's improved with time...
...because of sns close snse-ctnttoa with the Tssnanasy fnrces in Mew York and here see st was feat that with s pswerfnl Tim sassy district Irefrr at the head M aaaM he easier 1* "lassie a" individuals to jaw...
...Yea, the liquor as much aa tbe question...
...With has w assndsted one Loan Hurwitx...
...na* imposed an unpopular sales fast...
...There arc countless comer stores, where pants are pressed aad whence garments are taken to be seat to tbe "master" shops, where the actual dry cleaning is done...
...In fact, they refused Bat they had to stop...
...Chamgea Maine Often About a year and a half ago organizations began to appear of the "master" cleaners and the small tailors...
...mWt' . . • ¦jll' (William Randolph to you) is again writing rtbe papers Bilhe wants the government to stop MMd raise its money by s sales tax...
...They therefore continued striking against tbe "master" shops, snd st the' point Farley was brought in, ostensibly to Iron out differences between the workers snd their employers actually...
...In New York there are Bf ef a million garment workers who never paid any it interior decoration of their pent-houses until the Ktham out of the cabarets...
...A* 1 things...
...It isn't that Blllte minds Wk no, it's the principle of tbe thing' m Psrd Is writing piece* tor the paper*, too...
...TmrnUtrr flsrassVasnnf The Hurwitx people, continued Fan-ken, ton tbe small talkae that if they .did not jo re their organisation the * "roaster*- ebon* would ant tone -their...
...The Drivers' Union fitted Into the pic ture, said Panken, by reason of the fast that thay had officers In whom the members had no confidence, and who had an agreement with the "master" shops by which they collected 2 per cent of their gross receipts as an "emergency" fund, and for whleb they rendered no accounting...
...I-ess than three weeks sgo the former sheriff, one of the most powerful Tammany district" leaders, was appointed "czar" of the cleaning and dyeing industry to "adjust" differences between the workers and their employes—or st least, that was the story told to explain tbe meaning of that fantastic appointment...
...When that'* done B-really meant is that it's O. K for a jello* to work apt it it^ 0. A", for the boss...
...Wpt bread and feed them...
...The Hnrwtts crowd, aaad Fankar, ansv s sSBf af getting money by mtmudatioi...
...But I cause for this complaint...
...mm aee General Motors, gave hi* party another ride Km'$100,000 check) but there's talk that he may yet Hps get out and walk...
...see-saw broke In Hit elephant...
...When Farley was brought into the picture the plan was to assess each shop as a start $% per cent of its gross income, . an amount that would reach $750,000 to 1*00.000 a year...
...There are drivers of wagons who collect and deliver the garments between the corner shops and the "master" shops: there are the "inside workers'' who actually do the work of removing the soup stains from the garments, sad there are tbe retail tailors, in all of which lines there are unions...
...It wss ? They played a king time...
...Good old Chi ^Hpseksteem...
...Both Democrats and Hitting national conventions there...
...Bar en important role in'Democratic politics...
...The Bronx Retail Tailors' Union, refusing to do business with the Sapiro Hurwitz organization, found themselves threatened with Intimidation, aad sent a committee to the Jewish Daily Forward to consult with the labor department of that newspaper...
...For years there bad been chaos in tbe cleaning snd dyeing industry...
...Demand Living Wage The new officials of the drivers called strikes Involving inside workers and tailors, tbe demands being for living conditions and for agreements with their unions...
...Denied clever...
...Ban*Hard papers tsmailala that Homer and IV»o*e-¦aah ahhe, hat say that Al Smith I* duTrrent...
...Parley, In resigning Ms 11,000 s want job, said that he was sot at first aware of the purpose* of the organisation that bad hired him tor that fesUstte nags, snd that when he learned what those purposes were he voluntarily mmt...
...Henry knows that from Mhght lad Is Secretary Wilbur, who told a few bun ¦ workers in convention at Philadelphia recently that Bp helped home life by keeping people too poor to Mad other wicked places...
...aad there were plans to increase the amounts to be raised by en sdmUonal iho.OOO a month or 1040,000 a year, The total-would soon reach $2,000,000 a year, Panken said, if the racket had been per* routed to go oa, a sunt that would beva been mulcted from the general snh*J| and that would have constituted saw mors war chest for lawless etoeunto to have at their disposal...
...Haw happy ear snasry mMitmt H|/«eJ fast tke motion ha* mat been raW by me doiel mat aato sht later on hj Van eanv psjgn- ¦ The sunt two lecture* on Preparation, Technique, and Psychology af atoeeJring, will be given wy Julius Umanaky...
...h anratioo is uppermost according to political re Eaj parties...
...at tssTpT^JlmV to^la^^ BsM fan par* sen toot the pint af the nation beam Wdmgh smart the danger of • daU...
...aad ' contribute' »« per cent ef their grow uv eesae to the war chest--out af which he wss to get has thousand a wee...
...Curtt* pre-* senate, aad'he** deveJoptog a Bad esse of Isennassa...
...Henry Mew assess**t stop morning tost because be* out mat, that bey Henry...
...FARLEY FOILED Social is is and Trade Unionist* Act Together to Break tip Incipient Racket in the Cleaning and Dyeing Industry rtOMAfi M (TIN BOX) FARLEY, former eherlff of New York County end more recently "czar" of tbe cleaning and dyeing Industry of tbla city, I* out of his »5O,0OO a year job, and the people of the city are by way of getting rid of the danger of one of the meanest racketi ever planned to exploit them...
...work snd at the same thne told the and psy the "assessments" they could not get the work from tbe small shops...
...Meanwhile, the cause of bona flee Ishor organization saoong the retell toilers and other worker* kty«sr«d to neing pushed forward trs**d)y...
...h*kean ralejtoim were opposing the rrnomliiatton ¦pse-president They say he'* too old...
...It was prompt Socialist action In exposing the real meaning of the Farley "ezarshlp" that did the trick, according to well-informed inaiders...
...That's what ¦It knows what he wants...
...Panken says, to aid Is Intimidating employers and little shops to join the Hur-wltx organization It was at that point that Panken entered tbe picture...
...It was Al Smith who sponsored ham) Mayor la lt?5 aad Franklin D. atooaeveft for Csv-m...
...It's loud sound,— the kind that's made nxnething hollow...
...there's Mk'brown derby, Jimmy Walker with his stlk topper, and Be* kit dunce cap...
...The mas back of the organization is the sense Aaron Sapiro who was enoe known for hie work ha organizing farmers' cooperatives, later for hie 11,000,000 libel suit against Henry Ford, and more recently for his close association with Mayor Walker...
...Between the corner store, to which the honest burgher delivers bis pants for their monthly or weekly pressing, and the "master" shop there is sa intricate organization...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 35
