The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1925, Page 12

——————$— TT Pity the Poor Workers HE manufacturers and bankers have grown exceedingly kind to the men and women workers of Amer- ica, and especially to their children, many of whom are child workers in the country’s industries. The govern- ment and the employers and financi- ers have established countless seem- ingly philanthropic associations, de- partments, bureaus, clubs, councils and other organizations whose an- nounced purpose is to care for the health, morals, education and _train- ing of the workers and their children. Liberal clubs and societies have done their bit by supporting many of these employers’ associations, A Good Investment. The bosses have learned that the millions of tons of propaganda their organizations spread is a good invest- ment to increase the production of their employes, and consequently their profits. So we have the United States Steel corporation “investing” in safety devices; the boys’ republic “investing” in the child. We have investments in health week, safety week, clean up week, education week, child health week, school week and parents’ week, We have the manufacturers invest- ing in gardens, shower baths, recrea- tion rooms, safety guards, physical ex- aminations, insurance, profit sharing plans, parks and athletic fields. Safeguarding Profits. And the canny manufacturers know that their investments are coming back to them manifold. The United States Steel corporation has declared an extra large dividend this year (in which President Coolidge, as a stock- holder, shared), in spite of the in- vestment in a few safety guards, and the distribution of tons of safety prop- aganda. The National Cash Register com- pany of Dayton, Ohio, is still coining millions of dollars a year net pvofit, in spite of the investment in a few acres of garden land and’ parks for their employes. The Curtis Publish- ing company-of Philadelphia still pays big profits, despite investment in re- creation rooms for the employes. The owners of the Pullman Palace Car company of Chicago are still able to roll in wealth produced by the Pull- man workers, even tho the Pullman workers are allowed to play baseball in the “Pullman Park.” The Western Electric company made ten million dollars net profit last year despite the hospital maintained for the employes. To Increase Production. The hard boiled employers refuse to invest a single dollar in workers’ health or anything else, unless they get their dollar back with a high in- terest. The manufacturers invest in workers’ lives in order to increase production, so that the same worker will produce more wealth for them at the same wage. If some naive worker does not be- lieve this let him look it page 13 of the April 25 issue of the Manufactur- ers’ News, published by the Manufac- turers Association “for the manufac- turers’ officials.” The title of the article on page 13 is, “Protecting the Workers’ Health—A POLICY WHICH INCREASES PRODUCTIVE POWw- ER. ” “Get 'Em Back to Job.” In this article we learn that a cer- tain National Industrial Conference Board, promoted by the factory own- ers, has made a survey of “health ser- vice in industry.” We learn that “In- dustry values the health of its work- ers.” And we learn why! “Employ- ers are concerned over the well being of their employes,” says the article. “Much possible damage to health and THE PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY OF BOTH THE INDIVIDUAL WORKER HIMSELF AND THE PRODUCTIVE POWER OF THE NATION AT LARGE IS OBVIATED BY PHYSI- CAL EXAMINATIONS.” The large corporations even supply visiting nurses to sick workers, we learn, and care is taken of the in- jured employes, not to benefit the working class, but, to quote the ar- ticle again, “With a view to cutting short the period of illness and return- ing the worker to his job as soon as possible.” After reading this article, if the worker still thinks that the employers are interested in the welfare of the working class, or that the numerous bosses’ organizations raise the stand- ard of living of the working class, let him recall the following facts. Let the worker recall that the stéel corporation, with its investment in workers’ safety, pays wages of only 44 cents an hour; that the steel trust will not tolerate a union, operating a thoro and complete spy system to discover and fire en:proyes who are advocating a union whereby the work- ers may raise the standard of living conditions. Let his recall that the Pullman com- pany, notwithstanding its athletic park, has recently increased the hours of labor and lowered the wages; that the Western Electric company, paying a wage of 30 cents an hour and in some cases lower, has, within the last six months thrown 20,000 workers on the street, jobless, and in many cases, hired back the same workers at shorter pay. Backbone of Open Shop. Another point must not be forgot- ten, these corporations which are in the forefront*of the “employes’ wel- fare” movement, are the backbone of the open shop in this country. The Curtis. Publishing company of Phila- delphia, which boasts of its modern buildings and recreation rooms, is the record union smasher—together with the Baldwin locomotive works—in Philadelphia. The publishers of the Saturday Evening Post, preaching the blessings of the profit system, hire young girls at $15 a week to do the bulk of their work, and ruthlessly break efforts of the workers to organ- ize for a living wage. And so it is with all the large corporations which prate about workers’ welfare. Communists for Workers. There IS an organization in Amer- ica which is interested in the welfare of the working class, and there is an organization which is promoting the welfare of the working class youth of this country. These are the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers (Communist) Geague. strangely enough the employers rant about workers’ welfare seem to be extremely jealous of these two or ganizations. The reaction of the employers to |. the Communist campaigns in the in- terests of the workers reveals the hypocrisy, and the true purpose of the bosses’ workers’ welfare bunk, Plutes for Child Labor. While the Workers Party and the Young Workers League were waging a strenuous campaign not only for the passage of the amendment to em- power congress to prohibit child la- bor, but for the governmental main- tenance of the working class children of school age as well, John Glenn, secretary of the manufacturers’ asso- ciation, and editor of the Manufactur- ers’ News which emits workers’ wel- fare bunk, was stumping the country and spending millions of dollars to defeat the child labor amendment and keep the child slaves toiling in Amer- ica’s factories, And this same asso’ ciation was at the same time spread- ing propaganda against the Commun- ists because they were fighting to overthrow the profit system and for the seizure of power by the working class, after which there will be no child labor. The bosses like associations for children when these associations can pass laws, as in Delaware, forcing the teacher to read five verses of the bible daily in the public schools, and dope the minds of the children about a heavenly life after death while their parents are starving at home. What Bosses Like. They like educational associations when they can pass laws, as in Ten- nessee, prohibiting the teaching of the truths of science in the public schools, sending teachers to jail when they tell the children of Darwin and evolution. They like associations like the In- ternational Council of Women, now meeting in Washington, which can go into ecstacies against the spanking of children by parents, but cannot raise a finger to force the government to abolish child labor, They like other. “liberal” organizations, dare not pro- test against the silence of Coolidge, and his bosses’ government, at the needs of the workers. ‘The “liberal” welfare organizations, taking their cue from the Wall Street government and the manufacturers’ welfare organizations, meet as did the Women Voters’ League in Richmond a few days ago, to discuss a Utopian marriage law, and end up by indors- ing Coolidge’s “arms conference” plan to further gouge plunder from the workers of Europe. Fight Against “Open Shop.” The Workers Party leads the work- ers in their fight against the open shop, against wage cuts, against long hours, against the speed-up system, against the militarization of the pub- lic school system. 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