The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1928, Page 4

ct Page Four THE DAILY WORK Xk, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1928 /AO00 WORKERS, UNORGANIZED, IN. HAWTHORNE UNIT ystem, | Speed-up, Gang S Wage Cheating, Reign , (By a Worker Correspondent.) CICERO, Ill. American Teler Telegraph Co., of which the Western Elect a manufacturing division, larges d claim “democr industrial ing over The and ic Company is y the is certain be the mc rganization in the world, h 400,000 stockholders and ploye stockholders than company in the world em- other more any Exploitation, Speed-up, t take long for the out the facts about} this industrial “democracy” at the American Tel. and Hawthorne plant. The most intensified exploita tion, the ever-inc ng speed-up sys: tem and low wages is the order the: The comp is spending a lot of money to fool the work to keep them content, docile, Mind and ignor- ant of the fact that they’are inten-| sively exploited. The company has | factory and corporation newspaper: filled with the usual bunk, which are given free to workers. It has old-age | pension homes, employe stock pur- chase plans, free vacations and many other attractions which sound good but are in reality sheer hypocrisy. Pensions—But You Never Get Them. Under old age pension plan, the company perfectly safe. Long hours of hard daily grind and unheal- thy working conditions wear out the workers fast. They have become use- less for the company long before they for old age pension. When a worker gets hurt he is first bawled out by half a dozen bosses then sent to the plant hospital where the company butchers patch him up and send him right back to the fac- even if he has to crawl to get Tf he can’t do his work other workers have to make it up under the rotten gang piece-work system which the bosses are trying to install all over the plant. Gang System. Under this em, the worker never knows what the production of the gang is and has no right to in- quire. As changes and improvements are made, their cost is deducted from the gang workers’ wages. But when these improve production the rates are cut. As an example of increasing speed- up, a few years ago it took two eight hours to assemble a case of loading requires about 1,200 But it worker to is are eligible splices. t is done in three and one half Improved machinery is rapidly re- placing the workers. Last year hun- dreds of coil winding machines, oper- ated by men, were replaced by ma- chines that work twice as fast and ara operated by girls who work at lower wages. The company has a clever scheme for reducing the wages of workers either by laying them off during slack | periods and hiring them back at lower wages, or by transferring them from one department to another. Each department has its own min- imum and maximum wage scale. Workers remaining in one department for a number of years, if they meas- vre up to all the bo requiremen nts r them work hard under the fa hope of improv their conditions | After a number of years, the work- asted his energy, ambition and health ther laid off or trans- ferred to other departments and start- ed at hottom wages again. All the 28,000 workers at the Haw- thorne plant, Chicago, are unorgan- | ments lead to increased | 2 of wage increases | Police Stations Open to Crush Unemployed| (By a Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., (By Mail) i —A big police stir is on in Philadel- phia. All station houses have been re- opened that were closed by General Butler, the Quaker City roughneck, who is at present in command of the marines in China, killing our Chin- ese fellow workers. | The opening of these station houses is another indication of the sort of lief Mayor Mackey will give the adelphia un His graft: | ing superiors believe that, when a hurry call the police can thus more quickly respond and club the workers into sub, All the police in E used to further ation politics and if a worker thin and dares to express his the police make a thorough job of him with their ever- ready clubs. A more progressive move would be miade by M Mackey if oyed. made, is ction, ly phia are org the idle of Philadelphia were re-opened to give and employ- ment to the s ring worker —PHILADELPHIA WORKER. DS ee | |Murderer of Mexican Peons and Workers Dies (By «. Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES, (By Mail)—This leity has been and still is a heaven {for Mexican reactionari who suc- | ceed in escaping the firing squads be- low the Rio Grande. ; One of the most prominent of these jexploiters and butchers of Mexican | peons and Indians, General Emilio | Kosterlitzky, departed for parts un- |known yesterday, to “re-enlist” with |the late Porfirio Diaz, who died in |exile a number of years ago after |having sold the valuable resources of j his country to foreign corporations |and individuals. Among the recipients |of his favors being the Standard Oil |Co.; Wm, R. Hearst, dealer in forged | Mexican documents; Edward L. Do- heny, the oily participant in the Tea- |pot Dome scandal and the late Gen- eral Otis, the notorious labor-bai‘or. publisher of the Los Angeles ’ }and betrayer of the Filipinos fight- jing for their independence from the {tyranny of pope-ruled Spain. The |800,000 acres in lower California, (Mexico), owned by the Times, has caused much controversy in connec- |tion with the Colorado Dam question. The Times is fighting for its own in- | terests as well as for the power | trust. General Kosterlitzky was a fighter all right, but against the peons in favor of reaction. He was head of a ragged Mexican army made up of starvation victims, Shanghaied work- ers, victs, cut-throa ete. The ex-subject of the Tsar served well the interests supporting General Por- firio Diaz, an iron-fisted on earth for 30 long years. Robbed of their lands, hundreds of Yaqui Indians were forced to join the} army and fight th brothers, or were sent into slavery in the deadly Yucatan mines Kosterlitzky was the son of a Tsar- ist naval officer, educated in a Ger- man military academy, deserted his jship in Venezuela and became the | butcher-in-chief of Mexican workers jand peons instead of the executioner of Russian Communists. —L. P. RINDAL. ee | * |Montana Woman Wants More Organization News (By a Worker Correspondent.) RAYMOND, Montana, (B I found many interesting articles} in the March 3rd iss e DAILY | WORKER on the o on of wo-} men. If you can continue the articles it will be a great move for our up- | lift. ‘ —wW. | KILL WATER POWER BILL. | ALBANY, N. Y., Mar. 13—By a hell-maker | * ized and anyone who mentions the!yote of 27 to 24, the senate today de- unions will be given the gate. These|feated Governor Smith’s bill propos- are but a few examples of the indus- \ing the creation of a commission to trial “democracy” in the telephone plan for state development of water industry. —E. power, * Woman Worker * * GENERAL STRIKE OF NEW ENGLAND TEXTILES WANTED Hit at Heart of Bosses, Is Demand (By a Worker Correspondent.) FALI Mass., (By Mail).— aw the rise of the Pr movement for organization of the textile workers under the ban- ner of the left win As a result of the general wage hing o@mpai of the textile barons of the United Front Committees, under the leadership of John J. Ballam, took the lead in fighting. the drive of the bosses, and although the United Fr Committe, due technical d culties, was late in getting under way, we were successful in rallying a large to and representative group of textile workers to our conference in Law- rence, in the summer of 1925, The policy outlined at Lawrence, and the enthusiasm of the delegates present, resulted in the world fa- mous Pass Strike, which stopped the wage-cutting campaign of the bosses and gaye us a wider rank and file appeal for the movement, thruout. the entire country. The progressives were proven leaders and organizers, no longer could we be dubbed dreamers and agitators. Beginning with the fall of 1926, and profiting by the general demoraliza tion which had infected all of labor organizations in the New E Textile industry, (reactionary progressive alike,) the bi began a second, general drive to smash the unions and cut wages—but the work- ers of New England have learned their lesson, and the Progre Committees rallied to the call for ac- tion. . A general call te action was sounded and the Fall River Com- mittee, on whom the main work fell, surprised the bosses and the re- actionary leadership by the ex- tensive and effective agitation they set up for resistance, through the general strike. Immediate Walk-Outs. Despite the fact that 100,000 workers had already accepted the cut, and that over 40 per cent of the industry was unemployed, the workers of Fall River reacted to the cut with immediate walk-outs in the Stevens and Davis mills. This action was as a trumpet call to re- sist for every worker in the in- dustr In these strikes the pro- gressive committee was represented, but had not sufficient forces to counteract the treachery of the A. F. T. ©. officialdom, who de- liberately miscounted the ballots cast in the council strike meeting. nd and However the widespread and dis-| trik af tion of 20,000 leaflets calling for ght and the raising of the pro- gressive slogan of “ge at mass meetings,— the workers into act: ing tempo of the demonstrated in the magnificent spirit shown in the fight in the Parker Mill and in the fact that Or- ganizers Reviere and Campos have been driven into adoption of our pro- gressive program; even to the state- strike wave ment: “if you don’t like your leaders, | kick them out.” Under the stimulus of the work in Fall River other local groups have revived and a general movement for organization is again making its appearance—the workers are re- sponding to our agitation and the moment is ripe for an organiza- tional drive to embrace all New England. The main task of the coming con- ference will be to organize the widespread sentiment for fight. To organize the resentment of the workers against the growing in- justice of enforced unemployment. To organize and make effective our slogan of general strike as a means of ending the attack of the boss. To prepare for the next and greater Passaic—a strike at the heart of the New England bosses, on a New England scale. —WILLIAM MURDOCH Defends Her Press (By a Worker Corresepondent.) LOS ANGELES, Calif., (By Mail). --I am sending you $10 for your de- fense. I am an old lady and still go out working very hard as I am poor, but would sure not be able to sleep well nights thinking, had I not done my best for our comrades and. our paper. I buy the paper at the news- OOD print- ing of all description at a fair price. stand. Now please, comrades, for Let us estimate on certain reasons do not sign my name and address in the paper but simply your work, state received for The DAILY WORKER Defense from —MRS. E, S. AT LEAST HE GETS MEAT. Vilhjalmar Stefansson is still eat- ing meat exclusively—and still hasn’t scurvy, at the end of a week. The Arctic explorer is subjecting himself to the test at the Bellevue Hospital here under the auspices of the Russell Sage Foundation, to prove that an all meat diet.does not cause the disease. eACTIVE PRE See ck FO nk ee. $$ FIRST STREET NEW Y Telephone ORCHARD SS RD ORK this section, | | pays Ryan Fleeces Dock Workers in New York ung a da, allow rebe ve | $100. This is the kind of hardships we | dock-workers have to endure. If you @:guts enough to protest, you are (By a Worker Correspondent.) I am a longshoreman working on | the New York waterfront. | time I have been unemployed. Jobs | are very hard to get. wait in vain for a day’s and even half a day’ swork. hours and hours near the docks have to go away without a job. Those: that are a little more for- have worse than a Chinese coolie. Some of the union jobs are well paid, but it |is a luxury for a dock worker to work two at one of these jobs. The ships do not carry large car- goes at the present time. Many of the jobs that are supposed to be union ones are only a joke. Union conditions are hardly enforced jon the jobs. Joseph |friend of our “butterfly mayor, | pre: ate and 0 sident of the International Long-| shoremen’s Association (I. L. A.) is not interested worker Neither does he care to see that union conditions are enforced on the job. Ryan’s get “presents every way possible these gentlemen are trying to make an easy dollar at the. workers’ expense naturally. In many cases the business agents 0 the stevedores to hire union help while paid-up union men are walking the streets. Naturally ~|these business agents get “presents” from the stevedores for this kind of favor. At the Cunard Line docks a worker as much as $100 a year to the stevedores for a job. The worker has to do as the stevedore says. If he Is, he is fired and he loses his lackeys are always trying to IDAHO MINER LAUDS POLICY OFTHE “DAILY” Calls It Only Paper With | Mine News (By a Worker Correspondent.) NAMPO, Idaho, (By Mail).—I have ben reading The DAILY WORKER ever since it started in Chicago, and it is the only paper that-mentions the strike in the mines, I don’t see any- thing in the capitalist paper about the starving miners, how they are dying of hunger by inches. They pro- |duce the coal and are forbidden to |useeit. It seems the more they pro- duce the less they have, and the more machinery they have to produce with, | the less people are employed, while} [everythin costs more. Things like |autos can \be ‘produced and sold for less than they are bringing. So the | bosses will slash the workers’ wages. I see that your paper is getting in bad circumstances. I would hate to see it break up. I may be a little late in sending you money but you see it} takes between three and four days lfor the paper to reach us. I would] rather you wouldn’t mention my nanie. For some Many workers Many after standing a job are treated tyan, the bosom ” and in the affairs of the from the workers. In —A WORKER. ————eeeSSS labelled a “red.” How much longer , fellow dock- workers, will we endure such hard- ships? It is about time we told Joseph Ryan and his gang their right place. So long as this bootblack of Tammany Hall is president of our union conditions will be rotten. We) must elect an honest leadership that | will have guts enough to fight for our own interests and not for the ship- owners. Stay inside the union and fight. Attend the union meétings. —J. 0’S., LONGSHOREMAN. non- We have pretty good results from the “Daily Worker.” But we would like to know, if there are more readers, who are delaying their orders. to write to us. 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