The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1931, Page 7

» ALLAN MARKOFF 1873 Marmion Ave., Bronx, N. Y. ‘New York Workers ——— DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1931 Page Seven vf Letters to Employes; Scheme to Make Men Work Faster and Drop Some NEW YORK.—The Bliss Foundry) first one, received by the men on is not only speeding up and firing its| April 7, hardly did more than point workers so as to keep profits high| out that if one factory closes down it enough to carry a-number of relatives! will be injurious to the others, be- end friends of the president and vice | cause there will not be enough work- * president on the payroll at $500 or so) ers drawing wages to buy the product. | ‘ ay That is true, but laying off men| ers is to be abolished because the a week, but it is accompanying the Wage-Cuts (By a Worker Correspondent.) Notices have been posted in the }mills of the Bemberg-Ganzstoff Rayon Corporation that beginning May 1, all departments will work seven days # week. Sunday as a rest day for the work- drive against its workers with a really | because others are speeded up will do| bosses complain that too much ma- rreta 4/49/54) LOAFING TO MAEE THN JOR Last Dear: Sir: The ti caids coming to the effice for the pas onthe cur shop ere not trying todo a-day's work. Tae nunder of koura being spent on a plece of werk now 4s more ‘than wax spent on the sexe job sev 1 months ago. If you are loafing on the Jod you have todey thinking £t will insure you work tomorrow yeu Ore preventing us from getting orders for wore proanes to bull next week, ‘The Company cannot continue to employ you unless {( has orders to bullé presses. Wo must build pi er now than we dia a ar ago. Other shops are builat: aper and offering -them for lee. joney. If you take more time to do your part of the work than you 41d ten months ago you reasing the co: the coat of theirs, our presses while cther shops are reducing (If you do 6 be nid off you should take @ ler 53 nueber ours to finish your parts than you did & year ago ~ help reduce the ost of our pi 2 59 we ean get more orders. There are enotigh Presses deing acld to keep our ahop busy and Sean 20 all gmplozed if we could get the orders, What are you going to of +, Loaf on your Job totay and Let another atop get the next order and ff ov are you going te do your best to ‘eduee the tiae on tatay 30 wo cum get mere Svaprs te Keep you employed next week? The time cards show that you can do more work im a day that you bave' been doing. Do riot fool yourseif - Loafing on your Job today means lose work for you ~ not wore work. Tako thie howe ead think it over. May save you Being laid off. Yours truly, Latter He. 3 ‘To Baployess, 3.6, tovamar. nauseating campaign of letter-writ-;the same thing as closing factories, | | only Loughry carefully failed to point | Letter No. 4 is almost the same as ing. The letters are sent out by J. C,| that out, Laughry, who explains in the first Workers to Compete one that he is “sitting up nights” to/ write these letters and explain things | to the men for their own benefit, Ac: tually, this Laughry left about two weeks ago and has been gone on a six weeks’ pleasure trip to California. Soft-Pedal At First The second letter received on April 9, was also a little careful, its point! profits to its stockholders who don't jis in the next to last paragraph, which | says: “If you take 100 hours to finish ; Some pieces and a man in another shop does the same number of pieces| April 21; still the same old argument jin 50 hours, that shop gets the next terial and fuel is used when the plant has to get started-on Mondays after being shut down on Sundays. Fuel and material cost money, while work- ers today can be kicked out easily and replaced. So the bosses now plan to save on fuel and material and take it out of the workers’ hides, TDAY WE. |Bliss Co. in Slimy Campaign |RAYON BOSSES 10 ‘TOLEDO TEACHERS | For Lay Offs and Speed Up) ORDER , Starts Firing in Violation of Promises in Series|Following Sweeping FACE WAGE CUTS ‘Must Join With Rest of Working-Class TOLEDO, O., April 29.—Nearly 1,000 school teachers, facing a wage cut of. 25 per cent took part in a meeting here at which exposures were made of a huge waste of public funds, of pay- | ment of excessive salaries in a county | office and failure of the grand jury to investigate tax assessments favor- ing the rich. City officials who attended the meeting which was held in Scott high school auditorium, were put through @ severe quiz by the angry teachers and forced to contraduct_ themselves many times. The teachers here are beginning to ze that they are workers and | must unite with the working-class cause we have no orders to build presses.” This is an insidious attempt to make one group of workers compete with another. Naturally the other shop will also then insist on the pieces being done in, perhaps, 30 | hours, and so on, back and forth. | Letter No, 3, received by the men {on April 13, was threatening and right to the point. All pretense was laid aside. What Bliss wanted was explained in no uncertain terms, Bliss | wanted speed-up. Of course they | used the regular line of every fore- | man when he is trying to rush the | job, they accused the workers of | “loafing.” You're always loafing in | the opinion of the boss if an ounce | more work can be squeezed out of you. And the old familiar, “You're | working slower than you used to,” is {in this letter. This one isn’t polite, “If you do not want to be laid off you should take a less number of \hours to finish your parts than you | did @ year ago—help reduce the cost |of our presses so we can get more | orders,” says Loughry, i njust those words. A photograph of this letter appears in this issue of the Daily Worker. | After the hard smash right between ‘the eyes, Loughry pulled the velvet glove on again, and began to argue. | Letter No. 2: “Speed-up, compete with the men in other shops,” so | Bliss Co, can carry through its $500 {a year real loafers, and can pay big even pretend to work. | the men got on April 16. After that came Letter No. 5, on This letter of trying to work so hard you scab “aecepts many orders at less than cost to keep you employed.” The men don't believe this, but some of them were fooled by the flat statements in Letters 1 and 2 that they were assured of a steady job if they only speeded up. They were | quickly undeceived, for two days after | Letter 5, a “general cleaning out” | started, and many white collared men }and many shop workers were paid} off. That is how much Loughry’s promises are worth. As soon as Bliss Co. sees one man can do two men’s work, they fire one man. On May 1, another bunch will be given the air. And if the workers will only follow | Loughry’s advice and speed up some | more, still more of them can be fired. Ready For War . A war preparations angle is seen | in the Bliss speed up, The Bliss com- | pany is just now manufacturing press- | es and other machine-shop equip- ment. But they have manufactured, and can still make: airplane engines, field artillery, barrels, large shells, | torpedo casings, aerial bomb casings, | and a lot of other things like that. | Two Fake “Communists” | All sorts of funny things are hap-| | pening at Bliss Co. A few days ago | the bourgeois press reported a “$50,-| | 000 hold up and one man shot.” Ac- | tually, $70 only was taken, and a man was slightly wounded. The hold | | was obviously an amateur affair, and | President Willard of the B. é& O. had} recently announcde, “I ‘would rather | steal than starve.” | The Coot brothers, Sam and Max, | are foremen, and fierce slave drivers. | |They have spread the rumor that | they are Communists, and are “driy- | |ing the workers to make them dis- contented.” This crazy idea is cer-| | tainly not Communist tactics, ‘and the | The first two letters approached the | order for presses—he continues to|the workers in other shops out of | Communist Party declares, Sam and| matter of speed-up rather softly. The have work while you will be idle be-| their jobs, and alleging that, Bliss Co.’ Max Coot are not members of it. ! MAY DAY GREETING to the DAILY WORKER Aly compliments to the DAILY WORKER which serves the laborer of today best of all, My wish is that I continue repeating to the men and women of America that work— creative work for all—is essential, and that @ properly organized government will provide that work and its appropriate reward — comfort and leisure FOR ALL. : t 2 Theodore Dreiser ——————— Compliments of its of of _ Branch Store RIVER and WASHINGTON STS, PATERSON, N. J, { Greet ‘Daily Worker’ GREETING The New York Bakery Corner GOVERNOR and PATERSON STS. Revolutionary Greetings From SECTION No. 6, UNIT No. 2 Revolutionary Greetings F rom UNIT No. 1, SECTION No. 6 Compliments of Central Opera House 203 EAST 67th STREET NEW YORK CITY Greetings From J. 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Woodman Molly Sanson Al, Yareychuk | Vera Strober John Nahouchuk | M. Gatengs Edmund B. Chaffee, Director John Hunchuk H. Gardon Jacob Haluska Aroya Si tad | Grtmesk 242 E. 14th Street Sam M, Gordon Phil me C. Aldrotty REN TOES 8. 1. Hano 6 L J. Nagasskas S. Miller 8. Balson Revolutionary Greetings I. Loss A. Zabel From Anna Keedman }. Bernotos ILLIAM:! G. Zelnick B. Stekov efi ‘aban Hilda Manes M. Purvenas WORKERS CLUB Ida Friedman | J. Kripsitis ict D. Kessavar P. Bieliouskas S. Shorish A. Sinushas pliment: A. Kaufman Lipton on sat oie: ‘ & Revenbece -H PRINCE Jennie Cobe Cohen Abe prerrroncad House-Furnishings and Gifts nm. J. Esurin 1 hotnek cient 689 ALLERTON AVENUE May Day in ean Masses of workers listening to speakers of the Communist Party and Trade Union Unity League calling for a fight against hunger, wage cuts and imperialist war. and A. F. of L. meaning, of all militancy. And now, when each year the question of demonstrating on May First ari- ses, the American Federation of Labor complacently says—we have By GERTRUDE HAESSLER | AY DAY as a day of celebration | has a history full of militant strength, full of joyous spirit, full of black betrayal, and full of re- volutionary determination. This tradition was preserved and politicalized by the vanguard of che modern working class, the pro- letariat. This was begun in the United States on May 1, 1886, when 360,000 workers throughout the country went on strike for the eight-hour day. An-economic bat- tle, turning swiftly into a political battle when the Haymarket Frame- up became the bloody sequel of this first proletarian May Day demon- stration. Ever since then, the workers ce- lebrate May First as their own spe- cial holiday. Now what is the American Fed- eration of Labor doing when it endorses the official Labor Day proclaimed each year by the cap- italist government of the United States on the first Monday of Sep- tember? 5 Role of A. F. of L, Nothing can illustrate better the role of the American Federation as a brake on the revolutionary move- ment of the workers than this sub- missive compliance with the at- tempt to replace a militant day of demonstration, determined by the workers themselves, by a govern-| must teach the mothers how to ment-dictated celeBration, under| care for their children under the conditions which rob the day of all | capitalist system co that the dis- May First is not our Labor Day! And what has even this Labor | Day become? It is the last day of the summer tourist season. Labor Day closes many summer resorts, where few workers can go in any case. It is the signal to all hot- dog stands along the highways to close down, for the season ts over. ‘The move now going on by traders profitting from summer excursions, to postpone Labor Day two weeks in order that they may continue their profit-making two weeks More each year, is an eloquent co- mentary on what “Labor Day” means! Hoover's “Health Day” ‘Now comes @ new game. A game of ‘hypocrisy, of sham, of cynical gloating over the misery of the poor. May Day is to be Child’s Health Day! Our children should be healthy, says the government. Therefore the President issues a special -proclamation designating the First of May to start to make our children more healthy. How do they intend to do that? By re- moving the conditions which make our children sickly and ridden with disease? Banish the thought! 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The plans for wage | slashes for railroad workers have be- | come so notorious that the railroad | misleaders and Doak, Secretary of Labor, were forced to come out ana deny they had any part in them. From their past lying, every worker | knows that they are lying now. There is a definite wage cut plan | worked out by the railroad bosses. | The fakers in the railroad unions | know about it and are helping it along. The first Wall Street spokesman to come out with the fact that pay slashes are being prepared in the railroad industry was the Commer- cial and Financial Chronicle. ‘They yelped about the necessity of keeping up profits. How can this be done, they asked? Their answer was: “There appears to be only one alternative left, AND THAT IS | THE REDUCTION IN WAGE SCHEDULES!” Not satisfied with proposing pay | slashes for railroad workers, they urged the extension of the campaign to cover all workers, They proposed: “What is here said regarding railroad labor applies with equal force to labor in general.” Later Doak tried to deny there were pay cut plans in the railroad industry. He admitted that the bank- ers wanted to cut wages, but he| said there “was nothing to it.” The fact is well known that Doak was made secretary of labor because he was connected with the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. ' Heavy Attack on Wages of RR Workers Now Is Carried Out Bankers With Support of Hoover and Doak, Secretary of Labor, Plan Nation-Wide Wage Cuts for Railway Industry Doak made a statement on April 22nd denying there were pay cuts im- pending in the railroad industry. But very few workers believed him—be- cause wages were systematically be- ing cut on the railroads by speed-up, layoffs and discriminations against workers who refused to accept con- ditions of speed-up. When Doak failed to put over the lies about no wage cuts, another liar came out with the same statement. Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont on April 24th denied that depression.” Roberi P. Lamont is associated with J. P. Morgan & Co., he is associated with the leading railroad bosses who own $25,000,000,000 in railroad securi- ties; he is associated with the same individuals who voice the demand for wage cuts in the Commercial & Fi- nancial Chronicle and other Wail Street sheets. His purpose of denying wage cuts is the same as Doak’s, Gréen’s and Woll’s—to disarm the workers for struggle against wage cuts. On Saturday, April 25, 1931, the New York Evening Post came out with further proof of the wage cut drive against the railroad worker: In a special article written by Glen G. Munn entitled “Wage Cuts and Wage Boosts Urged to End Rail Slump,” the proposition is made to Keep uj rofits by ge readjust- ments.” idea of z creases in freight rates to get the farmers lined up the wage cut drive on the railroads eases arising from slum conditions | are kept down as much as pos- sible. Abolish the slums? Impossible | under capitalism, for capitalism ts built on slums. So a wide drive is on to educate the slum mother. ‘Starving Children | President Hoover, in his address | to the White House Conference on Children Health and Protection on | November 19 admitted that there | are 10,000,000 deficient children in | the United States, 80 per cent of | whom are not receiving the neces- | sary attention. But, says he, “the | | ill-nourished child is in our coun- ‘try not the product of poverty...” Think of it—six million children improperly nouirshed—but this is not the product of poverty! 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