The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-06-18

Company ana uolhg fVerylhiS ior
the good of the Comphny.'
Says "The Observer which is pub
lished by the Bish(p and Babcock
Company and the Cldveland Machine
Company; "Team-wdk means for
getting little persona things and
doing it for the gooh of the Com
pany." That is "AmeEcanism" in all
it's beauty. Forget little personal
things
Only you and youf family suffer
from cut in wageJ It is "a little
personal thing" Fordkt it. Only you
and your family suffd when you are
out of york" "a little ersonal thing"
Don't make fuss abdlt it.
Another employees magazine that
harps on framework IS "The Center
Punch" of The Amer tan Multigraph
Company. "Team-worf, !" it says in
No. of Vol. 3, "canl only be got by
having everyone know their job, while
having the fullest confidence in the'I
other fellow" Team work and conf
dence above all, confidence, conf
dence! And how does The American
Multigraph Company use the confi-
dence Of it's employees? Here, in the
same issue of "The Center Punch" is
pretty story Of
10 HOURS WORK
FOR 8 HOURS PAY
which is told in three little articles,
the first of which is "a Plea From
The Eight Hour Committee" The first
fe wines will do. Here the yare: "We,
the Eight Hour Committee of the
Multigraph Industrial Congress have
guaranteed and pledged to keep up
production in exchange for the short
er day." If you think that keeping up
production does not mean turning out
in 8 hours the same amount Of work
| as was turned out in 10 hours, here is
something from another article on the
same subject under the heading: "The
Hard Working Eight Hour Commit
tee." Beginning with mush-and-syrup
stuff about the committee, the ar
ticle SINNERS down to something with
kick in it: "The eight hour commit
tee has finished oae.Aisljcb, and now
starts upon another. They have guar
anteed that production figures SHALL
mot FALL"
| But how do l know they used to
work ten hours? got it from little
sermon-in the same issue-by Phil
Severance, Assembling Department.
Phil says: "The fact that we are now
working eight hours a day brings a
feeling of satisfaction difficult to de-
scribe when compared to the old stand
ard of ten hours"
So it is a case of doing ten hours
work in eight hours. Nothing is sale
about any change in wage rates. That
means-doing ten hours work for
eight hours pay In the light of these
facts, turn now to this article:
CUTTING A MELON"
BY S. S. Schnell, Filing Dept.
, "Did you ever read of meeting O.
stockholders of firm when they GU
a melon? Well, they usually hav'
flowers, music, eats and speeches
Then the treasurer Of the compan.
announces handsome dividend on tn
stock, besides some undivided profit
that enable each stockholder to in
crease his holdings in the concern.
"It certainly must be grand an
glorious feeling to be a participant il
such feast, but we have just had
dividend declared to the employees o
the American Multigraph Company
viz. $50 hours to each employee 70
the next six months paid for by tn
company. This is worth about 500 t
every man and woman employed b
the firm, or $65,OOO for the tots
= number of people in the plant at tn
s present time.
: ITO an optimist, this looks quit
!. like cutting a melon.y
'el THE POISON WORKS.
y; Mr.. Schnell does not mention II
blessings Of the eight hour day. Tc
;, bad, he overlooked something else Il
=, which to be thankful to the compan
;, He sees no connection between Il
al two. 1t does not occur to him that tn
u announcement Of an "employees' d
'e vidend' is for the purpose of givir
the workers something about whi'
o. o. to have "A grand and glorious fee
II ing" so they won't stop to think abo
:" the fact that they are now doing
hours work for 8 hours pay.
f. Do you wonder now why employed
ar magazines lay so much stress on II
.al planting in the workers a confiden
in the firm? It takes lots Of CON
dence and bushels Of employees'-m
es. gazine-Ariericanism to reduce norm
men and women to such a state
ch. idiocy that they are incapable Of dol
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