The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-11
HARVESTER CO.
RULES IN FOREST
Mine and Mill
All Its Workers Under
Open Shop System
FOURTH ARTICLE.

ne international harvester
Company is one of the worst
exploiters of labor in the world.
The Harvester Trust, Morgan
controlled, not only pays starva-
ton wages to its factory en-
pIoyes in the Chicago tractor.
and harvester works, but it has
entered many other basic indus
tries, and has a nationwide
record as a non-union company.
The international Harvester
Company has iron mines in Min
nesota which increase it's profits
by the millions, while the miners
are forced to slave at strictly
Scab conditions of work.
The Agnew mines at Hibbing, Mimi,
have a capacity of 1000 tons of iron
ore per year. Another International
mine is located at Nashwauk, MINI.
This open pit and ore-washing mine
has a yearly capacity of 1,750,0OO tons
of iron ore per year. The Bruce mine
at Chisholm, Mimi. has yearly ca
pacity of 100000 tons of iron ore. At
present it is closed down, being held
in reserve" by the Harvester trust.
Besides these mines the company has
the Scranton mine at Hibbing, and
one-tenth Of an interest in the Hoyt
mining company.
EnsIaVing Lumberjacks.
The lumberjacks have cause to
know the company store, company
town policy of the Harvester Trust
effective thruout the Harvester COM
pany's extensive lumber camps and
towns. The International Harvester
company controls the very lives Of
its employees in its lumber commun-
tiles.
In Pemiscot and Dunklin counties,
Mo-, the International exploits $1,000
acres of timber land, principally ash,
cottonwood, gum, maple and oak. In
these rich lands, the International
owns 100 dwellings, schools and
churches, telling its employees what
they shall think, and charging high
rents for the houses and high prices
for goods at the company stores. The
lumber workers have no other choice
there are no other houses, stores or
schools on the 57,000-eeres.
Similar slave conditions exist in the
International Harvester's properties
in Rives, Missouri, where the company
has forty tenements, packing the men
in prison congestion, and conducting
the commissaries and the public
schools to suit themselves.
Coal Miners.
The international exploits 6,140
acres of coal in Benham, Kentucky,
and in Harlan county, KY, using only
non-union help, and fighting the mine
workers union at every opportunity.
Two mines of the International in this
section have a capacity of one million
tons of coal per year. The company
also operates 400 beehive coke ovens,
with capacity of 10000 tons of coke
per annum. Over FIVE hundred Inter-
national owned dwellings put the
miners at the mercy Of the company.
They can join union only on pain
Of being kicked out into the hills. The
company likewise runs the churches,
schools and stores.
The By-Products Coke plant in
South Chicago is owned by the Inter
national Harvester company. 1t con-
sists Of SO Wilputte coke ovens with
an annual capacity of $4,000 tons of
coke, and by-products consisting Of
tar, sulphur, sulphate of ammonia,
benzol and light oils.
Steel Workers.
The company owns three blast
furnaces, with an annual capacity of
half a million tons Of pig iron, and
covering 1896 acres in South Chicago.
1t also runs in South Chicago a bes-
semer mill, merchant mill, and
blooming mill, with an annual capaci-
ty of 100000 tons Of steel bars.
The international Harvester COM
pany is a giant octupus, spreading
thruout the entire country its tent
acles, which smash the unions, en-
slave workers, and enrich the Morgan
and Mccormick interests by millions
OF dollars.