The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-18
ELECTRIC TRUST
FIRES men TO
EvADE PENSION
Daily Workers Biggest
Expose Tomorrow
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sports, entertainments, magazines and
circulars, all Of which try to lull the
worker away from thot Of his slim
pay envelope and his scab conditions
Of work, the Western Electric inserts
quarter page advertisements in all the
capitalist papers blaring forth the So
called virtues Of the company.
"cood Wages" Pretty Small.
The typical Western Electric color
ing and distortion of fact is displayed
in the Western Electric pamphlet,
"A Good Place to Work" in the para
graphs on Good Wages" The com
pany boasts that practically all en-
ployes receive their pay weekly. From
Monday to Saturday the works cash
iers pay out more than $1,000, 000."
This statement, on analysis proves to
be boomerang against the company
when it is considered that 100000 en-
pIoyes are paid at Hawthorne. The
average wage is thus $25 per week.
This is an extremely low average
after the high wages paid to the Of
ficials and executives Of the company
are taken into consideration. When
these high salaries, which run up to
tens Of thousands of dollars are taken
out it will be seen that the average
pay given the producing workers is
vastly less.
Vacation-After Five Years.
In this pamphlet, printed on high
grade, altho, of course, non-union pa
per, the Western Electric company
boasts Of the fact that "the Western
Electric was one of the pioneers in
-onting vacations with pay to shop
ond hovr,v roto,, employees" But they
are forced to adrpit that "a weeks
vacation is given 70 shop workers
AFTER FIVE YEAR, VI SNNV'
ICE"
Thus the Western ElectrA -
of the fact that they do not, e.an'
shop employees vacations until !. u0y
have been with the company five
years, while the general practice is
to give weeks vacation after a year
Of or six months Of service.
We also learn that the Western
Electric gets the employees coming
and going. They get as low scale of
wages as any industrial plant in the
country, and while the Western Elec-
trio, in its hot air propaganda, claims
to consider the interests of the en-
ployes, it admits that the cooperative
store Carrying well chosen line Of
merchandise, had sales of more than
$4,000 over its counters in 1922"
Not Even Company Union.
1t is in this introduction to Western
Electric efficiency" "be satisfied
bunk" that the worker is let down
easy in learning that the employees
have no union. There is not even a
company union in Western Electric
such as exists in the Pullman and
other large industrial plants. The
Western Electric conducts an organi-
zation even more deadening to thot,
more reactionary, and more bitter
against unions than the company
union.
This organization is the Hawthorne
club, of which more will be said later.
The Hawthorne club is IAN organiza-
ton formed to promote a spirit of
good fellowship thruout the works
All employees belong to the Hawthorne
club. I'm other words, the Hawthorne
club is an organization formed to
make the employees satisfied with
their jobs.
Button--Aftsr is Years.
The Western Electric always sub
stitutes some form OF bunk for actual
payment of the worth of the employe
In hard cash. When the employee has
worked in the Western Electric plant
for Is years, he is given nice, round
little button. This button is said by
the company to be gold, but inspection
proves even the button to be cheap
imitation of gold.
The company boasts a lot about its
efficient pension system, hut wives of
Western Electric workers have made
special trips to the DAILY WORK
er to tell us Of cases where their
husbands were discharged the day be-