The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-05
PULLMAN STRIKE
HAS BACKING OF
GARMENTS union
Workers Everywhere
Told Of Struggle
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Pullman Company has not yet made
good their promise"
Some Pullman ManeuVers.
The DAILY WORKER learns that
the Pullman Company, trying to get
itself out of a sad mess with as good
grace as possible, is seeking to trans
fer the out-of-town men to other car
shops, and then switch the men al
ready in these jobs to strikebreaking
duty In this way they hoped to
dodge their responsibility of refund
ing the transportation money and at
the same time making use of their
old employees as scabs. But the men
in the other Pullman shops hape fat
ly refused to scab on the strikers of
the 10th street shop.
Foremen Can't Get Men Back.
Riveting foremen were active Satur-
day in trying to round up strikers to
return to work, but had no success.
Strikers told the DAILY WORKER
that the straw bosses of the Pullman
Company have good reason to be loyal
to the Pullman Company.
'The bosses and foremen get big
bonuses for speeding up the men,"
said one striker. my boss got a
monthly bonus of $500 for sweating
lot of production out of the men dur
ing March. This is all part Of the
damnable speed-up system. The fat
bonus that goes to the best slave-driv-
ing foremen does not come from the
benevolent Pullman Company but is
taken out of the pay of the men them
selves. The wages Of the men are re-
duced and the men speeded up, and
then the foreman gets part of the
money which should go to the work
ers."
Paid for Slave Driving.
Another striker said, "The amount
Of the foreman's bonus is determined
by the amount of hours he is able to
get the workers to put in as well as
the quantity of work produced by the
men. That's why the foremen are
always driving the men to the limit
Of their endurance. That is why we
have to work Sundays and holidays
many times in all kinds of weather.
We work until we drop, not with an
overtime scale, but at the regular
piece work scale, and the foreman
gets about half of the extra overtime
rate to which we arv entitled"
Carmen Aid Strikers.
John Holmgren, the strike leader,
showed the DAILY WORKER letter
he had received from Distirtc No. l
. of his organization, the Brotherhood
of Railway Carmen in st. Paul, which
has jurisdiction over the car shops Of
twelve northwestern railroads. The
letter said that the Hunt employment
agency, of st. Paul, had called up the
st. Paul headquarters of the Garments
Union and had asked for workers to
send to Pullman. The district officer
of the union said that they would not
supply men to act as strikebreakers.
The Hunt Employment Agency de-
clared that in asking for workers the
Pullman Company had told them
there was no labor trouble.
The carbuilders all over the coun-
try have been informed by their union
to stay away from Pullman.
A resident of South Chicago, a
riveter with 16 years experience, told
the strikers at their Saturday meet
ing that he worked for half day un-
til he learned that there was a strike.
He said, "All the time l was in the
shop, was cutting out bad rivets that
the inexperienced scabs had driven.
On an incompleted car, counted from
four to six hundred bad rivets on each
side of the car. In my opinion you
men have already won your strike"
Read II in the Daily Worker.
This man said that many men who
were working in the shops had found
out about the strike by buying and
reading the DAILY WORKER. He
explained that the men were taken in
a back gate so as to keep the men
away from the pickets. Many of the
men hired by the Pullman Company
declare they heard of the strike Wy
the picket cry" Of the DAILY WORK
Err news agents. who call. Read all
about the Pullman strike in the
DAILY WORKER"