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vestigate special conditions thruout
the companys activities" He is ito
advise all parties interested in regard
to decisions on the part of the man
agement."
He has the power to "see that
statement of the facts in any griev-
ance is prepared and furnished to the
general committee"
He shall arrange the necessary rou-
tine, and see that complete records
are kept"
Employees Not Allowed.
This paternalistic scheme pretepds
to allow an equal number of repre-
sentatives of the employees to act on
committees with the Pullman officials,
but under the union-breaking plan the
bureau Of industrial relations, which
smoothing but a sugar-coated name for
the officials of the Pullman plant, and
the Pullman official appointed by the
president as supervisor, have all the
real power in their hands.
Despised Stool Pigeons.
1t is a well known fact in the Pull
man plant that those employees who
are allowed to act on those COMMITTEE
es are the stool pigeons of the Com
pany, who go among the men, find out
what they are up to and report back
to the Pullman officials.
These traitors to their class are the
most depised men in the Pullman
curry favor with the Pullman presi-
dent by doing his dirty work for him.
Cloak for Understanding.
The plan of employee representa-
ton" has been in effect since June 1st
1928. Has 1t bettered the conditions of
the employees? Has it raised their
wages, shortened their hours, reduced
their living costs? On the contrary
since that time, while pretending to
deal fairly with employees, the Pull
man Company has frightened the screws
even harder on the employees. 1t has
introduced one cut in wages after
another. 1t has reduced the scale of
pay, on the piece work system, time
and again. 1t has made the men work
faster and faster, making of them no
thing but broken pieces of machinery
1t has made the men work in the open
air, in all kinds of weather, telling
them if they don't like it they can go
home. It has crippled and MANNED
hundreds, and when it came to paying
compensation, squirmed out of it's OBJ
legation wherever possible. What
pensions have been paid are entirely
inadequate to support one man, let a.
lone family.
Not content with reducing wages,
the Pullman Company has increased
the living costs of its employees by
raising rents of its company houses
: from to Is dollars a month on every
house. This is what the employee plan
of representation has done for the
slaves who work for "Mr. Pullman"
Employees sect WISE"
For time the employees might have
been encouraged with the hope of rub
bling shoulders with some of the
bosses in the committee meetings
They were flattered by being called
committeeman" and fired with am
bition to please the Pullman officials
by being eontented slaves, in the hope
of being admitted to the society of the
Pullman officials. But after a few
wage cuts, after the institution of the
merciless speed up system, which is
the application of the sweat shop
method to the steel industry, the en-
ployees got wise. They have said
Keep your damned title of commit
teemen.' We're tired of being stool
pigeons. You can have those empty
honors; but give us the money to
raise our families decently. Make
our working conditions safe and COM
Portable so we wont be half sick all
the time"
Nothing in Common.
The workers who have just gone
out on strike have realized that the
Pullman Company will sacrifice the
lives of their employees every time as
long as it will bring them in a little
money. The slogan of the Pullman
Company is, Don't allow the unions
to get a foothold. Increase profits and
dividends, even il you have to make
human wrecks OF the employees"
The striking Pullman employees
know the workers and the Pullman
Company have nothing in common.
They have found that any so-called
union" promoted by the Pullman
Company which is formed to increase
Pullman activity is out to make more
profit.
Honest-to-ood Union.
The Brotherhood of Railway Car
men, Just organized by the riveters.
reamers, buckers, filters and other
steel workers, is out to raise the
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