The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-05
HEARST'S MORON
WRITER, HINMAN,
SOLVES IT ALL
Thinks Workers Should
Toll Longer Hours
BY H. o. WATT.

Especial to The DAILY WORkER.)
YORK, Pa, Sept. 4.-George Hin.
man, editor of Hearst's Financial
Sheet, says today that Americans
live in a too-easy fashion, but will
awaken soon" No doubt, this is an
other prediction of return to nor
malcy and the ten Cor twelve) hour
day, as Hinman ridicules the idea of
the possibility of existing under CAPT
talism on short work day. Human
especially desires that the working
man have large houses and heavy
automobiles and other evidences of
prosperity and the way to procure
them is to work long hours.
Had this moron ordinary powers Of
observation, he might have noticed
that those who work the shortest
number of hours, or no hours at all,
are those who possess the largest
houses and the heaviest automobiles.
But Hinman has in mind those fortu-
nate workers who have had intelli-
gence enough to organize and thereby
improve their working conditions. 1t
is gall to those of Humans type to
realize that the working class has
made some progress.
The Agricultural Situation.
But if Human should visit this
agricultural section he would find the
population wholly at loss to under
stand his references. From an agri-
cultural point of view, York County,
Pennsylvania, cannot be improved up
on. The soil is of the richest and the
climate ideal for the raising of bumper
crops.
Not only in York County, but thru
out the country as whole, the farm
ers compose the largest part Of the
population. The farmers do not know
the meaning of short hours. Speak to
the farmer Of the eight-hour day and
he assumes that what is meant is
eight hours in the morning and eight
hours in the afternoon. From 400
a. m. until 500 p. m. (16 hours) is
the regular work day. The week con-
sists of seven days, altho on Sunday
the live stock is given rest
No Rest For Farmer.
But no rest for the farmer; he
draws milk and takes it to the sta
ton on Sunday as on every other day.
And he does all the small jobs on the
day of the Lord that he doesn't have
time to do during the week when he
must keep his mules busy. Accord
ing to George Hinman, these are the
folks who are prosperous; surely they
work long enough and hard enough.
But what are the facts? Invariably,
when any sort of employment is avail
able in an agricultural community in
this county, such as when man with
threshing or hay-baling outfit, ar
rives, the farmers will leave their
farm work and assist the thresher for
wages of $500 a day.
The work is laborious and unremit-
ting. Only the more vigorous may
work Gin the straw" j. e., erect the
immense stacks of straw as rapidly
as 1t is shot out Of the mouth of the
funnel of the threshing machine.
These are the men who are working
long hours to supply with food George
Humans parasites. No wonder Hin
man does not want them to shorten
their hours. If this should happen
the leeches Of society would have to
go to work and produce some of their
own necessities-or raise the rent of
the property they own!
Recently an account was printed in
the DAILY WORKER to the effect
that strikers had gone into farming
communities to help in making hay
for $500 day. The writer of the ar
ticle intimated that this low wage
was hardship to the workers-and
no doubt, it was, but in this section
of the United States the workers
would consider themselves very for.
tunate indeed if they might earn $500
per day. The wage for carpenters is
$500 a day, considerably less than
one-half the wage paid to carpenters
in the sections where they are or.
ganized. But the workers shouldn't
organize, says Hinman.
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