The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-24
CALL POLICE
FOR STRIKERS
PAY DAY Line
Forced To Wait Long
For Their Money.

The strike of the car workers
against the Pullman Company
is spreading.
1t is expected that a general
walkout of all the shopmen and
yardmen, which will completely
tie up the car works of the Pull
man shops, will be launched be-
fore the day is over.
Sympathy for the striking riveters,
reamers, filters. buckers and heaters
is spreading rapidly to the $4,000 en-
ployes of the Pullman Company
Many shopmen in other depart
ments did not return to work yester-
day morning and augmented the ranks
of the strikers.
The strike committee told c. D.
McLaren and A. B. Gum, production
manager that they would not compro-
mise, and refused to accept a cut in
WAGES. MCLdIGu tnCdbpACu W NAOp
the names of the strikers off the pay
roll, but his bluff did not scare the
strikers yesterday.
When the five numbered strikers cal
led for their pay yesterday morning at
1880 o'clock they were told by the pay
master to come back for their money
in the afternoon.
The men called for their pay at one
o'clock and after a wait of two hours
received their back pay. Two police
men, officers no. 1856 and 32s9. were
on guard at the gates to the employ
ment office where the strikers were
paid. They showed the men around
on the sidewalk good DEAL but the
strikers were not all cowed-
Pull Regular Pullman Stuff
McLaren refused to give the strikers
back the money they deposited on
tools they we're using up to the time
of the strike. The strikers were re-
fused admittance to their lockers in
side the yards, in which they have
their personal possessions.
AS the men lined up for their pay
several foremen and hirelings of the
Pullman Company circulated among
the men pleading with them to return
to work until the differences are set
tied
One foreman was heard to remark.
''You fellows certainly have started
something. All the other departments
have caught the fever and are talking
strike"
How Speed-up System Works
A member of the strike COMMITTEES
told the DAILY WORKER that the
Pullman Company used to pay SIS
and use a gang of forty men for fit-
ting up the side of a car Now they
pay only $3.50 for fitting up one SIDE.
and use seven men.
"They accomplished this by using
the 'speed-up' piece work system"
the striker said. 1.-THE Pullman EN-
ployes have been the sickest lot OF
workers employed in the steel shops.
All the life is driven out of them
When the Pullman employees go to
another shop they have to work alone
They are the fastest piece workers in
the steel shops. This is because the
Pullman Company continually tries to
speed up the workers, and when they
get so they are earning a fair living
along comes a drastic reduction. as in
this case.
"The men have come to the end of
their rope, and they are going to fight
the speed-up system TO finish"
This striker told the DAILY WORK
Err that riveters receive only 81 for
riveting the side of a car. BY work
ing twelve, fourteen or sixteen hours
day the riveter can complete a side
in one day. For the hardest kind OF
work, before this drastic cut. the riv-
eter managed to earn only 81 day.
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