The daily worker., 1924-06-04
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Director Oliver Ames of General
Electric and Western Union, the
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
can easily "fix things up" with the
telegraph trust. Besides Western
Electric manufactures most of the
equipment used by Western Union.
In fact, the company started as a
manufacturer of telegraph apparatus
in 1859.
Yesterday the family relationship
between Western Electric, American
Telephone G Telegraph, General Elec-
trio, Western Union and ]. p Nor
gan & Co. were briefly sketched in
the DAILY WORKER. Today we will
show how the electrical trust is tied
up closely with the worlds money
trust and almost countless profitable
activities in many sections.
Money, Money, Money.
To begin with, Edward r. Stetti-
MUS, director of Western Electrics
cousin, General Electric, is also a
director on the following corpora
tions, according to the Directory of
Directors, New York City, 1921-1922:
Babcock and Wilcox Company, Fidel-
ity Phenix Fire Insurance Company,
General Motors Corporation, Interna-
tional Agricultural Corporation, Inter-
national General Electric Company.
Taking only one of the companies
just named to show how extensively
its operations are, we choose General
Motors Corporation, which puts out
the Buick, Cadillac, Oakland, Oldsmo-
bile, General Motors Truck and Chew
rolet cars, and A-C spark plugs, Delco
starting, ignition and lighting sys-
TENS, Harrison radiators, Hyatt bear
ings, Jacov steering gears, Jaxon
rims, Klaxon horns, etc, ETC., besides
controlling iron and steel and other
subsidiary companies necessary in the
production Of autos and parts.
Morgan, Financial "Papa."
Then, Of course, ]. p Morgan him
self directs in the Aetna Insurance
Company, Chamber of Commerce of
the State of New York, the Discount
Corporation, the First Security Com
pany, International Mercantile Ma
rine, Metropolitan Opera and Real
Estate Association, Montana Farming
Corporation, the Pullman Company
and the United States Steel Corpora
tion.
The Pullman Company and the U.
S. Steel are notorious for following
the same anti-labor, strictly non
union, speed-up policy that the West
ern Electric pursues. The Pullman
Company, which makes, owns and
runs all the Pullman sleepers in the
country as we'll as manufacturing
freight and passenger cars, does have
weak pretense Of company union
ism.
In the recent spontaneous strike at
the Pullman works, just outside OF
Chicago, the company union finks
were largely responsible for the
breaking Of the strike, altho II took
them over month with an alliance of
hunger and non-support Of the strike
by fellow workers to conquer the men
who stayed out.
All Slave Drivers
The United States Steel needs no
Introduction to the working-class. II,
too, has always been known for its
long hours OF labor, its slave-driving
pace, and It's extremely poor pay. Like
It's relatives in the financial family,
the Pullman Company and Western
Electric, II has always bitterly opposed
the least sign OF organization among
the workers, altho It is quite willing
to relate Itself into gigantic combine
OF business interest. industrial and n.
nancial, to beat the workers and the
public" as nearly insensible as pos
sible. The family" takes the profits,
the public squeals little thru its