The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-12


cut wages.
The company has refused to deal
with the carmen. Instead, the com
pany has put over what it calls the
Pullman Plan of Employee Repres.
entation," fake union game in which
the EMPLOYERS have their own
representatives on the so-called Cen
eral Employees Committee, and the
WORKERS HAVE NO REPRESENT
ALTON WHATEVER on the Com
pany's committee. The steel carmen
struck.
Carry On Militant Struggle.
You must understand that the action
Of the Pullman corporation is but the
beginning of another systematic wage
cutting and longer hour campaign.
What the Pullman corporation is try
ing to sneak over on the carmen, it
will, if it succeeds now, attempt on all
the workers employed by it. But the
Pullman Company will not succeed if
YOU WORKERS are organized and
carry on militant struggle to prevent
it.
In 1894, in the great Pullman strike,
the workers put up remarkable fight
which frightened the bosses and near
ly brought them to terms. During the
next strike, the men organized in the
Railway Employees Department of the
American Federation of Labor They
forced the Pullman corporation to an
agreement which brought also union
recognition and representation Even
thru this small organization the work
ers brought about the abolition OF
piece-work, established the S-hour day..
time and a half for overtime, and
secured proper classification of en-
ployes, besides improving tremend-
ously the working conditions.
In the present strike, the striking
carmen have been putting up a fine
and courageous battle against the Pull
man bosses. The picketing Of the
strikers has been great stuff and in
spring to workers everywhere and al
ready is causing the powerful Pullman
corporation to want to talk agree
ments" with the Strikers Committee.
The Workers Party Of Chicago and
its Pullman Section are with the strik-
ers 100 per cent and stand ready to
help in every way they are called
upon. Your battle is our battle, is
the struggle of all workers against OPP
preston and exploitation by the capt.
talist robber system.
Organize the Union.
In this strike, the striking workmen
are making some Roadway in organic
ing into the Brotherhood of Railway
Carmen. At all costs you must en-
deavor to hold this nucleus Of union
organization together after this strike
is over and continually to bring in
more and more Of the workers for
future inevitable attacks. Unions are
the economic organizations by which
the workers can defend themselves
from the attacks of the bosses. Bosses
fear organized workers and their
unions; they are not disturbed a bit
if you are not organized. But the or
ganized strength of the workers makes
them talk turkey" to you.
Because workers have struck in some
shops in Pullman, other workmen
have also had to lay down their tools.
We say. this is the time to bring all
these workers together, to make COM
mon cause with them. Unite your
forces. The Pullman Company of bos-
SEES is organized 100 per cent against
the workers. The workers must or
ganize 100 per cent against the Pull
man bosses and then you will be able
to lick them and prevent 40 per cent
wage cuts, the Taylor speed-up sys-
tenn and even worse slave conditions.
During this strike, the workers of
Pullman have had an opportunity to
see how the Workers Party is ready
to give the strikers all possible as
sistance. The DAILY WORKER. Of
fetal organ of the Workers (Com-
munis) Party. is the only daily paper
that has told the facts and the work.
ers' side, the only true side, OF the
strike. The DAILY WORKER and the
Workers Party are always at the COM