The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-14
PHARMACIST IN
HOT LETTER TO
HIS GRAF SMEN
u rg e S Union for All
Drug Store Workers

NEW YORK CITY, oct. lZ.-FellOW
Pharmacists The bitter struggle for
bread, the strong yearning for econ
omic independence, has brought you
into the profession of pharmacy You
came fiocking into the colleges in
thousands with beautiful visions be-
fore you. Long hours, low wages, in
security of employment, drudgery of
the work, the Sitting atmosphere Of
the prescription department, held out
no scare for you.
You were going to be profession
al man; people were going to call you
doctor; you we're going to get
money somehow" and open up your
own drug store and you would be
making lots of money and everything
would work out beautifully! Fine!
While your imagination created beauti-
full pictures for you.
Petty Bourgeois Dreams Blasted
Then reality came-like a bitter pill
for you to swallow. You had difficulty
in getting work. You lacked exper-
fence and you therefore had to CON
descend to work for nothing or for
something next to it. You had to wash
bottles, sweep and clean around, all
for the privilege your boss gave you
to learn the game"
How 1t hurt your pride! You a phar-
macist, a college graduate, to do all
that! And the long hours, no Sunday
of, no opportunity afforded you of
having social activity due to night
work. You became used to it all. You
didn't mind. You looked forward TO
the happy day when you would open
your own drug store and then all
would be forgotten.
But fellow pharmacists, there is a
situation already created which makes
the problem little more difficult than
you imagine prosperity in the drug
business has already passed the zenith
point and is on it's way down the
curve. Expansion in the number of
drug stores has lost its intensity and
their values have risen. The labor
market is being oversupplied with
more clerks than can be used. That
makes a very favorable condition for
our bosses for they can pay any price
they please to the clerks.
You know quite well that registered
men are not averaging what they did
in the prosperous period What is
more, the bosses are using licensed
juniors in place Of registered men and
are having them function as such des.
pite the law. Youngsters who never
saw the inside of a college are hired
in place of college men wherever DOS
sible. All this tends to break down
the standard of the licensed men
thereby affecting all clerks. This
works in the favor Of the boss and
to the detriment of all. All classes of
men hired must be unionized.
Must Organize Union
What can YOU individually do about
1t? Nothing. You have a right TO a
living wage. Who is going to recogn.
lie that right? You can not stand nm
like man and demand your just com
pensation. A strong organization of
pharmacists can demand and get n
for you. We can create such an organ.
ization II you get rid OF the slavish
and Indifferent attitude which IS res.
ponsible for your condition.
Organize for a decent living and for
control OF your lob. Communicate
with the undersigned and we will ar.
range for an organization meeting.
Let us have your name, address, bust
ness and home telephone, your off day.
and send as many names as you can
procure and we will start the ball a
rolling. Yours for a successful organ.
ization,
THE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Per S. Einwohner
1Ol Pennsylvania Ave. Brooklyn, n. Y.