The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-09
Sweat shop Conditions.

SWCah SHOH 0ONdiAASHSs
Let us consider our shop problems,
fellow workers. Does our boss treat
us like men living in the twentieth
century? In the few minutes we have
for eating our lunch, we cannot even
find a bench to sit on, there is so
much dirt and grease and parts Of
machinery are strewn all around the
place. The Shiny wet floor that we
stand on all day exposes us all to
rheumatism For the privilege to work
for a miserably low wage we are ex-
posed daily to disease.
For being loyal suckers, our boss,
Mr.. Himoff, pays to a few wages a
little higher than to the rest Of us,
but these few must realize that the
more they scheme to bury us the
deeper they sink too. By keeping us
down they set the same pace for
themselves. They will gain more by
standing by us. Remember, fellow
workers, that a man who is traitor
to his class is at the same time a
traitor to himself. u
l am addressing myself to those
poor fellows who have fallen into the
trap of hoping to help themselves by
standing on the backs of their fell
low workers. l still believe they will
join with us when they understand
the folly of their doings. But if they
continue we will not spare them.
Organizations First Task.
Some workers, good, honest, sim
cere men use the argument that since
this place is not a steady place, and
with SO many suckers around, it is
impossible to organize. / say that
is wrong. Wherever men work for a
living, they should be organized for
that is their only protection against
the greed Of the boss.
Our wages are so poor we barely
make living. Yet l can safely say
without exaggeration that our boss
makes 70 per cent profit on every
machine that is turned out. In the
face of such facts, why do we hest
tate to demand better conditions and
higher wages?
Mr.. Himoff drives us so success
fully that we have not even taken
a moment to stop to figure out what
this rushing is getting for us. If we
stand together we have nothing to
lose in our fight for better conditions.
Jobs like this one we can always find.
Our task as workers is to unite to
better our conditions in the shop
where we work no matter where it is.
Time to Act.
Up to the present we have shown
that we are together in sympathy, but
words will not get us anything-we
must combine this sympathetic under
standing with action and we will sue
coed.
A meeting of our shop will be called
in the near future and we must all
attend. We will get together to lay
our plans for organization. Every
worker in the shop will be invited.
A notice of this meeting will be print
ed in the DAILY WORKER.
Each and every man of the Morey
Company shop should be a reader of
the DAILY WORKER, the only news
paper in the English language in the
United States that fights for the IL
beration Of the working class. You
will begin to understand the role of
worker in society when you read
this paper. You spend your good
money for which you have worked so
hard on newspapers that help the
bosses exploit workers. You should
use that money for the paper that
voices your struggles. Every word in
that paper is devoted to your in
terests.
Watch for the call of the meeting
in our paper, the DAILY WORKER.