The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-19
Bosses Consider Old
Age Pension AS. Sop
to the Working Class
BY ]. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the growing discomfort of American labor finds
echo In the propaganda barrage laid down promising
old age PENSIONS of the best bats to hold
dissatisfied toIers to keep them conentedy their jobs
pttanoe exc bare existence during their declining
years in lieu Of going to the arnshouse.
Big employers grant concessions labor unless
forced to do This shown in every strike for better
conditions the shorter Worday and increased wages when
the profit takers put up the most stubborn resistance
Some times the employer tries to anticipate discomfort,
especially save off the demand of workers for organza
ton, with slight concessions
One of the best examples Of this was the so-caIIed
abolition with great flare of trumpets thru the cap
taist press of the 12hour workday in the steel mills But
this only after the heroic struggle of the steel work.
in 1872 and rising protest against steel mill slavery
under States Steel Corporation tyranny that swept
the whole American working class.
An increasing army of child workers, specialization and
speedngup in industry with the increased of machinery
has gradually the deadne of employment Today
the worker scrapped As years of age If earlier with
as little conjunction as the dumping of DID, worn-out
tw accident that the "open shop" Chicago Tribune
recently published cartoon on its first page urging em-
poyers consider the question of old age pensions before
the workers. themselves in desperation, took things into
their own hands.
There is reasoning behind the pampering that is being
bestowed by various capitalist interests on the National
Conference of Social Workers gathered in Denver Colo
Some of the actual conditions unearthed are as fol-
lows superannuated wage relieved to any
considerable by the pensions provided by railroads.
industrial concerns states and municipalities faterna
organizations trade unions; one out of three
persons reaching the age becomes dependent upon
charity or relatives 5000 applicants for assistance
Pennsylvania law showed that they had more
than an average OF SIS weekly turnout their les 90 per
cent OF the applicants nativeborn American citizens
and 80 per cent had been married and reared families their
children however, being unable to support them because
they too were in the clutches of pover that while Penn
syvana has per capita wealth of 81 posses
SONS OF the 5000 applicants showed average wealth of
$23.64 per person.
These conditions that unlimited propaganda about
the blessings to the working class of the ve radio and
other boosted Injuries that every working class family is
supposed enjoy, making
ing numbers of working class families conscious Of their lot
The hard-boed putocrats and their press will attack
old age pensions" Boshevsm. This remedial legislation
has already been declared Unconstitutional" in Pennsy
van Just as the United States Supreme Court declared the
antchd labor amendment against the proud provisions of
the fundamental law Of this capitalist land.
But old age pensions" and lot of other sops will be
thrown to the working class in the days come in an eff
fort to divert from its real task seizure of power and
the Inauguration of the Proetaran Dictatorship Pensions
cannot lift the workers of wage slavery Only the triumph
of the Soviet Revolution can do that r