The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-08
Big Bosses on Job Only
Two Hours Daily, Admits
Kept Financial Editor
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

EXCESSIVE
long hours that great Industrial capitalists and fnan-
Gers according all the rules of success propaganda
supposed to toll at their desks
The played is this effect the cap
aist tolls long hours therefore the wage worker in MILL
mine and factory should be content to remain his
chine the day thru
One financial writer however, in order relieve the
monotony of his daily department. up the discussion Of
the seVen-day week. and it has led him into ntermnabIe pitt
falls. He has been compelled to criticize the long work.
week for the wage workers the time revealing
of the short Workdays of capitalist executives who hold high
official positions and have not yet decided to retire 100
per cent parasites Here of the facts
Gary corpora
ton does work long
schwab, during
years worked hours"
during his John Rockefeller
slave to long hours. Neither Andrew Carnegie
sprung promi.
thru purchase Of the gigantic Dodge automobile
WORKS ABNoRMALLY FEW HOURS FEWER THAN ALMOST ANY
OTHER IMPORTANT Many
only three Other
every year. including always
a stay Europe.
leading partners twal bankers)
Julius Roenwad Of Sears Roebuck Co, is shorthou
a long-hour ma
1t good for the steel workers to know that when Gary
and Schwab urging the 2hour day for steel workers.
they contened themselves with dropping their
offices an hour or two each day. when they not enjoy
ing themselves in Europe. 1t leaks that "John D."
did not himself in building trust aItho large
week in order that the profits of John d. may diminish
It is especially good for the great armies Of office
who toll excessively long hours in the Largest mail order
house in the world to know that their multi-iIonaire
boss, Rosenwald, takes things easy
1t should be incentive to the workers in these
gories to unite their unorganzed numbers and battle for
little leisure for themselves. m
Workers the argument for short hours for the
capitalist to apply equally well in demanding the
day for themselves The great employer says he "can do
and better work in two hours than his predecessor of
so years ago could do in tWevenot because
bigger but because he has and better tools
with which to do his work." 1aaa
Thus the boss is not adverse using all the modern
appliances invented by mechanical genius shorten his
workday His business organized that prac-
tcaIy all work be soughed off whe collar slaves"
who nothing than wage workers who refuse
admit it.
The employer who gIoats over his own two-hour
day, with plenty of time for the golf links is the
poye who makes patriotic speeches the banquets of
Chamber of Commerce and argues that the eghthour day
is too short for his wage slaves They should work and
twelve hours day. The fact that the increased
machinery has added enormously the productive power
the wage worker coupling growing unemployment with
long workday does trouble the boss Unemployment is
the employers best ally in the war on labor.
The myth of the Woodworking boss is thus exploded
Back of the twohour employer revealed clearer
ALL yet live richly off the fruits of industry This also
growing army under capitalism Riches poverty; both
bred under capitalism Only the workers change
this condition by ending the rule of capitalism. Only the
Communists lead in the struggle for this change.