The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-03
Wages-Di Dividends Not
Enough by Far to Still
Unrest of the Workers
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the boss class in fearful that the workers
taking its charity seriously LOOK! say the expIoers,
its employees. Another distribution of million cash
made among 5000 employees, while third distribution was
made of another million among 2200 employees Such out
bursts OF fake philanthropy occur Internationally and the
robbe press always quick to give each recurring instance
considerable publicity is supposed to be good content
ment saVe for the restless wage slave.
One financial writer frankly confesses that the object of
profit sharing and WagesdVdends is to make the workers
'oontsnted and thus prevent unrest and strikes"
He offers this great discovery Yet it is fact that
Communists have always pointed out.
This employers fear that the workers not contented
zaton drives may be forced by the rank and file upon lag
gard labor OFFICIALS also at the bottom of other sops
being planned for the workers. like the old age pension
schemes being studied by capitaIisms experts
Working class unrest is not greatly affected let alone
appeased by the distribution of Take the
of THE Fair the big State Street department
Chicago endsh expoer of youth labor that recently dis
trbuted large among its underpaid employees.
First not cent went to any empoye that had not been
with the firm for at least five years This Immediately eImi
mated the great of workers. boys and girls just of
school, employed at meager wages who must be look
out for something better" they thrown upon their
resources when they longer depend upon partial sup
port at home.
Second, 1.-THE reward therefore, goes to selected few
the slave drivers the superintendent the managers the
floor walkers the heads Of departments must be salts
fled with their station and proud of it, they WELD the lash
OF oppression over the youth labor assigned to their
tender mercies.
Yet of captaiss experts compelled to admit that
the wages-divdends distributed by employers pacies
OF unrest do not average than $50 of $40 per year.
which it is admitted is mot enough accomplish any
notable purpose Especially among the socaed radicals in
factory such distribution must remain without effect
The sop of few dollars, not enough for short
vacations expenses especially the
workers they view the colossal dividends distributed by
the corporations employing them Take Montgomery, Ward
Co., which parallel to The Fair" in the employment
Of youth labor 1t reports that June the largest
tor that month in the company history The total was
$143o960 increase Of 1866 per cent over May and also
gain OF 1867 per cent over June, 1924"
For the month of May the major railroads report net
uifn O.
in May 1924 big increase spite of the poverty walls of
the transportation interests and their demands for wage c
all along the line.
The earnings reported by the Standard Oil Trust and
other great trusts are higher than ever.
Even the duIest worker cannot heIp but becon,e ac
quaned with these facts Beside the colossal profits of the
great corporations the distributed by few
employers are hardly visible.
The robber employer safeguards his plumber He does
out the smallest amount he to the worker in wages
AS labor awakens and this fact the class
struggle sharpens, the final conflict draws nearer when
All PoWer! must shift from the capitalist Dictatorship TO
the Proletarian Dictatorship There capitalist conces
sion that satisfy the workers the last victorious
struggle for power that heraIds the Communist dawn