The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-09


are interested in the welfare of the
working class, or that the numerous
bosses organizations raise the stand
ard of living Of the working class, let
him recall the following facts
Let the worker recall that the steel
corporation, with it's investment in
workers safety, pays wages Of only
A cents an hour; that the steel trust
will not tolerate union, operating
thoro and complete spy system to
discover and fire employees who are
advocating a union whereby the work
ers may raise the standard of living
conditions.
Let his recall that the Pullman COM
pany, notwithstanding its athletic
park, has recently increased the hours
Of labor and lowered the wages; that
the Western Electric company, paying
wage of 80 cents an hour and in
some cases lower, has, within the last
six months thrown 10000 workers on
the street, jobless, and in many cases,
hired back the same workers at
shorter pay.
Backbone of Open Shop.
Another point must not be forgot
ten, these corporations which are in
the forefront of the employees well
fare" movement, are the backbone of
the open shop in this country. The
Curtis Publishing company of Phila-
delphia, which boasts Of its modern
buildings and recreation rooms, is the
record union smasher-together with
the Baldwin locomotive works-in
Philadelphia. The publishers of the
Saturday Evening Post, preaching the
blessings of the profit system, hire
young girls at SIS week to do the
bulk of their work, and ruthlessly
break efforts of the workers to organ
ize for a living wage. And 30 it is
with all the large corporations which
pirate about workers welfare.
Communists for Workers.
There is an organization in Amer
lea which is interested in the welfare
Of the working class, and there is an
organization which is promoting the
welfare of the working class youth of
this country. These are the Workers
| (Communist) Party and the Young
Workers (Communist) League. And
strangely enough the employers who
rant about workers welfare seem to
be extremely jealous OF these two or
CARNATIONS.
The reaction of the employers to
the Communist campaigns in the in
/ terests of the workers reveals the
hypocrisy, and the true purpose of the
bosses workers welfare bunk.
PIutes for Child Labor.
While the Workers Party and the
Young Workers League were waging
a strenuous campaign not only for
the passage Of the amendment to en-
power congress to prohibit child la
Dor, but for the governmental main
tenance of the working class children
of school age as well, John Glenn,
/ secretary of the manufacturers asso-
citation, and editor of the Manufactur-
ers' News which emits workers well
fare bunk, was stumping the country
and spending millions of dollars to
defeat the child labor amendment and
keep the child slaves toiling in Amer
ica's factories. And this same assoc
citation was at the same time spread
ing propaganda against the Commun-
lists because they were fighting to
overthrow the profit system and for
the seizure of power by the working
class, after which there will be no
child labor.
The bosses like associations for
children when these associations can
pass laws. as in Delaware, forcing the
teacher to read FIVE verses of the
bible daily in the public schools, and
dope the minds of the children about
a heavenly life after death while
their parents are starving at home.
What Bosses Like.