The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-25
Sacred" Government
Again Applies the Lash
To It's Postal Slaves
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the U. S. Post Office Department that very
opposed unsuccessuIy wage increase for the postal
sucking capitalist tas<master. Because the workers
few pennies in wages the first increase in years. the
more Of or so an ha an sse o PIT OTns
John H. Bartlett the first assistant postmaster general
The worst exploitation in the whole government exists
in the postal service wonder is that there has not been
open rebellion The postal workers have been content
however with congressional Investigations that resulted in
little but the recording OF the terrible conditions under which
the slaves of the government toll.
The most unbelievable and depIorabIe sanitary cond-
ons have been exposed The use Of stop watches speed
up methods and time studies" specifically forbidden in
other governmental departments where the workers bet
ter organized have been revealed One worker has been
pted against another with the understanding that spying
activities are the basis Of promotions and wage allowances
workers in the postal department are kept at their
tasks at break neck speed In the railway mail service
has been shown that the work required has gradually in
creased during the last II years.
This is wildly brought forth by the fact that while
has been 200 per cent increase in the volume of mail
handled there actually fewer number Of railway postal
clerks in the service now than in 1914.
These conditions if continued as they will be- must find
their sequel in greater struggles the part of the postal
workers. forcing them build militant unions place of the
loose and bootcng organizations they have the present
time.
They will be forced occasions resort to the strike
the railroad workers. and labor in other industries
Then the whole capitalist press will howl with horror
that the employees of the sacred should
work. that the carrying of the mails should be crippled
This press will urge legislation such has already been
put the statute books forbddng these public
to strike. Heated propaganda the in every rail-
strike will poured FORTH arguing that the CARRYING
of the mails must not be nterfered with The government
has the to force its postal slaves into the army
under threat of martial law and trial for treason
workers break their strike This oppression
Of the functions of the capitalist state carrying the
wishes of the great capitalists
The great masses of postal workers and other public
employees do not understand this the present
they will learn thru the misery forced upon them in their
daily work. misery that they must carry home their
families, into all the phases of their lives.
The demand of the taskmasters head of the post
office department. for increase of five per in work
turned OUT should meet with immediate response.
essenng of effort the part of the postal workers
be the reply Labor must demand increased wages
shorter workday in the postal service everywhere ese
But labor will realize its goal until this slave SYSTEM
that calls for the last of effort wage workers.
is swept away until Communism supersede cap
itaIism. The postal workers will learn that too