The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-07
When Bosses
Call a Strike
BY JACK sTAcHEL.


THERE have been many strikes in
4 the City of New York in the past
few months. There are many strikes
going on at the present time. There
have been strikes of the fur workers,
the shoe workers, the iron workers,
the cloakmakers, the capmakers and
the subway and elevated workers. but
we know that in all these strikes the
bosses were fighting the strikers tooth
and nail and were very anxious to get
the. men and women strikers back on
the job.
Now there comes the Eagle Pencil
Company, employing some 1000 work
ers,. and issues a strike call in the
name of committee of safety" The
following is the text of the call Issued
to the employees:
ITO THE EMPLOYEES OF THE
EAGLE PENCIL COMPANY
your attention is called to the
low and inadequate wages paid you
for work While you give; your life
starving for your family in the sum-
mer heat and the winter cold the
owners of this firm live like swine
on the fat of the land and on your
self-sacrifice and sweat Of your
brow.
Your wages are rs per cent be-
low any other factories and the
foremen's wages are 125 per cent
less. Convince yourself by applying
for work at the other factories and
see how you are being treated and
deprived of a decent livelihood.
Men in the rubber room, apply to
A. W. Faber, Newark, or Ebenhard
Faber Rubber Works, Newark, or
Weldon Rubber Works. Men in the
machine shop, considering that ordi-
nary bricklayers get $12 day, your
wages are nil. Girls making boxes,
apply at any box factory in New
York. People in the pencil factory,
apply to E. Faber, Williamsburg, or
Joseph Dixon Company, Jersey City,
or General Pencil Company, Hobo
ken, or Richard Best in Newark.
an addition to the foregoing ad-
vice, strike is hereby called begin
ming Monday, a. m, August 2.
Emphasis mine.-J. s.
COMMITTEE ON SAFETY"
This bit of advice and the call to
strike was distributed on Tuesday
July 20, at the factory gates.
Active Nucleus in the Factory.
The reason for all this is the exist
ence of a live and active nucleus In
the Eagle Pencil Company plant. The
nucleus has been issuing shop bulle
tin, thru which it reached great pro
portion of the workers and developed
a tremendous influence over the work
ers. The nucleus is growing in mem
bership and is extending its activity
Altho for a time a shop committee
formed on a wrong basis almost en-
dangered the existing of the nucleus
the nucleus was able in time to make
the necessary changes, and the bosses
have thus far been unable to find ouI
who any of the members of the nu
cleus are. They have seen the nucleus
thru its raising of the correct issues
in the shop gain the confidence
of many of the workers and they were
helpless in the face of this, unable Il
put their hands on those responsible
Old Trick Of Provocatlon.
In issuing the leafet or call to the
employees the company has used al
old method Of provocation. The nu
cleus is on the job and will expose
the provocation of the bosses. 1t will
be of no avail to the company. On
the contrary, the workers will learr
to see that the nucleus consists o.
responsible workers who know all tn,
tricks of the bosses. Some time age
| wrote an article in The DAILY
WORKER, More Caution in Our M
cleus Work" warned the Comrades
that in many OF the plants the bosses
viii try to provoke strikes in order Il
expose the militant elements and FIRE
them. In fact, in the Hays Hunt Du
rant auto plant in Elizabethport We
were confronted with the same prob
lem and we warned the workers in the
bulletin issued by the nucleus. Oul
nuclei must always be on the watchouI
for these provocations.
obJeet'to Eagle Lesfiet.
To begin with, we can say that the
way the Eagle Pencil Company tried
TO put their scheme over was too raw
for even ths-=lnost unlnitiated and
backward workers. Calling the work