The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-26
PACKERS SHOW
VISITORS ROSY
SIDE OF YARDS
Guests NeUer See Dark,
Damp, Filthy Rooms
BY J. N.
Worker Correspondent for Trybuna
Robotnicza,
Ry ]. N.

worker correspondent for Trybuna
Robotnicza.
The fool barons invite people from
all over the world to visit and din
spect" their world-renowned packing
houses in Chicago. Every day many
stockyards. These visitors are taken
only to those places where Il is dry
and they are mighty few. When some
"big fish" come to see the slaughter
houses they decorate his path with
flowers to give him pleasant view.
1t is in this way the packers advertise
their business.
rheumatism Workers Reward.
They never show the visitors the
dark basements-the "holes where
| there are no windows, where 1t is
cold, dark and damp all the year
round Those places are worse than
hell. There are workers there work
ing-working hard-day by day losing
their health-getting rheumatism.
The conditions under which the work
ers work are terrible.
The exploitation of the workers Is
unlimited. They make from SIS to
| 500 per week. Capitalist economists
tell us that the average worker in
| the United States is making S2b per
week. Come to the stockyards and
you will find out how much we are
making. But this is not all. They
force us to buy their stocks, at the
same time peddling such lies, that by
buying stocks we become partners of
the slaughter house bosses. They
know what they are doing. They know
that some workers will believe them
and will buy these stocks and will
work harder and keep away from
unions.
| They will not ask for more money
and will not think of strikes.
| The bonus system is another way
the packers have of squeezing more
blood and sweat out Of the workers.
Workers, working under the bonus
system do the work of two or three
workers and get about $3.50 to $500
per week bonus. Some workers do
not make more than fifteen cents a
day bonus. Is this not unlimited ex-
ploitation?
Can worker making SIS to $50 per
week support family? or course
not! The workers family lives in
misery always on the point of starva-
ton. Mothers leave their children
and together with their husbands go
to work. There is nobody to take
care of the children. With breaking
hearts mothers leave their children at
six o'clock in the morning and go to
work. Those who doubt these facts
can come down to the stockyards sec
ton of Chicago and see for them
selves.
Bosses Modest Women.
Women working the yards" make
less than the men. They make from
$14 to SIS a week. Nice looking wo-
men get the job first. Older women
get the most unpleasant and hardest
work. Women who allow the bosses
to "flirt" with them get the better
jobs and a little more money. Wo-
men who refuse the Attentions" of
the bosses-refuse to "go out" with
the bosses-are fired, regardless of
the fact they may have been work
ing in the yards" for many years.
1t is not surprising that workers
here are dissatisfied with conditions
and are thinking of organizing into a
union. Here every thought of or
ganization is suppressed. The boss
es have organized their own union to
fool the workers. The workers be-
long to the union, do not have to
pay dues, get paper free, and elect"
representatives to a conference board
all this does not cost a penny to
the workers. 1t is a scheme of the
bosses to stop any attempts on the
part of the workers to organize into
real working class organizations.
Fellow worker, brother, sister, how
long will we permit this? Arise! Or.
ganize your own union and fight for
your liberation from the oppression OF
the food barons.
NOTE:-The editors of the Pc.
fish Trybuna Robotnicza request
that Polish workers send in their
stories Of conditions in the yards"
which will be published in the Pc.
lish paper. Their address is Try
buna Robotnicza, 1113 West Wash.
ington Blvd, Chicago, Ill.