The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-25
Organization
Meetings
(Artlele 2.
BY JAY LoVESTONE.

THE National Industrial Conference
4 Board, one of the leading agen-
cies Of the employing class, has hailed
the publication of company shop pa
pers as an idea MADE In America"
This star of expert advisers to our
leading explOiters maintains that the
company shop paper fuldlls a most
important task In the relationship be-
tween the employer and his workers.
Capitalists Also Use Shop Papers.
1t is no accident that the FIRST COM
pany shop paper was published in the
United States in 1890. At this time
America was making its debut on the
imperiahst stage. Then gigantic In
dustrial organizations in which the
personal element was being reduced
20 a minimum or even entirely oblit-
Grated, were being developed at q
rapid pace. The company shop paper
was launched by the bosses at this
time in order to emphasize the so
called human element from the en-
ploying class viewpoint. 1t is rather
laughable from more than one view
point that the first company shop pa
per in the United States was pub
lished by the National Cash Register
Co. It was called the Factory News.
The World War gave tremendous
impetus to the development of the
company shop papers. 1t Is said that
there are now being published ap-
proximately one thousand OF these
employing class factory organs. This
group Is entirely distinct from the
large number OF house organs" pub
lished by manufacturers to sell their
wares.
The shop Psper-A Basic ProIetarlan
Weapon.
The various sections of the Commu-
mist International have made vigor-
GUS use OF the workers shop papers.
The All-Union Communist Party $50
Wet Russia) and the Communist Party
Of Germany have set the pace in the
establishment Of successful shop pa
pers of, by and for the workers. To
day practically every Communist
Party has number o papers gotten
out by shop nuclei.
Our own Party has already made
fair beginning IN tire publication Of
factory nuclei paperJ. Tho the twenty
FIVE papers now b sing gotten out in
the various big gctories turnout the
country by our shop nuclei Is only
small beginning yet we already have
7ough experieAcs with these valuable
Ell pans Of the class struggle to de-
EIpnloe ain Important lessons for our
um9sI ana y leld. At this moment it
SUM au4 90 most backward districts
ous az, the weakest districts po-
nd organizationally, which
= have one or more virile shop
-pers.
Contents Of shop Papers.
Let us examine the main line of con-
tents In our shop papers. We will
analyze some of our leading factory
nuclei papers.
/. Immediate Factory Problems.
All of the shop nuclei papers con-
centrate on immediate factory prob
lens. Such basic, elementary ques-
lions as wage cuts, unsanitary work
ing conditions, the speed-up system,
industrial spies, long hours, INSULT
Gent pay, accident hazards, and the
right to organize are hammered home
very effectively in all of the workers
papers prepared by our shop nuclei.
Thus we quote from the Rivet-"A
Paper Of the Pullman Workers, by the
Pullman Workers and for the Pull
man Workers" at Pullman,
in the Chicago district:
Heavy Work for Very Low Pay"
"Laborers in Pullman do heavy
work dragging steel and iron around
for nine long hours each day, and all
they get is only 1924 per day. We
would like to see the bosses do this
work, and find out how they like it.
Such ridiculously low wages are paid