The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16
STAND BY THE |. r. T.
STRIKERS!
To the Men and Women Who Use
the New York Subway and
Elevated!

NEW YORK-The Workers Com
munist) Party has issued a statement
on the traction strike here which is in
part as follows:
The subway and elevated men to
whom are entrusted the safety and
lives of New York's millions, are strIk-
ing for a decent wage, for shorter
hours and for release from the intoIer-
able slavery of the so-called Company
Union" of the marlborough Rapid
Transit company.
LONG HOURS, LOW WAGES
The slavery to which the traction
workers have been subject is neredi-
BILE. Motormen work a minimum of Sc
hours without time lost in broken
shifts. The station men work "a hours
"a 12-hour day and 7-day week
at time when workers in many in
dustries are winning the 4o-hour week.
Such long hours are menace to the
good health of the men upon whom
the lives and safety of all New York's
population depends.
Wages are miserable. Motormen
during the first years get 50 cents an
hour and switchmen only SO cents,
while stationmen secure from al cents
to 43 cents per hour and other en-
ployes still less. On the basis of a
decent work week of "a hours, this
makes $3o.36 to $500 per week for
motormen and S25.52 for switchmen
yet go per cent of these workers are
married and over 20 per cent have
children to support.
The company union which they have
is no union. 1t is an organization
formed by the company, controlled by
its officials and used to stifle all pro-
test by the workers. This reptile
company union" as the men call it,
has been depressing them for ten
years.
The Tammany city government,
which since HyIsn's administration
has been ever more solidly in the
hands of the traction interests, will
perhaps not dare, on the eve of an
election to raise the fare but is already
planning an Indirect subsidy in the
form of remission of taxes which will
subsidize the railroad company at the
expense OF the mass of the inhabitants
Of New York City.
Instead, the Tammany city govern
nent plans subsidies, tax remlssions
and fare Increases, permits the i'm
portation of gunner and the entrust-
Ing of the lives Of the New York City
population to inexperienced and dan
gerous criminal elements" brought in
crush the traction workers OF New
York City. II even uses the city police
in a shameless manner to protect
these gunner and terrorize striking
workers.
Men and women Of New York, you
who must use New York's subways,
elevated and street csrsl Back the
striking traction workers In their fight
for decent wage.
Support them In their struggle TO
destroy the ensiavIng company union
and substitute a real union OF the
workers.
Back them in their demand for such
hours as will not endanger the lives Of
the passengers entrusted to them and
such wages as will secure and main.
tain competent service.
No raise In farei
Not a cent for subsidy
Organized Iaborl Support your fellow
workers on strike. Demand that the
traction system along with the other
public utilities be taken over by the
,ity under system Of municipal own
srship and operation with workers
'ontroI, for the benefit Of the people Of
New York.
Out with the dangerous criminal eie-
nents who have been Imported TO
break the strike and who endanaer the
ives Of New York's inhabitants.
No police intimidation Of the strik-
srsl
Boycott the seab linesl
Protest to the city against the use Of
he police and the Importation Of seabs
and criminals.
Show your solidarity with the strlk.
,rsl
Support the strike
Workers (communist) Party Of
America, District Executive
Committee. William w. Vein.
stone, General Sec'y. Address
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