The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-17

tinuing the work of organizing
union of chairworkers in Gardner
begun so successfully on the Goth Of
March, the workers now have regu-
lar union meetings every week and
have applied for a charter in the
United Brotherhood Of Carpenters
and Joiners. They are hopeful that
their request for affiliation will be
soon granted that they may take their
place in the ranks of the strongest
unit in the American Federation of
Labor.
At a meeting held OF the 18th of
May in the Franco-American Hall
Gardeners very hopeful report was
given by the financial secretary
During the past week" ran the re-
port despite the brow beating tactics
Of the bosses, and in spite of the fact
that our organizer can only devote
one day week to the work in this
eitv. we have trebled our membership
during the last five days. The sup
erintendent of the Haywood Plant
has been calling all the workers
whom he suspects of being in favor
of a union into the office and threat
ening them with the loss of their
jobs. But the workers have
been we'll warned and they can lie
to the boss as well as any boss can
lie to them.
Fool The Boss.
The workers have formed COM
mittee composed of delegates from
each of the twenty factories in the
city, and this committee is proving
its value as the real weapon for or
ganizing in the machine industries.
Every week the committee meets
with the executive and reports on the
work done in the factories during the
week, and every week they turn in
more and more application cards for
membership in the union. Because
of the fact that only two persons
have access to the lists of memb4-
ship and that the strength of the or
ganization is not made public at the
membership meetings, the bosses are
crazy to know Just what strength the
workers really have. They have sent
in two stoolpigeons to find out what
is going on but they have had to go
away no wiser than they were at the
beginning.
The workers who have joined the
union so far are almost all American
born workers. and it is due TO the eff
forts of these hard working exploited
factory workers that the union has
begun to grow as it has. The work
ers of Gardner have proven the theory
that the working class can and does
throw up its own leadership in time
Of struggle provided that the leaders
Of the working class can give them
work TO do. The workers Of Gardner
are continuing by their activities the
theory that the American working
masses have been bought off by high
wages, self-ow1ed cottages, and auto
mobiles. The workers Of Gardner, as
do all wage-workers in large scale in
dustry, replied to the pessimists, by
getting down to work and forming
a union They say that it
may be true that they are bought off
but that an average wage of Sis a
week does not look like that TO theri.
The workers Of Gardner
know their own business best ard
are pushing on to the formation Of a
powerful union in the chair city to
protect their interests.
Some Efficiency Expert.
At the union meeting held in Card
ner on Wednesday 18th of May talk
was given by Organizer Murdoch on
the methods Of Banking Capital in
Industry, as illustrated in the case
OF the Haywood Wakefield Co. since
that firm has passed into the control
Of Henry Hornblower, influential
Boston banker. In the discussion
that followed one old worker who has
been employed in the Haywood con-
Germ for eight years gave the follow
ing story.