The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-21
PRINTERS HIT
SCAB IL MONDE
Rap Socialist Paper
for Anti-Unionism
Continued from Pare One

CoBClHhed from rage One
eanized for? To b. The laughing
stock of II Nuovo Monde. which de
family and absolutely refused TO
obey tho union order thereby rnaw-
ing at the very basic principle Of
labor organization Of course not.
AS socialist publication II Nupvo
Monde should have been a living
'V7~o'a Of fairness IN dealing with
and uphoding a working class union.
Sc the union reluctantly declared a
strike This was on Friday noon,
Nov. 2, 1923. The following Mon
dav Nov. 5, the strike was settled.
and the man accused of being a fas-
cist, in order to avoid troubles for
his fellow workers, willingly re-
nounced to his right to work in the
composing room of II Nuovo Monde.
Saturday and Sunday, Nov. and d,
the paper was set and printed,
thanks to the help of scabs. The
union printers went back to work
the same day the strike was settled.
Propose Wage Cut.
In the evening, Hon. Vincenzo
Vacirca, socialist, ex-member of the
Italian parliament and president of
the Avanti News Company, which
owns II Nuovo Monde, called all the
'7'inters to a special meeting, and
he made the following proposition
to them-to work for $40 week
under the wage scale stipulated in
the contract between II Nuovo
Monde and the Italian Typo
graphical Union No. 261, no pay
whatsoever for overtime, no extra
pay for nightwork, Sundays or legal
holidays, no extra pay, not even a
cent, for the foreman, who assumes
the responsibility for the efficient
management of the composing room.
The printers told him that they
would discuss the matter at their
next chapel meeting and then give
him the answer. And the answer
-~ "NT"" naturally. How could
they have accepted such humiliat-
ing proposition? 1t would have
IDeant a death-blcw to the labor
union, which took years and years
of struggles and sacrifices to build.
And such blow was to be struck
by a socialist institution. Do not
the socialists of II Nuovo Monde
ght for labor unions? What
would the union printers say if the
management of Daily Worker would
put the following proposition up to
them: You are receiving, say, a
wage of $65 week for 39-hx,r
week, while the American news
papers, which are richer than us,
are paying SOS week for a 45-hour
week. Well, then, we are willing to
pay you $40 below the American
scale, no pay whatsoever for over
time, no extra pay for nightwork,
Sundays or legal holidays, and no
extra pay for the foreman. If you
do not accept our conditions, con-
slider yourself discharged this very
minute. Is this, we ask you, cor
sistent with the postulates of the
socialist party, of which II Nuovo
Monde is mouthpiece? And to
think that II Nuovo Monde did this
same very thing!
Fires Workers.
So, on Saturday, Nov. 10, 1928,
each and every printer--with the
exception of one who is scab, and,
sorry to say, a member Of the social
ist party--was discharged, notwith-
standing the fact that they be-
longed to the union, which has a
contract legally signed by II Nuovo
Monde. Are labor union contracts
becoming scraps of paper for II
Nuovo Monde, too?
The result now is that union men
are walking the sidewalks, while
scabs, imported by II Nuovo Monde
from Buffalo, Chicago and Pitts
burgh, have taken their places.
II Nuovo Monde has written lot
about the Italian Typographical
Union. 1t has even stated that the
union has not given the newspaper
the help it needed and deserved as
bonafide labor newspaper. The
people Of II Nuovo Monde do not
tell the truth, and they know it.
The union has done everything
within its power to help that insti-
tuition. Through its help, II Nuovo
Monde has saved thousands of dol
lars in expenses. Not only that.
Two years ago, the Italian Union
voted a donation of about $3.50 in
favor of II Nuovo Monde. The men,
bers of II Nuovo Monde chapel, who
have been discharged without being
paid in full, donated more than two
weeks nav. bought shares of the