The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15
Il And IS HOURS
A DAY SLAVERY;
CRUEL SPEED-UP
Even Workers Glee
Club Is Banned
(By Worker Correspondent

Our city is under the complete
control Of the open shop manufac-
curers. They rule US with an iron
hand. In the plants of the Amer
can Wire & Steel Co., the John
son Motor Co., the John Evansville
Co., the Chicago Hardware Foundry
Co., etc, the workers of Waukegan
md vicinity are Shaving long hours
sor miserable wages. For them the
hour day at present is just beau
iful dream, for they work from 9
70 II hours during the day and on
light shifts from 10 to Is hours.
Failing to pay US living wage, the
employers naturally compel US to
make up for the low wages by work
ing long hours.
The night shifts are longer than
he day shifts because like all Grim
nails, the American Wire & Steel
TO-, the Johnson Motor Co., the John
Iansville Co., and others are try
ng to hide from the world their
lark deed Of slowly killing US by
ong and strenuous hours of work
n order to prevent US from getting
ogether and rebelling against these
onditions the open shop companies
ave agreed among themselves to
establish and maintain spy and
blacklist system not only in the
hops but extending to our HON IS,
,ublic and social life. Anyone who
ares to talk unionism or to object
the rotten conditions in the shops
5 Immediately reported, blacklisted
end fired. We are prohibited to read
3apers which we would like to read;
We dare not belong to organizations
f our own choice; we are not free
attend meetings which we would
ike to attend. The spies of the open
hop exploiters follow US into. our
ONES, sneak into our mail, infest
he organizations to which we be-
iong, attend public meetings and
AIRY back their reports to the spy
apartments of the open shop COM
anies which penalize US. Recently
everal men were fired by the
american Wire & Steel Co. because
hey were reported having attended
a picnic given for the benefit of the
striking miners. The men had to
plead and to promise not to attend
,uch affairs any more before they
we're taken back. Just a few weeks
Ego members of the Swedish Glee
Club were prohibited by the officials
f the American Wire & Steel Co.
10 sing at the picnic of the Wauke-
ran Cooperative Society at which
'iagnus Johnson spoke. The pay
master of the American Wire &
Steel Co. was noticed at the meeting
# the International Labor Defense
arranged to demand freedom to hold
pen air meetings by labor organ
cations in Waukegan. The pay
iaster, champion of free
speech" He was sent to spy upon
the workers and scare them from
tending future meetings of this
lind.
Must Have Own Political Party.
The election machinery, the city
government, the courts and police
are securely in the hands of the
steel trust and other open shop
manufacturers. The workers of
Waukegan have not rallied yet
around political party of their
own. The union officials of the
American Federation of Labor are
playing into the hands of the bosses
by preventing the organization of a
labor party and advising the work
ers to support the good men" of
the republican or democratic par
ties, which are subsidized by the
steel trust and other capitalist ex-
ploiters. The union officials are
reaching collaboration between Ia
Dor and capital. The socialist party
seconds this policy and is dead in
Waukegan. The workers of Wauke.
IAN have tried to experiment by
alecting to the city office one from
heir own midst only to find tina,
an individual not backed by the or.
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