The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-12
TRY NEW FAKE
COLLABORATION
SCHEME ON men
Leighton Restaurants
Are Exposed
(By a Worker Correspondent

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Los Angeles, the biggest catering
center on the Pacific Coast, is boast
ing of its prosperity" The Hotel
and Restaurant Mems Journal just
published an article about the in
creased business in the eating in
dustry illustrated by statistics that
more and more restaurants and no.
tells are opening daily and doing a
greater volume of business. And,
from their point Of view, they have
something to be proud CT, because
the eating profession in this city of
angels and freedom" has enorm-
ously increased, only, naturally, to
the advantage Of those who, by the
grace OF the existing order, have
the means to enter and comfortably
relax at their meals in the leading
hotels and rcstaurs nts where first
class food is served, while the rem
nants Of the food served in the din
ing rooms are distributed among the
workers and walters of the ostab-
ishment, who, by their sweat and
blood. prepare and serve the we'll
named courses printed on the menus,
but receive the most miserable wages
ever paid to a human for 10 or Il
hours of work, as the case may be.
It is worth mentioning the fact that
most of the so-called first-class res
taurants and hotels maintain seDa-
rate kitchens for their employees end
abide by the rule to "save the
waste" so the "stiffs" who make
the stuff get the dirty throw-away
grub that the patrons have left over
In the class "B' houses situated
on the east side Of the town, and
mostly patronized by workers. con-
ditions are just as rotten. and those
few dumps that do display union
cards, one would take them to be
a little better. but you will soon con-
vince yourself of the fact that in
those 'mad-houses." where the
workers have to rush themselves to
death, conditions are Just as bad,
especially when one asks for a job
IS the case happened to be with me,
I asked for union conditions and
was Immediately shown the door,
being naturally called down for be-
ing a. damned "Red." These houses
display their union cards only for
the convenience that it serves and
-lso because Of the welfare and the
benefit that the business agent of
The union derives from it. These
gentlemen (the business agents. re-
port to their respective unions that
everything is going along fine and
that their work is progressing land
if any member of the. union dares
question the business agent he is
Immediately labeled as a "Red and
Communist" as it has become the
tradition among al good and true
end loyal union members that one
dare not question the autocratic
tights Of the business agents. A
union members business is that he
rays his dues and helps keep up an
organization serving the best inter-
ests of some pie-card officials and
q protection Of some dark shodows.
The Collaboration System.
We, in sunny California, are also
blessed with a ss-collaboration
system, or fake co-operatives. A
good illustration Of these so-called
cooperative restaurants and lunch
rooms are the Leighton Dairy Res
taurants. Mr.. Leighton himself is
socialist and Christian Scientist.
He is known as quite an adventurer,