The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-02
SPEED-UP KINGS
CONNIE NDATION is
WARNING TO MEN
Bosses Get Injunction
At Federal Mill
(Bu a Worker Correspondent

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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By maiD.
The Hosiery Worker in a recent issue
plays up the part taken by the Off
cials of the Hosiery Union in the
Mitten-Mahan pact, out of which the
workers shaving for Mittcn get moth
ing and never will get anything until
they come together and organize into
an industrial union, not craft union.
Mitten Benefits"
Mitten, who always shows his love
for the workers by firing any leaders
caught by his company spies attempt
ing to organize those shaving for this
exploiter, has given Philadelphia one
man trolleys thru his speed-up sys-
TEN. He has also given US company
unions together with fake stock OPP
portunities for the workers whereby
in a few centuries they may become
a regular Mitten exploiter them
selves.
Mitten shows his contempt for the
officials intelligence by getting the
Hosiery Worker to print his ad. He
hopes that it will make the workers
an easy prey to his stock selling
scheme, so that they will deposit their
miserable savings in Mitten's bank to
form more capital for him to further
exploit the workers.
And these are the very hosiery
workers who are now beginning to
feel the effects of the suggestion
which the officials, whom Mitten
praises, made to the hosiery manu-
facturers to get together on ma
tional scale. They did and the hosiery
workers are locked out on strike
against wage cuts and speedup.
Betrayal.
Mitten realized that the hosiery
union officials were knowingly or I'M
knowingly betraying their fellow
workers, for the capitalist and the
worker have nothing in common and
the hosiery officials advocated coop
Grafton with the boss.
And sarc the bosses cooperating
with those on strike? o, yes,-by
securing iniunctions, by hiring thugs,
as in the Allen A strike at Kenosha,
and by arresting pickets as here at
the Ajax strike. At the Federal mill
an injunction has been issued. Yes,
this is the bosses cooperation with
the workers in their struggles against
the breaking down of their union.
The officials Of the hosiery union
should be responsible to the rank and
file of the workers in the union and,
when a man of the Mitten type, one
Of the worst labor haters and ex-
ploiters in existence, commends the
heads of any union. those belonging
to the union should know that the
heads of the union are knowingly or
unknowingly handing over the union
to the exploiters.
Insane Speed-up.
Yes, as the Hosiery Worker quotes
from Mitten, a proper psychological
attitude on the part of the worker is
necessary to insure the maximum
production (Which Mitten advocates
and the capitalists desire). To be
sure this will create additional profits
for the boss, and the workers will be
driven almost insane in the effort to
keep up with the speeding machines.
The elimination of workers which fol-
lows will force many into the ranks
of the unemployed. Then these I'M
employed will be forced by starvation
to scab on their employed fellow work
ers in their later struggles against
wage cuts.
These are few of the problems
which leaders, whom Mitten COM
mends, should study, or the rank and
file of the workers, who are mostly
Americans, may decide that these
leaders" are misleaders and danger
GUS to the interests of the workers.
Then will be the turn of the leaders
who will build the unions and use
them against the capitalist owners of
industry in their fight to end strikes
end the killing, arrest and wounding
Of strikers. w. C. p.