The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-23
FROM SIS TO$12
IS GOOD PAY TO
HOTEL SLAVES
And Still Boss Parties
Promises Fool Many!
CBv q Worker CorresD5uden


NEWARK, N. J. (By MaiD.-In
the political game, especially when
election comes around, things are so
worked up by the capitalist parties
that painters, carpenters, bakers,
drivers, peddlers, elevator operators,
walters, dish-washers, car-washers,
street cleaners, etc, are all of them
wound up so that they vote either
republican or democratic.
Work to Live.
In real practical life the game is
not the same-because a real repub-
lican who knows what his party
means to him enjoys the best in life.
But all the above mentioned work
ers are up at 7 in the morning or
before, to work and work hard for
eight ard nine and twelve hours out
of every twenty-four. They are
working for their very existence.
/ happen to be among the hotel
employees. This season l am painting
a ballroom and decorating the same
with gold leaf for the exploiters
Republicans and democrats) to eat
in, dance in, play in, talk in, while
and others are painting forever to
earn our existence.
Dirt Pay to Workers.
The hotel in question is the Robert
Treat in Newark, the finest and the
most expensive hotel in Newark.
and the cheapest paying to its en-
ployes.
While guests pay from 81 room
and up, the help is paid at ST per
day; mechanics and skilled help at
$50 per week; and all the way down
to S12 per week. Some of those re-
ceiving this meager wage of SIP
per week get free dinner. Yes, it's
free, for such food would have to
be thrown out, and that is why they
let them have it free.
Abysmal He'll.
To look at the dining room, the
lobbey, ball room, and bedrooms is
heaven. But if you are a human
being and will take a look at the
servants quarters, the kitchen and
other places where the workers slave
YOU find an absolute bottomless
hell.
And, in this very hell of filthy
dark holes, you will find men and
women who speak of themselves as
republicans and democrats. Yes, and
some of them wear Hoover buttons
and others have Smith" in their
lapels.
The worst of it all is that the
workers are easily fooled by such
bunk as the prosperity talk of the
republican party and by the prohi-
oition modification talk of the dem
ocrats. And at the election they
voted for these promises.
One morning a man of about As
years of age, a painter by trade,
came in and complained that some
one threw brick in his window and
smashed the "Hoov>H" that was in
it. Imagine worker with five
children to support, earning S36 per
week for only five months in the
year, still voting republican. voting
for the party that exploits him with
out mercy, taxing him, throwing him
out of employment during seven
months of the year. And vet he
believes that such is "prosperitv."
This man Is an American by nation
atty and, like thousands of others,
very easily misled. He follows the
capitalist press in what it writes
about Hoover and Smith or he fol-
lows some barkeeper politician who
gets his pay from the big republican
or democratic treasures for spread
ing such propaganda.
Imagine maids and other poorly
paid servants (slaves) of the hotel.
making up beds, cleaning rooms,
washing, carrying food and drinks to
the rich republicans,-and yet thew
wear republican insignia and vote
those idlers into power in the gov
eminent.
Yes, it is high time for the masses
of the workers to understand their
class position in society and follow
the Workers Party, the only PARTY
that stands for the American work
ing class.