The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-22
RAISE In WAGES"
FOR TROLLEY
is REALLY 4 CUT
.Speed-up in Cleveland
Increases
(By a Worker Correspondent

SIC GLhANb, OHio 10Y MANI
The speed-up on the st. Clair line
has put more men on the sick list
than St. Clair has ever had, and our
bosses were not satisfied with the
hardships forced on the men by
speeding up the running time, and
they decided to have the conductors
wear their changers instead of hang
ing the changer on the fare box.
Extra work such as shop trips are
given to the yard men and these
men do not belong to the union. The
yard men are stool-pigeons for the
company. They work 9 hours per
day and get shop trip which makes
IL 2-hour day. Road men would
get IL cents per hour more than the
shop men for making shop trips.
The poor suckers that work in the
yard can't see anything in a union
We that belong to the union are
Disseminated against unless we dc
the things that the company wants
or be stool pigeons, in other words
Our takers are asleep again. AL
the new employees have to sign up
to take the company insurance OF
they are not employed. The insur.
ance costs each employee $3.50 per
month.
The Cleveland Railway officials
have their welfare schemes and send
literature to our homes telling about
the wonderful "sings" and parties
and then put up schedule that
makes one sick to work regular. You
work from early in the morning UNI
til after 7 at night, for s to So
hours out of SO runs there are Al
straight runs and q three-swing
runs.
On November 10 they called on all
regular men to give SO or a day
work and extra men So to the Com
munity Fund, and asked for larger
donation than in 1927. Some men
refused to give as they did not have
faith in the Community Fund and
were not financially able. The
average per man at st. Clair for
1927 was $3.50 and in 1928 $4.70
The leaders of the community funo
are the biggest open shoppers in the
city.
The secretary of our union was in.
vited to attend meeting on October
l6, 1928, held by committee of Cleve
land workers for the purpose o.
fighting the tactics of the employ
ers in getting employees to con
tribute, but he did not attend the
meeting, although he attended {
meeting Of the American Legion las
spring and delivered a speech t,
them and was favorable to the Cleve
land railway Co., organizing a pos
OF ex-service men. But the ex-ser
vice men did not favor the move
ment and our secretary was no
eligible and the schemes was no
successful.
/ want to give three cheers for tn,
National MINERS ana Textile w OK
ers Unions, and it looks as though
the day Will come when the stree
car and busmen will also demand ;
National Street Carmen and Bus
mems Union.
Last May we were given &c pc,
hour raise in wages ana the capital
list papers of Cleveland spread tn,
news in big type across the from
pages of their papers and state'
how many thousand dollars it mean
to the men on the cars. But tn
company cut the running time
minutes on each round trip and no
a word was said about that in BIZ
headlines of the capitalist papers
The officials of our union wer
greatly in favor of cooperating wit
the company.
We make the same mileage haul
ing, the same amount OF passenger
as we did the year before with
minutes per trip less time, whic
means that in reality the motorme
and conductors on st. Clair line &c
cut of about &c per hour instea
, of raise.
The last move by the compan
; was to increase the salary of tn
starters which means about $1,000
more per year out of the car-rider
, pockets, but / do not see anythin
about that spread across the fror
, pages Of the daily papers of Clevs
, land. But l do notice that the
| claim their interest fund is low an
7 they must raise the care-fare.
, Let's get our heads together, boy
and get a square deal!-CARMAr