The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-22
MAKE ENORMOUS
PROFITS FROM
SLAVES SWEAT
Workers Pay Double
a for Uniforms
BIZ a Worker Correspondent

DB u W UfhtI COff 6o pUNuGHb
l think it is necessary for the
workers who read the Daily Worker
to know about conditions in the
Schrafft chain of restaurants in New
York City.
Hundreds of working girls begin
to work anew each day in the kit
chens and on the counters of these
slave pens as cooks, bakers, salad
girls, dishwashers, mattresses, etc.
They slave for the huge profits of
the company. Here is where the
female and male workers are ex-
plotted most terribly.
SIS a Week.
The wages are as low as possible.
Most girls work here for SIS week.
Cooks, who stand over hot stoves all
day with hardly a breath of air
slave for SIS week. The highest
a worker can make in Schrafft's is
sci week.
The workers have to sacrifice
every ounce of energy they have for
the bosses profits without getting a
decent wage. The workers cannot
stand the slavery in the Schrafft
stores very long, and are forced to
soon quit. Girls come and go. That
does not help much, the company
finds plenty of other girls.
"Cheap Labor"
The conditions of the Schrafft
slaves are not improved by this. The
only way to better the conditions is
organize. The Schrafft Co. hires
mostly girls because they can pay
them very low wages. They are
called by the bosses "cheap labr."
Profits on Uniforms.
To make their enormous profits,
the Schrafft bosses find yet other
ways to exploit the workers. Each
worker is forced to buy a complete
uniform from the company. For an
ordinary smock you have to pay
$1.75. Caps are So cents.
Both of these articles are worth
far less than these prices which the
company soaks the workers for them,
and the firm makes 100 per cent
profits on them. We have found
that the same clothes could be
bought elsewhere for rs cents for
the smock, and 10 cents for the cap.
More Profits.
Very often it happens that these
uniforms are sold by the company
twice. Girls who are there only two
or three days leave their working
clothes in the locker. The company
takes them after week or so, cleans
them little, and then re-sells them
as new. Again profits for the COM
pany. Under the terrific speedup the
poor girls have to work whole day
for these clothes-a day of nine long
hours.
Rotten Meals.
Schrafft's is so generous" as to
give the employees two meals. One
is lunch, which costs 95 cents. The
workers are charged the same for
this meal as the customers, who are
mostly petty-bourgeoisie, and can
afford this price, which the workers
cannot.
The other meal consists of sand
witch and some coffee. The workers
must pay the same price the richer
customers pay.
What eats do the workers get?
Never any freshly cooked food. We
get only what Is left from the day
before. Often there is served US
such a terrible mixture of leftovers
that you lose your appetite even to
look at it. In the cold winter thsy
don't give US any thing warm, but
only cold salad left over from the
day before. This gives an idea of
our slavery in Schraffts.
was glad to notice another
Schrafft slave recently who recently
wrote worker correspondence for the
Daily Worker. l agree with her
we must. organize into the Hotel and
Restaurant Workers Union, which is
at present leading the cafeteria
workers strike.
--ANOTHER SCHRAFFT SLAVE.