The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-06
BOSSES, AT.
IN MIGHTY WAGE
SLASH CAMP AICN
Unite With Jobless for
work or Wages!"

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authorized by the representatives of
labor 1.-THE bureaucrats Green, Woll
and Co.-Ed.) e. that no new
movements for the purpose of wage
increases apart from those already
in progress, shall be commenced and
that the workers will in every way
cooperate with industry in the solu-
ton of its problems"
Slash Wages Every Day.
Four months have passed, each
lay bringing new reports of hun
dreds and thousands thrown on the
street, of wages cut, ten, twenty,
twenty-five per cent and more, of
factories running only part time.
A. F. L. Helps Wage-Cutting
Campaign.
In January, the Monthly Survey
Of Business of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, in order to aid the
wage-cutting campaign, declared
that "never before have manufac-
turers been so generally willing to
abandon wage reductions as a means
Of reducing expenses" And yet, at
the same time steel workers in
Youngstown suffered a twenty per
cent cut in wages.
Wages Down Everywhere.
In Philadelphia, 400 workers in
the Aberle Hosiery Mills had their
wages cut.
In Grand Rapids, "a workers
struck against wage cut of per
cent, the third reduction in two
years.
In the textile mills of Holyoke,
Massachusetts, wages have been cut
so per cent. Reports from that city
on Jan. IS stated that operatives
earning S28 in four days on navy
contract work last season were now
getting S1S to $50 for a week of
67A hours, beginning at 6:45 a. m.
and quitting at p. m.
In the paper mills of Holyoke,
unskilled workers getting SIS to 500
week are now working only two
or three days a week. In Pontiac.
Michigan, thousands of workers are
out Of work and over 1000 families
are living on charity.
According to one worker, "the few
'orkers who have been put back to
cork following widespread layoffs in
INTO AID body factories are ex-
Heriencing speed-up, slack time and
r-'+~ in ware rates. I went hack to
rorl; last Friday at Coo an hour-a
Ae o'lt G my day rate"
Cut Some Nearly so Percent
Another v-0rker testified that
wage cuts On piece work in his plant
averaged nearly 80 percent. "a man
Who was putting cut 90 jobs day
last wear will have to put out as
obs today to make the same wages"
his worker stated.
IS Percent Slash in Waterbury
In Waterbury, Conn, workers in
the Waterbury Clock plants suffered
wage cuts IF 25 per cent following
the introduction of the "B" system.
In Danville, Va, the Riverside and
Dan River Cotton mills announced a
wage cut Of 10 re,' rent on Jan. IS
effective Feb. l. In the Oakland Mo-
tor plants at Pontiac workers getting
So to 81 day were cut on Feb. 5 80
$40 and $500 for an eight-hour day
end ar hourly rate of 43.5c and 45c
or SIT md s1S for forty-hour week.
IN the Chevrolet Fisher Body plants
in Oakland, California wages were
cut II per cent last month, regard
less of the numerous cuts suffered
by the workers Throughout the year.
In the Ford plant at Kearny, N. ] !,
a new workers brigade system has
been irtl oduced. Work gangs have
teen cut from z to 5; 81 day men
have been fired and new men hired
ut Sc day. In Fall River. Mass,
workers Of the Flgin Silk Mill struck
against 4 wage cut of 90 per cent.
Duluth Workers Hit
In the lumber industry in Duluth,
Jinn., wages have been cut from $40
70 $50 month to $50 month. In
Hamilton, Ohio. the Champion Paper
60. employing 3,E0o workers, fired
half and cut the wages of the rest
so per cent. In Yorkville, Ohio, the
Wheeling Steel Co. cut the wages OF
It's workers from 1910 to S. 6 day.
In Rockford III. workers of the
Rockford Republic Furniture Co. suf-
fcred wage cut OF 10 per cent. In
Moundsville. w. Va, miners employ
ed by the Paisley interests struck
against cut Of Sc ton. In Six
Mile Run. Pa. more than half of the
miners are out of work, while the
others. WORKING on a two-day week,
Lave received cuts of over zoe from
sl.01 to SOC ton.
..dvertise Wage Cuts
IN the Detroit Free Press the fol-
lowing ad appeared for tool design
CTS "First class jig and fixture men
willing 10 work st reduced rates tenn
porarily. Give name, phone number
ard last place employed. Address
Box 2451, Detroit Free Press" "Tem-
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