The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-21
Notes on the South
By CAROLINE DREW.
'Outhern Representative Workers
international Relief.

Seven Negro women are employed as ironers
in house dress factory in Greenville, S. C.
They get six cents dozen for pressing wo-
mems dresses, and three cents a dozen for
pressing children's dresses. No matter how
many pleats, tucks or fancy there is to be
pressed, the price is the same. The women
start to work at 1880 and work until $50 with
thirty minutes off for lunch These workers
cannot press more than $50 dresses day for
which they receive about rs cents.
A short time ago they were given lot Of
chiliren's dresses which were so fancy, that
work and sweat as they would, they could not
average more than 101 dresses. which made
their wages about 80 cents day.
White girls sew on snaps for which they get
three cents Dozen Two snaps have to be
sewn on each dress. Packers get four cents
a Dozen These girls average $500 week.
The white girls and women who sew the
dresses make between $298 and 1898 week.
Officials of the A. F. of L. of the state of
South Carolina, begged the governor recently
to restor the jobs of workers who were dis
eliminated against because they belonged to
the union.
Last summer the U.TW Settled" the strike
of the textile workers in the Mills Mill. The
settlement" stated that all workers should
get their jobs back and workers who belonged
to the union should not be Disseminated
against Thlrty-two union members were fired
soon after the workers went back to work.
The governor promised to Investigate" This
is another invitation to the workers to keep
on starving.
Both the Court House and one Of the large
churches in Greenville carry the INSIGNIA of ths
Masons on their cornerstone
A framed copy of the ten commandments Is
hung in the lobby of this same court house.
Around the corner from the church a painter
cut his throat because he was out of work five
months, could not get job anywhere and his
family was starving.
On the bulletin board of large fashionable
church in Charlotte the following announce
ment appeared: "a man who does not have a
car is one who has not kept up with his pay
ments."
When Negro workers appeared for an I'M
employment meeting in Greenville, short
time ago, cops stationed in the lot told them
If they did not move on they would be given
job on the chain gang. The bosses Of the
South not only want cheap labor, they want
free labor.
Ten hours day in dust-filled factory for
wages of $500 and $500 week is the life Of
between 400 and 500 young Negro workers in
the Charleston Bagging Company. Most Of
these workers are just children. They do not .
look more than II or IL years Of age.
When they leave the factory at night. their
hair, eyelashes, face, every part Of them is
covered with the brown dust Of the mill. In
the mill the dust is so thick they cannot see
the worker next to them.
Alta recent factory gate meeting which the
southern representative Of the Workers Inter-
national Relief held, (the first of its kind in
Charleston) the workers gathered around eag-
erly and thanked the speakers.
The Workers International Relief Branch in
Charleston has set as its immediate task the
organization OF these most exploited workers.
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Machines installed in large cigar factory
in Charleston have caused some Negro women
workers to lose their $4.3S week Jobs.
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A rigger working for one Of the dry-docks
in Charleston fell down and was instantly killed
There is no workmens compensation law in
Charlotte, and the widow must sue to ret even
enough money to bury him. ,.... .,.A.r;
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