The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
BOSS GOVT SPY
SYSTEM VICIOUS
ON POSTAL MEN
Organize to Break This
Espionage!
Chicago, Ill.
Daily Worker,
Dear Comrades:

CnlcaBO, III.
Daily Worker,
Dear Comrades:
We are three workers who after
Seing out of work for some time, filed
application for temporary work in the
nost office. When finally we got the
jobs We found that the work will only
last for q few days until Christmas
time.
We worked from three to eight
hours at night, some of lis as postal
clerks and some as laborers. The pay
was IS cents an hour for clerks and
SIS cents for laborers, so you can
imagine how much our pay checks
amounted to. To work as clerk in
the main post office on Clark and
Adams st. is real hell. Slave driving
forenen are all around you, and con-
SANITY urging you 10 speed up more
and more All kinds OF peep holes
are placed in the ceilings and walls
Of the work-roonn through which
stool pigeons. known as inspectors"
are constantly Watching the men. to
see that nothing IL taken. We saw
someone arrested by these inspectors
We were informed by those WORK.
ing regularly in the pos: Office cha,
anyone caught taking something even
II only . two cent stamp. gets a
severe sentence in Jail BY the fedora!
government. Even the teiists are moi
free from inspectors an above each
toilet Is hole in the ceiling for them
to look through.
Spy System
Besides inspectors. there are mum
erous other pests The post office
maintains powerful; sps sys,srn u
weed out radicals These spies aye
sent TO work among the men. and
keep their ears open reporting any
thing against the interest OF the
money masters Of the city. We found
out from the regular men that favor
itisnn is in full sway IN the post Of
flee. II person takes an exarnina-
ton for regular carrier or clerk OF
laborer. even II he passes. ne may
have to wait many months or even
over O year or two, unless he has
scsne pull 10 get in sooner. After
getting in, your name 10. put on a list
in the office aud presumably all
names on the lists 60 in rotation
until your name is next to graduate
from a sub to q regular. However,
some names way down the list jump
UP TO the top OF the list In miraculous
fashion. The reason is plain, they
know seme grating politicians o.
prominent business men, who use
their influence with the officials OF
the post office.
Arthur C. Lueder is the postmaster
OF Chicago. He is large real estate
man worth several hundred thou
sand dollars. He gets over $4,000
year for doing nothing. The follow
ing is a common joke among the
men; One is asked. what is the
most unusual sight in the world?"
When you say you don't know, the
reply is: ITO see Louder in his Of
flee" The postmaster is rarely in the
office, going about his private bust
ness. The job he holds is one of the
numerous political graft jobs handed
out by the republican and democratic
parties.
We forgot N mention the filth and
dust that fills the air. and gets into
the lungs of the men. Colds, and
consumption play he'll with the health
and lives of the post office men. This
is some Of the rotten condition the
wonderful government "ot the peo-
pie, by the people. and for the peo-
Pile" hand out to the workers, 1t is
plain the government is for the bosses
and against the workers. The Trade
Union Unity League should begin to
organize the postal workers for some
real struggles. Three Workers.