The daily worker., 1931-01-05
CHICAGO RAILROAD WORK.
ERSLICK FAKERS

sational elections ever held in this lodge Car
ter is noted for his letterwriting ability and spy
activities
In one of his numerous epistles to the Grand
Lodge of the I. A. of M, Carter charged that
Reds boring from within" were in control of the
local The executive council instructed Carter
to produce the evidence and the Reds would be
ousted from the organization. When the matter
came before the local the membership extended
its officers a unanimous vote of confidence.
Later Carter and his cohorts addressed COM
munication to local management of the COM
pany naming those who, = his opinion, should
be fired because they were Reds.
The bosses then began a siege of terrorism
against those named by this stool-pigeon. Car
ter's defeat and the trouncing handed his whole
ticket is the apparent answer of the workers
belonging to the machinists helpers lodge.
The workers are evidently greater interested
IN the program of the Communist Party than
ever before. The Daily Worker which is being
sold at the shops daily is eagerly awaited by
the shopmen and many of them have their
pennies ready for the comrades as they pass
in through the gates each morning.
The neighborhood close to the shops where
the workers make their homes is being canvassed
nightly and Red Sundays have been made per-
manent feature Many subscriptions have been
obtained and hundreds have signed the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill These contacts
will be utilized in the building of Unemployed
Councils and the National Railroad Industrial
League.
The following program of immediate demands
has been formulated and put forth by the shop
nucleus # the Communist Party:
1. The immediate institution of the Sx-hour
day five-day week, with pay for eight hours
work
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days per week the company shall pay the diff
ference between that and what would have been
earned under the fiv days per week schedule.
3. Rank and file workers administration of
all relief funds and the setting aside of the $25-
100000 increase in profits in 1929 for the relief
of these workers who are not now employed, or
who have been employed on a three days per
week schedule. In no instance shall workers be
required to contribute to charity funds. The
company must be compelled to sacrifice all
profits during the remainder of the crisis which
was brought about by the capitalist owners of
industry these profits to go into the relief fund
4 No workers family must be permitted to
face eviction from his home for inability to pay
rent. nor shall heat light and gas be denied his
family These necessities must be paid for by
the company out of its enormous profits coined
during the past several years.
5. The Speed-Ip system which has been great
y intensified since the crisis began and especial
ly since the institution of the Hoover "stagger
system" on this railroad must be completely
abolished at once.
The Communist shop nucleus in its statement
concerning the above demands has this to say:
There is nothing unreasonable about these
demands which adopted after a careful
survey of the situation. The suffering among
our fellow workers has become so terrible that
immediate steps must be taken if they and their
families are to stave off starvation. The usual
program TO the bosses, naturally, is based upon
the theory that the full burden of the collapse
of capitalist economy must be borne by the work
ers. This attempt to bring misery, suffering
and privation into the homes of those who have
slaved to create profits for the North Western
Railroad stockholders must be hit and hit hard
Our wives and babies must not be permitted to
suffer because of the want of proper food and
clothing. We must fight for bread for our loved
ones, for milk for the kiddes and against the
efforts of the bosses to crush into docile sub
mission"