The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29

THE Western Electric bosses publish periodical
L they call the western Electric News" sub
heading unblushingly claims it to be IAN IL
lustrated Magazine Devoted to the Interests OF
western Electric Men and Women" Let us see.
The contents Of the February issue include the
following articles: Bell System Marvel, Communi-
cations in Washington's Day; Canned Salmon on
the Roof; Patseboard Heroes; How Contract
Bridge Should Not Be Played; Secrets Of Sur
veying Know the Book Plate; etc.
Here we see the bosses dope-machine in action.
In the years of 1929 to 1892 while they threw
$4,000 of the workers out to starve and put the
rest Of them on the starvation diet Of days
week yet the workers piled up for the bosses the
following dividends:
1929 S23 900 with total sales Of S4i0,949,000
1890 S23 $50 900 with total sales of 1851 ,478,400
1891 Sl0,5O0,O00 with total sales Of $229,ooo,0o0
It is OF interest that while the sales Of the
Western Electric in the year 1880 dropped some
300000O0 over the preceding year, yet they were
.ble by speed-up, wage cuts, etc. to pay out prac-
tically the same dividends as the preceding year,
soIae s23 900 000 This is of interestt to the work
ers But the bosses don't want them to think oil
that; they would rather have the workers suffer
and starve in silence. and learn how contract
bridge should not be played or the why and
wherefore Of bookplates.
From the workers of the western Electric Haw-
thorne Plant in Chicago, every week ID per
cent is taken out of their pay for Emmersons
Unemployment Relief What does Walter S. Git
ford president of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Co., five billion dollar corporation
and the biggest in the world, and Of which the
Western Electric Is subsidiary, give? Nothing,
except his name as head Of President Hoover's
fake Emergency Relief Committee, announced
last year with a hurrah and lot of blah-blah as
going to solve the unemployment distress
Is the Western Electric too poor to help the
10000 workers who helped 1t pile up $137,875,0o0
in dividends in the years Of 1925 to 1892 but are
now unemployed or working 2, 8 and 4 days
week? Here is the answer
Ninety-eight per cent of the stock is owned by
the American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
During the year OF 1881 the A. T. g. T. with its
affiliates (the Bell SYSTEM showed gross revenues
of 81 O75, 757,273 which represented a decline Of
$2S,182532 from the preceding year Yet in spite
of an increase OF $14,S39522 in taxes, and an in
crease of $9,906,945 in the sum set aside for de-
probation. the net earnings we're 1927, LOG 49,
gain Of $1365,178 over the preceding year. The
net income available for common dividends was
S186951 004.
The American Telephone and Telegraph Co. is
one OF the kingdoms within the Morgan empire,
which for foreign" domains has set up subs-
diary, the International Telephone and Telegraph
Co. Western Electric Is province within the
kingdom Of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Co., supplying the Bell Telephone Com
panies in the United States and Canada with
their equipment. Graybar Electric Co. has been
created to distribute in the United States West
ern Electric products other than sound picture
apparatus and for business outside Of the Bell
System
Western Electric IN turn has it's own subsi-
diaries, the principal ones being:
Teletype Corporation Of Chicago acquired in
1880: Manufacturers Junction Railway Co. at
Hawthorne, Chicago; Electrical Research Prod
ucts Inc, chiefly for sale of sound picture ap-
paratus This in turn has 20 foreign subsidiaries.
Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York, owned
jointly by Western Electric and the parent A. r.
Il r.
The Western Electric has warehouses and
plants throughout the country. The main plants
are: Hawthorne Plant, Chicago; Kearney Plant,
Kearney, N. j.; Baltimore, Md, and one plant on
the Pacific Coast. The current assets of the Vest
ern Electric (cash accounts receivable etc. at the
end Of 1880 were sl4o,442570 and current lobili-
ties (notes, ese2urts payable, etc) asiy $JO9O0,-
tbs.
It IL shs S<eaAzp Of the Western Eaectric who
have piled % these riches, but what 40 thev get
now?-Wage cuts, lay-offs, speed-up, sries terror,
wage sjecLng They also gel Jhe Western Electric