The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
Fails to Stall Off
Shop Organization
by Company Union
Eveready La b Ell Boss
Scared by Progress
of Shop Group
by a Printing Worker
Correspondent

correspondent
NEW YORK CITY, - I want to
thank you in the name of the work
ers OF The Everready Label Corp.
for the kindly cooperation you have
given us in the last few weeks by
publishing letters sent to the Daily
Worker from our workers. All those
letters helped lot. We have been
able to make a further step in the
class struggle by forming group in
the shop of workers who are stick
ing together now, but were unor-
| ganized before.
| Now that the boss has found out
| that we are trying to organize, he
called a meeting last Friday and ne
spoke to us as If we were happy
family. The question is who is happy.
Maybe 1t is the boss. One thing Is
sure, it isn't the workers.
He spoke very nicely to us for a
long time and suggested that we elect
several workers from the shop to form
a union of our own, which would be
company union. The workers
answered him by walking out of the
= meeting.
Our shop-chairman, whom we had
elected to represent the workers here
to get us into a union, suddenly got
cold feet after a conference with the
boss. and now he is backing up the
boss in trying to get us to form a
company union. If we do as the
boss tells us, it will be worse than
it was before.
The boss can't scare us by telling
us he is going to close the business
or bring in scabs. We can beat the
boss by organizing,
Everready was one OF the first 10
sign up with the MIRA. Our boss
went to General Johnson and got an
extra extension before putting the
code into effect, because he was too
busy" to put in the MIRA. This
helped the boss but we suffered, be-
cause we had to work the same long
hours, even though the boss had
signed the MIRA. He took along the
payroll record to show what high
salaries he had been paying to the
workers during the depression, but
he did not take along the time cards
to show how many hours we had to
work to get the $18 to $25 every
week.
Finally about two weeks ago when
the boss put in the code, we started
working shorter hours, but got wage
cuts. It seems that the government
is not very much interested In the
0ylSA
come around and see how many
workers are working without time
cards, and getting wages as low al
1912 dollars a week. The boss pur-
posely took another loft on the eighth
floor where he keeps these slaves
working on Sundays, holidays and al
long hours as he wants them to work
T only hope that workers will al
stick together and not let the boss
split our ranks, which is what thu
company union is for. Workers. 1
you want to learn how to fight thu
bosses, read the Daily Worker.
I wish the worker who wrote The
letter to the Daily Worker on Sept
would leave his name and address
in the office of the Daily Worker
because I want to get in touch witt
him.
Comrade, you don't have to WORRY
about giving your name to the Daily
Worker There are more of us hert
who write letters to the Daily
Worker.
An Honest Worker Who Was
Helped By the 'Daily."
|
Ed Note.--The Daily. Worker vii
be very glad to be instrumental IL
getting honest workers from this shol
in touch with each other. At tn.
same time, the Committee for TIL,
Organization of Unorganized Print
ers is already active in helping Il
form a group In this shop, as wei
as in many other unorganized shops
and every worker who realizes tn,
necessity of organization controlled
by the workers themselves, and no
by the boss, should get in touch will
this Committee at Room $40, 80 Z
18th st., City.