The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06

day, while at present they are
turning out 22O jobs with less
men in the department.
A Plymouth Worker.
There has been a 5 per cent
lay off in the Dodge plant, but
production has dropped only Is
per cent. How do they do it?
The answer is: More speed-up.
They are also pulling the trick,
of shifting men from one de-
partment to another and start
ing them at beginners wages.
"A Dodge Worker.
In the press room at Murray
Body where I work, most of us
get only about $40 to $14 week,
while few of the bosses pets
make $26. At the same time
men are being hired daily and
we who have been working here
four or five months are being
sent home due to shortage Of
stock" On the midnight shift
they put out the lights during
lunch hour and make us eat in
the dark.
"A Murray Worker.
Three men have been crippled
for life within two weeks in De-
partment N-646, Motor Building
at the Ford plant The most re-
cent case happened about one
week ago. A fellow had his foot
crushed by falling metal. After
going to the first aid and having
it dressed, he was forced to con-
time working. Three days later
his foot had to be amputated.
"A Ford Worker.
I am now working only two
days a week at the Packard
plant. One day the foreman
called a bunch of us into the
Office and asked how many de-
pendents we had. He made
lot of us think we were going to
get laid off; then he used this as
q means of speeding us up.
"A Packard Worker.
The 40-hour week has finally
reached the Hudson company,
Now that the company is getting
fewer orders, it has decided to
abide by the N. R. A. code and
put it's workers on the 40-hour
week. In a couple of weeks we
will be on the 35-hour week,
then the 30-hour week, then
BINGO, we'll be lining up again
in front of the souplines and
welfare relief stations.
A Hudson Worker.
The Chevrolet plant is filthy.
1t may be General Motors, but
it looks like general Geeay. No
coat racks; half the time you
find your coat on the greasy
floor being tramped upon. There
are no wash rooms, Just six wash
bowls for 5000 workers. or one
wash bowl per 1000. There are
very few men here over IS or 40;>
mostly young workers between 18
and Is.
"A Chevrolet Worker.
am working at the open
hearth at Ford'S dismantling
junked cars on an average of 100
a day where previously we did
100 cars. The bosses are going
wild trying to speed up to 225
cars day. The workers must
take off all door handles, hard
ware inside and out, also all
glass, in III minutes. A second
delayed, due to rusty screws and
bolts, jams the conveyor line.
Before we get through to the in
side of the car, the aeetylene
men are at work blazing away,
cutting off drive shafts. motor
hangers, steering column, etc.
The intense heat within the car
drives us crazy. Once a worker
had trouble removing glass and
found himself surrounded on all
sides by torch and sledge men,
and he could not get through
the doors. He had to break the
rear glass and crawl out head
first, and was lucky his head was
not crushed open with a sledge,
Because the boss never lets a
worker stop at Ford's. After a
days work we are not only tired,
but we can't read or concentrate.
Our mind does not work. We
are becoming more and more
worse slaves than the ancient
slaves when they had no
machinery to work with,
"A Ford Worker.
l am one of the 20 girls re-