The Daily Worker

Bosses Use Factory as School for Slavery
By Young Worker Correspondent.

Mostly in every big factory where hundreds of young workers are employed, the bosses use various means of agitation to keep the young workers in darkness and satisfaction of their miserable conditions. It is not enough for the bosses to pay us a $10 wage and to compel us to work 10 hours a day, they also want us to be satisfied with those favors.

In every big factory the bosses are issuing slogans similar to our wall papers, with various stories, pictures telling all the favors which the company does to the workers.

Last week on the walls of our factory was a big poster, which described a boss surrounded with beam lights like the picture of Jesus Christ, holding a telephone receiver and asking: "What are you here for?" and various type of workers answering, "We are important members of this organization," and the boss replies to it, "Every good worker who works in harmony with the management is an important member of our organization. It is a fifty-fifty proposition."

The average American young worker receiving the education in the public schools and believing in the opportunities in this country still believes that in the concern in which he works a fifty-fifty proposition exists. Those slogans issued by the bosses in comparison with the real conditions in the shops serves a good means for agitation.

Our comrades must make use of those posters or in many cases bulletins issued by the firms to agitate the young workers and to bring them nearer to the class struggle.