The Daily Worker

Catholic Priests Are Spies for South Bend Auto Bosses: Hound Workers

Worker Who Loses Both Eyes in Accident Gets No Compensation Thanks to the Priests

(By a Worker Correspondent)

SOUTH BEND, Ind.-The Catholic priests here are the chief stool pigeons of the Studebaker bosses. Every Catholic church member employed in Studebaker spies on his fellow workers and reports to his priest, who in turn reports to the Studebaker bosses. Of course, the worker then is fired because he (the worker) merely goes around the Hungarian Workers Home. which is the workers center of South Bend.

The fired workers are not even members of the revolutionary movement, nor sympathizers but just simply spectators.

One Hungarian worker, namely Nick Malnar, worked in Studebaker's for nine years. But when he started visiting the Hungarian Workers' Home he was laid off.

While in Studebaker he had an accident insurance which was good anywhere in the country, meaning, of course, that the accident insurance was good for outside accidents too.

Loses Both Eyes.

Shortly after he was laid off from Studebaker Nick got a job in Oliver Plow Co., where after a few months' work he lost both eyes in an accident.

While Nick was under the impression that his insurance was still good the lousy Catholic priests even had that cancelled with the insurance company. This worker did not get a cent from anybody and today he faces starvation.

This is, in brief, the story of a worker and a church member at that.

Vicious Spies.

The Catholic priests not only had him discharged from Studebaker because Nick made it a point to go around the Workers' Home once in a while, but even had his accident insurance policy cancelled with the insurance company and they also blocked every effort on Nick's part to get any state compensation.

Where are the capitalist laws? The capitalist laws are made for the bosses and for their tools, the preachers, and not for the workers.

Fight For Social Insurance!

Where is the state compensation law or the state industrial insurance of Indiana? They are in the books only for the bosses and the preachers.

Workers!

Join the Communist Party of South Bend and fight for social insurance for all workers alike, full social equality for the Negro masses and protection of foreign-born workers. Demand state insurance from the government for all industrial accidents as in the case of Nick Molnar, Join the Unemployed Council. : .J. B.