The Daily Worker

Extra Hours for No Pay in Saginaw Transit Co.

Daily Worker:—

Here is an instance of how the bosses in this city are robbing both the employed and unemployed workers.

The general manager of the Saginaw Transit Company, which owns the whole transportation system in Saginaw, called a meeting on June 8th of all the operators that were on duty and all the shop men, as well as the entire office force and presented to them a scheme called the voluntary paving plan. He told the workers that the company's tracks were in bad shape and that the city council is after them to have them repaired. This repair work, he told the workers, can only be done if the workers sacrifice themselves for the sake of the company by giving "free" to the company three or four hours a day besides the regular day's work until the job is completed.

This general manager is a new one here. He comes from one of the southern states and when he presented his plan he told us that where he came from the workers work for less money than we get here and that we should be glad to accept the plan to help the company-otherwise we would have to stand for a wage-cut.

So far all of the workers have been working three or four hours extra without any pay-all except three of the car operators.

We have a lot of unemployment in the city. What we workers must do is to all organize together, employed and unemployed, and force the bosses to hire workers who are out of jobs to do this work and to give real relief to the rest of the jobless. As soon as we organize strong into the Trade Union Unity League we will have these greedy bosses whipped.

--A Car Worker.