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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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In Norfolk, Va., the Tobacco Workers Protective League urges tobacco workers to organize against exploitative conditions, including $7-9 weekly wages, output quotas without transparency, and lack of basic facilities, demanding $12.50 minimum wage and unity across races for potential strike.
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Factory Group Issues Call for Organization
By Tobacco Workers Protective League
NORFOLK, Va. The tobacco stemmers, floormen and packers of the American Tobacco League are called to organize and fight for the demands put forward by this organization and made known to them in the leaflet to be distributed among them.
Stemmers must stem nine pounds a day to keep their jobs and none of them know how much they stem as the boss won't tell them and fires them if they get too nosey.
The company is trying to keep us within a $7 to $9 week and we demand a $12.50 minimum wage for all men and women. We can't go to the lavatories or drink water any time that we need to. We have no dressing rooms and aren't even allowed to wash up after work!
We are not, any of us, satisfied with these conditions! We can smash them and win better conditions by organizing. Negro and white workers together. If necessary we must strike for our demands.
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Norfolk, Va.
Outcome
demand for $12.50 minimum wage and better conditions; call to organize and strike if necessary.
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The Tobacco Workers Protective League calls on tobacco stemmers, floormen, and packers of the American Tobacco League in Norfolk, Va., to organize against low wages of $7 to $9 per week, requirement to stem nine pounds a day without knowledge of output, restrictions on lavatory and water use, lack of dressing rooms and washing facilities; urges Negro and white workers to unite.