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...work in all kinds of weather on cold steel, with our hands, in winter, or in 130° or hotter temperature in summer. We eat cold lunches, and work from eight to ten hours per day, seven days per week, and get paid on a piecework basis (if we don't produce, we don't earn). We are subject to industrial accidents. Some of us are killed every day. In the event of serious injury or death, our dependents receive a small settlement under the Workmen's Compensation Act, or we receive a small settlement...
Ffadger Corgiladze, like other peasants of proved efficiency, was paid a piecework wage instead of a standard rate per week in this year of Russia's greatest need. Vigorous, patriotic Hadger toiled with other women workers through the rows of leathery green tea plants that flourish in Caucasian Georgia. Last week she had run up a startling record. Somehow she crammed the labor of 300 work days into one 24-hour period of tea-leaf picking. Her reward: 2,250 rubles (about $400). Hadger gave most of her small fortune, 2,000 rubles, to the Soviet War Fund...
...business. Hence last week's decision to take lower pay, if necessary, to get the work. And anyhow I.L.G.W.U. believes that its members are such good workers that, once they get the hang of war sewing, they will make as much money as ever at piecework rates, beating the spots off the production of less-skilled labor on the same goods...
William Gropper was born 42 years ago on Manhattan's lower East Side, on his way to school used to lug to a sweatshop the bundles of piecework sewing his mother did at home. Later he worked in a clothing store at $5 a week, took night art classes till he got his job on the Tribune. In Cropper's phrase he "fired the Tribune" after his I. W. W. conversion, became successively a labor organizer, oiler on a freight boat, itinerant sign painter...
...went smoothly up to last November when Commander Yamaguchi supplanted Commander Yamaki at the Embassy, coldheartedly resolved to pay Farnsworth on a piecework basis. This sudden drop in income forced the liquor-sodden Farnsworth to go to Newshawk Lewis. It was not long before "Dodo" was in jail...