Vol. 75/No. 15      April 18, 2011

Three communist workers at an aerospace parts plant in the Los Angeles area received bonuses totaling $100.14, which they immediately turned over to the Capital Fund. The fund helps finance long-range plans to build the communist movement.

“According to the company’s formula, two accidents this month reduced the bonus, but ‘productivity’ made up for the deficit. How about that trade-off!” writes Arlene Rubinstein, who sent in her check and those of Ellie García and James Harris.

One-off payments of this kind from employers—safety and production bonuses, contract-signing incentives, and the like—are recognized as blood money by class-conscious workers. They are bribes to convince workers to accept dangers on the job, speedup, and wage cuts instead of standing up and fighting for our interests.

Workers who want to contribute blood-money bonuses can do so by writing or calling distributors of the Militant listed on page 8.

—CINDY JAQUITH  
 
 
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