New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-13
BOSS BARRIERS LAMENT
Dep|ore Conditions Which Make
Higher Prices Necessary.
SAFETY RAZOR A FACTOR
One Tonsorial Artist Woulc
Charge Self Shavers 80 Cents
for Hair Cut.

IL was remarkable that after hfteen
hours work the boss BARRIERS OF brahcii
No / of the International BARRIERS Protec-
tive Association could speak in such q uni
formiy impassioned manner at their mass
meeting held in Forsyth street, on TUE
lower East Side, last night
Seventv-fiye boss BARRIERS met. All were
willing to tell the public why East she
shaves would he raised from 10 TO ID cents
and hai, cuts from 10 to 30 cents All had
plenty of good reasons. The safety razor
was a factor That piece OF machinery. it
was acknowledged, like all other mechanl-
cal inventions had thrown many men out
of work f. Kinder, the chairman, said:
I'm sorry for myself that I'm thirty
seven wears in the barber line of business.
Iron workers car drivers, cloak makers
they consider themselves professional
mans BARRIERS is such a elegant trade
they should organization II they would do
it. do YOU mean to say that the BARRIERS
cannot throw away the safety razors?"
a man who said he had suffered for
twenty-odd years because in all that time
: he could not forget that he was in the
barber business, with great sincerity told a
little of the why. He began by saying that
the public had never appreciated BARRIERS
He had learned long ago not to nave a
care about that, he said, but now he would
like a little fancy work done by the down
trod6len. Amt we public servants?" he
asked we clean it the pubic more
Faithfully than the street sweepers they
clean it the streets.
THE publ;c make us for suckers. The
public handles us rough. The BARRIERS
should handle the public the same way.
of 10 call
ourselves bosses It desires me to laugh on
The one side: it desires me to cry On the
other side. They give the street cleaners
a vacation. The only vacation the barber
got when they go it to the hospital
Frank Mangano. whose shop is at No 81
Market street. remarked in passing:
"A man what make it $40 week shovel
ing SNOW he may be a single fella, II a
shave cost S cents he will pay cents
for shave. The barber storekeeper they
cot q bie expense Plenty light, which the
customers they never see in their life be-
fore cusridor on the floor. nice a hot
stove. Barber supply the newspapers for
tho customers what sit where they get it
the heat. the towel. the soap. the perfume
The barber request Of the customer, Y on
u-an+ i, \ face massage?' Customer says
NO he didn't have it no use for it Then
ask Hair tenic?' He replied No How
% you expect it the barber can pay his
expense?"
You forgot it the electric for the mas
sage shouted one.
The question of what to do with the sell
shaving man who drifted into the shop for
a hair cut was soon settled. It was ex-
planned by Mr.. Campanello, an Italian VINO
is heart and soul i'll the movement to uplit'
barber conditions throughout the World
that IF person shave himself ne never
get the sideboard even" The sldeooaro
refers TO that part of the job in the vicinity
Of the ears. such a person can't shave
his neck We can tell quick s flash! we
shall charge for every fellow that shaves
himself a half dollar for a hair cut
Some customers Tor 10 cents they want
a close shave" said a man in the corner.
such a customer makes II the oarpet
exgusted." said another.
other parts of town it is promised