Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-11-01
OF TAX ON
HOUSEHOLD GOODS
Speakers Give Cause for High
Cost of Living at Noon
day Meeting.

Employees of Johnson & Mnrphy's
shoe factory stood in the rain in
front of the entrance in Lincoln
street at noon today listening to
Congressman Walter /. Mccoy. As
sembly Candidate Simon L. Fisch
and John Colpoys, secretary of the
Central Labor Union Of Washington,
D. C. A
Congressman Mccoy pointed that
the shoe industry was more prosper
Gus than most industries, due to
the fact that the tariff was only 10
to 10 per cent. He said that the fair
wages paid avs due to the brains
OF the shoemaker and that the men
were not hidden behind a shield of
protective tariff. The strike at Eaw-
renee last spring was reviewed by
the congressman, who said that ten
to twelve people were found living in
two small rooms. The cause was ex-
planned by the congressman. who
pointed out that literature was sent
10 Servia and Bulgaria to the poor
people p~icturing fine mills and cot
tages and banks IN opposite n
These people came here and broke
down wages" said the congressman,
land were made to suffer as a result.
The pest wages was $3.50 a week"
The high cost of living was then re-
feried to by the congressman.
Mr.. Fisch pleaded for the election
of the Assembly in order that Judge
William Hughes would be sent to the
United States Senate, and made a
strong plea for the reelection of
Mayor Haussling. At the mere men
ton of the mayors name the crowd
cheered and those who remained in
doors cheered from their windows,
and pictures of Haussling were
tackled by the workingmen in front
of the building. The pictures were
the ones sent broadcast on the PAM
plhet, telling what the mayor has
done.
Mr.. Colys spoke as follows:
Weary and worn with his days
toll, the laborer retires to rest al night
on a hedstead taxed IS per cent. or a
plain strak tick taxed IS per cent,
and sheet taxed 40 per cent. covers
himself with a blanket taxed 167 per
cent. He is awakened in the morning
by an alarm clock taxed 40 per cent,
gets up and puts on his cotton under
clothes, shirt and trousers taxed Sc
per cent, cotton socks taxed So per
cent, shoes taxed 25 per cent. and
laces them with shestrings taxed 80
per cent. He pulls aside the curtain
taxed so per cent. and looks out of
the window to see if the weather is
fair through glass taxed 70 per cent.
If he is a kind, dutiful husband, he
builds a fire in the kitchen stove
taxed 81 per cent. Splits the kindling
with an axe or Matched taxed 45 per
cent, lights the fire with a match
taxed 81 per cent. and puts on the tea
kettle taxed 20 per cent. He then
washes his face and hands in a tin
basin taxed 46 per cent, with soap
taxed 30 per cent, and wipes them
with a towel taxed As per cent.
His wife gets and puts on her
clothes, all taxed the same as her
husbands, and gets breakfast with
cooking utensils taxed 45 per cent.
Then, when the breakfast is served,
they sit at the table taxed 35 per
cent, covered with a cloth taxed 40
per cent, on chairs taxed 35 per
cent, eat with spoons, knives and
forks taxed So per cent, from plates
taxed SO per cent; sweeten the coffee
sugar taxed ~ per cent, and
drink 1t from cups and saucers taxed
So per cent. II he is a religious man,
before going to work he holds family
worship, reading a chapted from his
Bible taxed % per cent, and kneeling
in prayer to God on a carpet taxed 81
per cent; the prayer ended, he takes
chew Of tobacco taxed 6S per cent,
puts on his wool hat taxed Sc per
cent, and is ready for his days
work. His wife puts up his dinner
In a dinner pail taxed 46 per cent;
he shoulders his shovel, spade and
pick taxed 80 per cent. and goes to
his work. His days work ended, he
his weary way home, stopping
at the butcher shop to take a plain
the price of which has in
creased "a per cent during the last
ten years of Republican rule; the
butcher cuts the steak with knife,
saw and ~cleaver. each taxed As per
cent, on a chopping block taxed rs
per cent, and weighs 1t on scales
taxed 45 per cent.