Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-18
HAUSSL|NG HITS
PAY CRITICISM
Mayor Tells Of Wages Paid in
Factory of Republican
Candidate.
CITY AFFAIRS CONDUCTED
ECONOMICALLY, HE SAYS
REPLIES to Statement of P. J.
SchotIand-AIso Speaks OF
Moral Conditions.

j, of Democrats and many
known Republicans listened n ap.
plauded Mayor Jacob Haussling and
other speakers who discussed the
local issues at meetings in three
wards last night. The Huron Cluu
in the Sixteenth, James A. Bray AS
ISOLATION In the Fourteenth, inc
Blindt's Hall in the First ward were
the ones visited.
Philip j. Schotland Wednesday
night declared that the cost OF I'M
ming the City Hall was too high
IT has created a "hornet's nest"
Mayor Haussling took up the moral
conditions of the city and referred
to letters he sent to Governor VIII
son and another nan by h same
name. The latter was Samuel VIII
son, Of the Anti-Saloon League.
The $50, 900 is the total annual out
Law for wages for the men employed
in the heating plant, the six elevator
men, the scrubwomen, the custodian,
janitor. Waterman and others, n is
regarded as q moderate expense for
the size of the institution.
John A. Matthews. candidate for
Assembly, said it was probably the
most economically conducted City
Hall OF its size In the United States,
but that he had no doubt that Mr.
Aronson would do the job cheaper
IL the wages he would pay were in
the same proportion as he paid in
his own factory.
SET met a man recently who worked
in Mr.. Aronson's factory" said Mr..
Matthews. His name is Goldstein.
showed me his pay envelopes for
several weeks and they were a horri-
BILE revelation. At first I thought
this man might have some particular
grievance against MI. Aronson, put
I carefully cross-examined him ana
found that he vas apparently telling
the truth, The number OF hours he
had worked each week and h
amount of money he received for his
labor were marked on the pay en-
velopes.
Tells of "Pay Envelope" Record.
Here is the record:
For thirty-fve hours work........ Mo-
For forty seven hours work........ $3.50
For thirty hours work............. $.0O
For t~hirty-six hours work.......... $3.50
For fifty hours work. .........-... $6.67
For twenty six hours work......... $3.47
."That is not all. There is more of
the same order. The average is about
thirteen cents an hour.
''That is splendid pay for the head
of the family. a man with a wife and
two children. 1t is very evident that
Aronson could reduce the pay roll for
the men and women employed at the
CITY Hall IL this is the sort of wages
he believes In"
Joseph McDonough, candidate for
county clerk. kept up the fire on
Aronson. I'VE are told that a vote
for onso is 'a-vote for the boy and
GIRL" he said. sit is a vote for a
how or a girls wage for a full grown
man. it seems to me. Imagine a man
getting SIS, Sc and 81 a week. When
he paid his butcher bill on Saturday
! night he wouldn't have enough left
| to get q package of cigarettes" Mr.,
! McDonough said a word for each OF
| the candidates on the ticket and
promised that, if elected, he would
| give a clean, careful administration OF
the county clerks office, with the
| same regard for duty as he had
| shown in his long tenure of the office
as town clerk Of West Orange.
II was pointed out by other speak
ers that Mr.. Schotland went far afield
in his criticism of the wages paid al
the City Hall. One Of his criticisms
was that the engineers had sub
~ordinates to oil and wipe the ma
chinery. 1t was shown that this was
the custom in all union shops, no
only the custom, but one of the union
REQUIREMENTS.
MI. Schotland was also taken to
| task for his objection to a 5000 a year
wage for the cleaners, which was de-
clared to be none too much in a
period of high cost of living4 1t was
shown that he misrepresented the sit
| uation when he said that there were
never more than two elevators run
| ming at a time. 1t was pointed out
that there are four running continual
ly. sometimes five, and that the at
tendants are among the hardest
worked men in the building.
FIattering Reception for Mayor.
Mayor Haussling got a f1atterins
reception at all the meetings. He
| expressed his belief that politics was
| responsible for recent charges that
the city IA immoral. It was a
! charge. he said, that he did not in
J tend to let pass unchalienged. and