The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19
PROPOSH,SAvING
$4,000 OUT OF
CITY JANITORS
"Cut Wages" Demand
Church-going Hypocrites

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Sept. IT,
The Taxpayers Association, dummy
organization of the Citizens Alliance
put in a bid to take over city hall
janitorial work at saving Of $4,000
a year. The proposal was brot before
a public hearing of the finance COM
mittee Of the city council held to dis
cuss wage reductions for city workers.
These christian ladies and gentle
men protested the wage that the city
janitors are getting, as being too high.
1t is $125 per month. They want to
cut it down as low as $50 per month,
by substituting women workers for
the present ianitors.
These social hypocrites, said that
great injustice was being done the
ianitors who work for 800 per month,
while the city janitors were paid
S125, as they we're compelled to pay
taxes to help support the higher paid
city workers. According to their so.
phistry, one would think that they
were deeply concerned about the well
fare of the taxed janitors, who are
propertyless, and, consequently, pay
no taxes.
Janitors are Poems
Data furnished the writer by the
Janitors' Union reflects some inter-
esting light on the subject of janit-
ors' wages in Minneapolis. In the
first place, only very small number
of them are paid $50 month those
in big office buildings The vast ma
jority fall far below that wage
The wages range from $65 to $40
month. There are a great number
of janitors who take charge of the
building for the use of an apartment.
In most cases the wife and older
children of the ianitor are included
in the hire of the janitor So that all
the labor power of the janitor's family
is at the disposal of the apartment
owner.
What the Move 10
The propaganda of the taxpayers
association is q screen to cover the
capitalist aldermen in the city council
who are determined to slash the wages
of the city workers. This must be
done under cover of camouflage. 1t
is supplied BIZ the Citizens Alliance.
The attack upon the wages of the
city workers, is, Moreover, another
step taken by the capitalists, to lower
the general standard of living for all
Minneapolis workers. 1t is recogniz-
ed by the capitalists that once the
wage levels of the city workers are
lowered, the other workers win be
deprived of their living standards with
out much difficulty, since the wages of
the city workers were. regarded as a
sort Of general scale for common la
Dor. o.
Smith Smashes Union.
1t is now becoming very plain to all
the city workers, just what the act
ion of Paul j. Smith means, in refer
ence to his splitting up the solid
compact organization of the City and
County Employees Union last spring.
Following closely upon Smith cut
ting up of the union, the capitalist
are also adopting Smiths isolation
tactics, in their war on the city work
ers. They first select one section to
lick. Then, section after section will
follow Since Smith has divided up
the city workers into so many slices,
the capitalists are taking his slices
and chewing them up.
The labor takers who stood by,
while Smith committed this organiza-
tional crime, are now spilling croco-
die tears on behalf of the city work.
ers.
We think that it is not amiss, to
remind the city workers, that croco-
die tears are perfectly worthless to
deal with the crisis, a strong union
putting up united front against the
capitalists, would be an instrument
that could stop them.
1t is to the credit OF the Commun-
lists, that they fought the Paul J.
Smith policy of breaking the solidar-
itv Of tho cffv and eountv warfare