The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-09
MAYOR HyLAN
FIGHTS TEACHERS
SALARY INCREASE
Compressed Air Slaves
Win Concession

NEW YORK, April New York
organized labor is counting up and
making the balance sheet Of its legis-
lative gains and losses in the state
legislature session just concluded.
The greatest gain is the salary in
crease for New York City's $1,000
teachers, altho the elementary teach
ers, because they are most numer-
Gus, viii continue to be the most
poorly paid. The higher salaries will
not equal the rate paid in 1900, ac-
cording to Henry r. Linville, presi-
dent of the Teachers Union which
fought for the increase. The pur-
chasing value Of the new salaries will
be equal only to that Of salaries in
1914.
The Teachers Union is combating
Mayor Hylan's attack on the salary
increase by stating accurately how
much the city's budget is to be in
creased. Hylan claims $4,000, 600
more will be added in his appeal for
Governor Smith to veto the Ricca bill
Increasing salaries. The union shows
that not over s11.000,OOO more will
be the city's burden, as the state
shares one-ffth.
The Island Hogs"
Sand hogs, or compressed air
workers who make the bores under
rivers for New York subways and
vehicular tubes, won a radical re-
duction of hours of work which their
union expects will considerably les
sen the number of cases of the
bends their occupational disease.
The 6-hour day, in two shifts, is pro-
vided for work at pressure Is pounds
over normal; instead of beginning at
81 pounds PRESSURE The 4-hour day
starts at rs pounds instead of 80,
which gives most Of the workers
4-hour day; mostsof the work is done
under rs to 30f pounds pressure.
Hours decrease with increasing pres
sure up to 4Sapounds, when men can
work only one hour day.
The Compressed Air Workers I'm
ion fought contractors lobbyists be
fore the Legislature to win the re-
auction Of working hours. The union
showed that many cases of the
bends" were listed as rheumatism
or not listed at ALL SO that workers
were deprived Of ieompensation. The
ill goes into effect under Smiths
signature on July l. The governor is
still consideringlwhethe to balk May
or Hylan and sign the bill limiting
the Staten Island tunnel to rapid tran.
sit or to veto It ana allow the original
plan of freight and passenger tunnel
to go thru The union threatened TO
do no work on thfs tunnel unless their
conditions were met by the legisla-
ture. p ou&
Falls To MateriaIize.
The 4s-hour bin for women which
legislators had promised to New
York voters at election time failed
to materialize. A joker Joiner bill
was introduced to Offset the more
satisfactory .Mastfck bill for which
organized labor thruout the state was
nsntlng. women must still work 81
hours in this state.
The ratification of the child labor
amendment likewise failed to ma.
terialize, altho the legislators had
promised that also. A referendum
vote Of the state, which is deplored
on the grounds OF expense and de-
lay, is to be held on the issue.
The New York state anarchy law,
as all criminal syndicalicm and Grim
inal anarchy laws in these states, is
still on the books with legislatures
closing ignoring them. BENJAMIN
Gitlow, convicted in New York under
this wartime invasion of civil rights,
is waiting decision from the United
States supreme court on his case. The
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