The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02

Salaries during the last year v
and also attendants, etc. The first
$40 month, board and room, Will
experience doing nurses work, ETC.,
wages also reduced from $85 and
one meal, living out, which meant
paying for room rent, 2 meals and
often carfare, to $40 a month and
one meal.
Work 12-Hour Day
Now all these employees put in
IL hours day. a. m. to T. m.
with break in the afternoon of
2 hours and a day off each week.
n ~ time II hours straight. After
6 months service you get $3.50 a
month increase, one year SIS a
month. Surely not much.
AS for the food it is usually very
bad and served to you like hogs;
employees are classified and dis
eliminated against; nurses get good
quarters, good food and all kinds
OF privileges and are usually very
supercilious and domineering. They
are trained differently while in the
nurses training school. AS for the
sleeping quarters of the porters and
orderlies, ETC., they usually are a
big dormitory-no privacy, a dis
grace to the New York City Ad-
ministration. In addition to the
conditions under which these work
ers are housed land in addition to
the above expenses, they have to
buy uniforms, pay for laundry, not
only for their uniforms but their
civilian clothes, etc. There are about
Is or 20 city hospitals scattered all
over the boroughs of New York
City. the worlds richest and great
est city-for whom? Visit them
and see for yourself. The writer
has personally seen the conditions
in Kings County Hospital, Bklyn.,
and in Welfare Island.
Tammany Crooks
Previous to the scandal in the
Kings County Hospital, orderlies
and porters got $50 month and
then were raised to $45; since that
time it has been reduced to $40.
The investigation that followed was
farce as far as food and living
conditions were concerned. AS usual
the authorities of the hospital know
when city official is coming, and
are prepared-they give a good
meal then. The city officials should
come unawares, but this cannot be
ev'"''@d since they tell tire authori-
ties when and where thy are COM
ing.
AS you know, the city officials of
New York had their salaries raised
last year; this year the mayor in
creased his own by $4,000 a year
and so on down the line of the en-
tire corrupt city administration.
am writing as an eX-service man;
as a citizen who believes in and up
holds the constitution of the United
States. A great number of people
today are trying to suppress the
Constitution, many of them ere
workers who keep their fellow
workers in subsection because that
is the only way they can make
living. They must be suffering
from an inferiority complex. /
shall 'ote a 1 " more facts some
other time for !. do not want to take
ur any more of your valuable space.
Good Luck
Good health, luck and success to
you and all the staff in your noble,
self-sacrificing work for the eman-
cipation of the proletariat and to
educate them to have superiority
complex and not to have an inferi-
GRITTY complex as most of the work.
ers now have, even though they
have made and produced everything
on this earth.
Yours fraternally,
FRANCIS BOSTON.
P. S.-The "Chief," civil serv-
ice newspaper published in Beck
man St., N, Y. C. wrote some time
ago that all N. Y. City employees
would have to be citizens and that
the "Chief" would publish in the
following weeks issue the salaries
Of N. Y. c. hospital employees. It