The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-26

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some neglect of the publicity agent
the donkeyS and asses are omitted.
Points of Progress
Here are some of the points OF
progress" made by the Presidents
Emergency Committees "Old Pros
perity Wagon" as it wends its way
over the ruts and dirt of the streets
of Philadelphia, far famed or ILL
famed city of Brotherly Love, Nam
moth Flop Houses, mass picket ar
rests, huge cuts in wages, scientific
technique in speed-up, and gigantic
mass unemployment, as well as fire.
quent AF'L sell-outs of workers. ....
1. Even Secretary of Commerce
Lamont admits Philadelphia is
hard hit; 24,724 workers out of
work, being 23.8 per cent of all the
workers in the city. These figures
are by no means accurate, the real
total being well over the number
given.
2. Part time employment for
those workers still at work is the
rule, full time being the exception
that proves the rule.
8. Able bodied male adults are
being offered the remuneration of
Is cents an hour by virtually all
concerns along Dock Street and
the water front generally. A 60
hour week Of back breaking toll for
the sum of nine dollars per week.
4. Young girls are being offered
all of So per week, If they are be-
ginners at the New Way Laundry,
49th and Aspen SITS. This is also
very hard toll.
5. Yonkers Tool Co. IF. North
Co., Fourth and Leheigh Ave.
works most departments one and
two days a week with unheard of
wage cuts.
6. The Enterprise Tool Co,
makers of speciality tools, are fir
ing the men and hiring women at
much lower wages. This kind of
work Is very difficult Is there
anything In a name? Yankee tools
produced by Yankee methods. En-
terprise Comparatively enterpris-
ing-against the workers.
7. On the fifth floor of Hale and
Kiiburns, car builders, at 18th and
Lehigh Ave, out of 500 workers
usually working on the floor only
seven are now employed.
8. Henry Disston and Sons Saw
Works employ normally $500 men
and often more, for full weeks
time. The number of workers in
nearly all departments has de-
creased, the time was decreased
first TO three days, then to two
days, then in many departments
to one day. Now In a large number
of departments they work on the
unprecedented "a day a week
schedule.
9. Despite r. G. Dun's optimistic
reports yesterday and today as pub.
lished in the lickspittle daily press
that trade was getting better, / pei
cent have received confidential re-
ports from statesmen from leading
jobbing houses that they sold one.
half the amount of merchandise in
January, 1881, than they did in Jan.
uary. 1880, and that since then, dur.
ing February and March condition.
have worsened. Many statesmen dom
go out at all or for but a few hours
a day, as the expenses are far great
er than anything they can earn These
facts, coupled with the known lay.
offs at leading department stores anc
mail order houses give the lie direct
to r. @. Dun's and Bratdstreet',
prosperity ballyi1oo.
10.-Thousands OF workers are still
on strike IN the textile districts Of
this city and vicinity. and as many
as 200 pickets are arrested in one
day. Oh, yes, Our Old Prosperity
Wagon" It's about to tumble into
pieces