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THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, NOV! $9,000,000,000 PAY RAISE FOR 20,000,000 U. 5. WORKERS (Goutinued from First Page.) got an eight-hour day. ~~ Une Longshoremen are now earning glad te get 0 ao day. from $35 to $65 a week. They To be“in style” get double wages for Sunday doesn’t always holidays, Thi le the highest 6 Goale known to thi me TT. Ve O'Conn oaye they're happy and for Wilson, mean to be comfortable, But style and comfort are twins in every pair of Fownes gloves . . . Good to look at— Good to wear. They also were advanced from 10 to 60 cents a day. Carpenters getting @% In 1915 are now receiving $5.50. Twelve thousands girle In the millinery trades get & per cent. Increases. Henry Ford put the women workers under him on an equal: e ity wi the men ae far as wages are concerned, There ere 1,500 them. They have been FOWNE that’s all you need to know about a GLOVE. receiving @ minimum wage 6 @ day. POLITICAL BUNCOMBE DOESN'T FOOL THE WAGE-EARNER, The thinking worker has no daiu stone alout the prevent wave of prow pertty, He knows that oo proapernty in permanent and that the only sufe and practical wage advance ts that €¢ regoric, Paritor Margaret \ Viotini ADMIS#ION OOMPLIMENTARY, 38th Street Specially Purchas' Models Regularly So! $18.50 Winter-sveight Whipcords Gabardines Fashionable fabrics of fine qual- ity in models of extremely effective styles. Deep collars of French seal add to their smartness. The Suit illustrated at the left is typical Sess en RS 4 hee oh of the models at this remarkably Ri low price, of None C.0, D, No ap; * Very Special Utility Coats $16.50 _ Twonew models in soft “warmth-without weight” Coat- ings. Very tlaring garments strictly tailored or plush trim- med and halt lined with eatin, In rich, dark colorings, Thrd Offered for Tuesday Three Models in SMART BLOUSES Regularly Sold. for $4.95 and $5.95 $3.95 Georgette Crepe Blouses in charming styles. Combined with a most effective novelty lace, Inset with filet lace bands and with panels of silk embroidered, e Trimmed with French satin collars and cuffs } in contrasting color and prettily embroid 7 f mes got through collective bargaining with trades unions. He ta not bilod, either, to the big fact that tho pro- tected Industries of the country have invariably been the first to sinsh wages, and will not be found inactive At the wage-slashing game when tho Ude gradually recedes and events | swing back present progress to another and surer base, But {f ho aceded factacto confirm him in bis belief that it ts best to "it well enough alone,” he has but «to turn back @ few pages of labor hia- tory to discover that the oid cam- balgn argument that the Republicac Party brings good Umea ta just an ar- kument and nothing more, There were good and bad times dur- ing the seven years of ex-President Roosevelt Administration, but in what are ribod as “really prosper ous times” the wage earnera of the country were receiving about 60 per cont. leas, in some instances 40 por cent. leas, than during any period of the Wilson Administration. Strikes tn big aod amall industries were numerous and wages low. The last two years of the Colonel's Admin- istration and the first balf of Taft's, which followed, brought out probabiy the moat discouraging labor reports in the history of the country since Civil War times. The panic of 1907 is more than @ memory. In the “protected”! mill distriote of Massachuretts a Re- publican Labor Department described | partment was “constrained” to admit {the “painful accuracy” of Prof, Scott | Nearing’s review of wage-carning in this country during thé years 1908 and 1610, embracing parte of the Taft and Roosevelt Administrations, “Not more than 10 ent. of the industrial wage workers of the country earn more than $1,000 + one-half lose than §600 « ye siderably lee than what has been computed to be a i wrote Prof, Nearing. © Prof. R. C, Chapin oal- culated that “a man and wife and three children living in New York City could not maintain @ normal standard, at least so far as the physh cal man Is concerned, on an income of less than $900. Prof. Nearing, in his Independent investigation, di vered that in the highly protected ind of Mass@husetts, especially in the mill districts, “from #1 to 81 per cent, of the employees receive leas than $8 a week. This industry te crowded with women, and the presence of women in an industry uaually means low wages.” in many Instances it was found that women worked seven days « week iu the mill districts, The report of the Mansachusetw Labor Department for that pertod showed 350,000 male adult workers Allowing 12 per cent. for anemploy ment, Prof. Nearing found tbat one ven recel: e 2 2 then ° -tenths earn less than $916 ver the wages as “abominably low” and the conditions of employees in towns like Lawrence as “bordering on siav-| ery.” Lord @ Taylor FI@TH AVENUE 39th Stree ed for this Event And Offered at Unprecedented Savings Id at $30.00 to $50.00 tinctly high and deep b majority of (And at each price there are also Strictly Tailored Suits in the assortment) The colors are those most in demand and include “Taupe, Brown, Plum, Green, Navy, Black, Rose, Ruby, Mixtures, Novelty Stripes and Checks, provals, No Returns, —— Fur Collared Waénter Coats $25.00 Bolivar Cloth, a wool plus Burgun y or black, collar of natural raccoon, Flor Half | Sse date saa ah vempanidereeigoesi einige tn ghaptamptapteoassensuasenvenseaes » Women’s Unusual V with fine perfor Fashioned of fine, flexible and iF ee Le a ee Ah ee a en C00 Sn Sw 80 S00 0 ne oo > O00 0 ee ae ee eee Lord & Taylor Announce For Tuesday, Election Day The Most Important Apparel Sale of the Season 350 WOMEN’S WINTER SUITS $22.50 Velour Cloths _Broadcloths Homespuns Plain, check terials of superior texture in dis- which is illustrated at the right. A model e) Featured for Tuesday HIGH-CUT BOOTS $4.85 A Boot modeled on e ations to emphasize its style. Black Glazed Kidskin serviceable; with Louis XVI year, while only one-twelf(h earn over $916. Thus, for the adult mats wage worker of one of the leading Industrial States, the actual anntel Club Luncheon 60 Special Luncheon 5c Luncheon and Afternoon Tea, mm A.M. tos P.M. Tenth Floor 4 | t . {the pay roll The same Republican Labor De-| earnings of nine-tenths are less than acco $000 per year, Half of these workers earn jess than $366 annually; three quarters earn less than #450 .nnual- ly, while only fiftieth earn more han $686 per y During Mr. Taft's last year in of- fice the wage ‘ners of the country had driven home te them with all {te power for rebelilon against greed the lesson of the effect of Sched The Lawrence strike of the firs weoks {n 1912 showed with astoun ing plainness who was the real bene- ficlary of protection—the American Woolen Company or its half-starved employees, men, women and children? Here was a company that denied tho righta of its employeus to organize and refused to give them a Uving wa, Organizers of the A. F. of L were “haunted and hounded,” one re port sete forth, and the workers were finally compelled to accept the “sheltering care of the Industrial Workers of the World.” After ninu weoks’ fighting a Republican Labour Department, under fire of the entire press of the country, compelled tho woollen beneficiaries of Schedule K to advance the wages of their om- Dloyees and reduce the working hours to fifty-four In the waek. The World, In an edit 14, 1912, said: “It ts fro: having done an in} ial of Meron no sense of ce to labor that the mili men now yield. ‘The strike has “brought no proof, where broof before was lacking, that they can afford to pay higher wagos, What the atrike haa done to make It worth this buying off Is to bring the white Uebt of publicity beating down upon the mockery of tariff protection to Jabor and the ‘indefensible’ character of Scheduly K." SORRY DAYS FOR STEEL, PRO- TECTION'S PET, Earnings in the atecl Industry, where the eet ght has bees made ag * entrane of organs ized labor a here Schedule K is a favorite cume in for a ton following an Open rebeitio: other strike, of th Jehem plant in Py A 4 ur of T 's Ad nistration, Kain the Secretary of the Commerce and Labor Department was on the Job, showing up t tween “protect knows It and works re South Heth! tion, There my k The plant at m Was under observa- © 9.184 employees on Charles P, Neill was head of the Commerce and partment. was one of th advisers of t Joint Commit bor De- an hour és consid ausicient com. ensation” and “that the longest hours Fwere found, on the whole, anong the lowest paid workers.” ‘There was no such @ thing a@ an elght-hour or a nine-hour day for this class of work- | Other ‘classi workers re- | celved 18, 20, 80 and 52 cents an hour, | The report shows that nearly one- third of the total numbes of em- ployees were earning $500 a year or loss, while nearly two-thirds were earning $625 per year or less. Of the remaining third nearly all fall below an annual Income of $1,000, leaving only 8.2 per cent. of the total num- ber enjoying a yearly wage in excess of $1,000. All over the steel industry the ‘day of rest’ was a misnomer and seven days a "a godsend." The Interstate Commerce Comeis- sion report on the earnings of rail- road workers of the country during Roosevelt and Taft's Administrations 1s Interesting, There were, du the last half of Roosevelt's Admii tration app! ployeos in t says this ri i and striped ma- grade models. Collars ands of fur trim the Jone- | $1,000 a year.” st less than $600 a year, while less tha nth receive a n that tr aph operators and 28. All of the unorgan had long hours and low Pennsylvania, the roc! publican prosperity Stat encouragement to the w: ho peruses the records of ita own In- ternal Affairs Department. The aver- age yearly earnings of the coal min- ers in the bituminous fields, so the report of 1909 has {t, was fora and twelve-hour day, th rnings of the anthracite! nd this report, it should be borne in mind, covers some of the al- leged “sweets” gotten out of Col Roosevelt's Anthracite Coal Commis- sion—wore $603.85, nearly $22 a year less than the soft coal miner earned, the models, one of | ! ' | h aabric in green, brown, xtremely tlaring with deep ined, if he worked every working day. Iron and steel workers averaged $646 @ year, cement workere 498. There were 06,699 adult females whose an- ual earnings never exceeded $300, 4od 22,394 minors (under 16 yeura of age) with annual earnings of $190. Hut in 1908, the Colonel's gala year, labor went backward, or rather seemed to stand stijl, Labor reports of | that year show there were 8,160,000 men and women idle, That wasn't called @ panio, though It did follo Something akin to tt in 1907, In > York State there were 7 cording to the labor repo was no lack of genuine bread It Lines jus y human as thoy George made a show of foedin ago. And these “lines” were all intt- mately connected with “Republican prosperity y were elther part r Came as in aftermath d be kept In mind that 1908 | Presidential year. Bo ft w w ig three years y it manages to nual year one of blutt with the “protected” and threat, vision always held aloof, ‘Talk of a) nation-wide genera! strike ts as apt to oceur In Republican times as in Laced * alue at xtremely graceful lines —— 0 % \ Den ratic times, but we find it quite and again during Mr. In_ 110 the » 79,000 men 1 Taft was then tn r of his genial rule of yuntry. Nobody explained to the 0 suddenly knocked out of work that action preserved the unity epublican prosperity promised tn 5. Nobody needed over. of a goneral m tall ein Wit, Ratlroads nounced a slash, but some slashed he American mpany 1, In Pitts. na m was spread wf dep n, and during would not jlase Trust hc of R n C burgh the over with wan ¢ hlgt ings of the worker Nthan the earn EMBER 6, 1916. same wage rate they received ten;!ncoming ef years te, and the other balf are beeps 4 2 Pgs to Bamuel Gompers. Only | Trust had raised e wages and they working for not more than a 10 per/and smal a fe onthe before that, the Bteel ‘Wilson the pened and fall. Pagics Were still far frum satistactory. cent, Increase. Yet everything that| period as in as plentiful y Kita period. Liways Tn 191. conditions were such tha® socs Into the home has gone up €0/|the cry of “protective ™ John W. Hayes, Master Workman of/per cent.” Ten years before that|shown to be @ bean vt the Knights of Labor, declired “that| statement was made McKinley wi e worker t' Pen) ae one-half uf the wage-earners of the! the Republican President. From Mc. | him ina P i tg United States ara working for-the Kinley’s Administration down to the him on his Back the year a a ee ee > > ee ee eo ewe ew = CAMMEYER STAMPED ON A SHOE MEANS STANDARD OF MERIT 6" AVE. AT 20" ST. For ‘Election Day Only Tuesday, Nov. 7 A Sale of Men’s Fine Shoes at $3.95 Ma! ogany Russia Cal! and Gun Metal Calf Lace Shoes, built oan English Lust, w th blind eyelets. Alo a B oad Toe | Blucher Maiel in Gun Metal Calf ee we ee se ae ae ae ae ae ee ee ae ee eee ee q A most unusual one-day sale, affording men an opportunity to vel shoes at much less than'their present market worth. q Please note carefully that this sale is for tlection Day only. 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