The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1920, Page 15

100,000 IDLE HERE AND LIST GROWING; MOSTLY UNSKILLED |Caruso ’s Jinx | Again Stops His Singing at. Opera By Sylvester Rawling. Caruso's jinx has not bebn exor- cised. The mischievous devil played another prank upon him yesterday. as he ts suave and courteous, Itallan gentleman who manages the institu- tion made a owift change of plan and there was opera as usual, There was no time to print a new pro- gramme, and no official announce- ment was made of the cause of Caru- s0's inwbility to sing, In the lobbies the gossip ran that he had had a reourrence of the stitch in his side that caused him to stumble and fall while singing Canio in “I Pagliacci” a week or two ago, Another version was that Caruso: was suffering from an attack of Inmbago. “La Boheme" Aeolian Hall yesterday afternoon by Bila Dahl Rich and Agnes Hope Pills- bury. Their programme included a Handel concerto and compositions by Rameau, Scarlattd, Mendelssohn, De- bussy, Grieg and Brahms, In the evening, at Carnegie Hall, Jacques | Pintel gave a second piano recital, a} Schumann fantasy and compositions | by Bach, war Franck, Pinte! and | Leschetitz ool Se ee BRITAIN’S EXPENSES TO BE CUT ONE-HALF THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1920 total national expenditures fot the com ing year must be held 60,0805 £950,- 066,600. (normally $3,800,000,000) ax pos- ible the newepeper ava, Nee ne enna pected Jan. 15—“White Collar” Labor Not Hit. That there are now 100,000 unem- the estimate made by Richard A, Flynn, in charge of the State Bureau of Employment in West 46th Street, Most of them, he said, are unskilled and semi-skilled. ‘The number, he expects, will increase until about Jan. %, which he believes will be the peak of unemployment, “Meantime,” said Mr. Flynn, “I am Praying for snow. A heavy full would be a godsend to thousands.” Mr, Flynn said his office was re- celving 500 applications a day from| men and 200 from women. “Wo handie only skijled and semi- skilled help,” he sald. “We have been able to place the greater number of the women and some of the men, Most) of the women are stenog- rephers, clerks and accountants. Their wages show little tendency to drop. That is true genorally of the #0-called ‘white collar’ lavor, ‘White collar help did not share in the boom prosperity with those who wear no| collars, but with their wages station- ary and living costs dropping, they are coming into their own ter | With the exception of such employ- ments as longshore work that are untonized, the wages of the unskilled or semi-skilled are dropping. So far the unlonisea trades have held their wage: J. Phillip Bird, General Manager of the Nat\snal Manufacturers’ Asso- clation, yesterday denied that manu- facturing sasociations were encour- aging sbutdowns and reductions in wages. 24 REDS SAIL FOR RUSSIA. | GMagested With Hourgeois United States, They Declare. | Twenty-four Russian Communists, en Toute to Russia, sailed on the Impera- tor to-day, The Communists surren- ‘dered themselves yesterday at Ellis Island for deportation. Among them was Miss Pearl Powell of Brooklyn| who completed a Christmas shopping tour and then gave herself up. All were loaded down with extra clothing. ‘They will arrive at Libaw in January. Most of the men came here in the last five years. They expresged thom- selves as disgusted with the bourgeois United States, and sighed as if longing for the land of Lenine, whe some said they had already been prom- ised employment Five were thoughtful enough to buy @oap. Another hada Christmas tree and several were loaded down with Christmas presents for their families, who are still in Russia Put A CAMERA in the Stocking 16. (2 and you'resure _ to be right. os Get one at Kodak Headquartere Witouchsy oF te NT ame Cuticura Girls Are Sweet and Dainty |The bill at the Metropolitan Opera Peak of Unemployment EX-| Housé ast night was to have been “L'Elsir “la Boheme.” Mr, Gatt formed at 4 o'clock yes noon that Mr. Caruso w posed to sing Nemorino. Dloyed persons in New York City is| Pe oF 4 change of bill was an excellent instead it was! 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