Earnings and Wages Steadily Declining, Labor Bureau Finds
Earnings and Wages Steadily Declining, Labor Bureau Finds ACCORDING to the July Issue Of "Facta tor Workers," published by the Labor Bureau, Inc., 2 west 48 street, N. Y. C, "The most recent...
...A promenade, which skirts the theatre, la built over the lake, while the theatre Itself Is ideal for Summer theatrical productions...
...Earnings and Wages Steadily Declining, Labor Bureau Finds ACCORDING to the July Issue Of "Facta tor Workers," published by the Labor Bureau, Inc., 2 west 48 street, N. Y. C, "The most recent numerical tabulation of wage-rate changes, that of the month ending April 15,1932, shows three Isolated increases and 691 decreases in scales...
...They paid the record low price for the hogs from which this pork was produced...
...These were "Salome," "Petrouchka," "El Amor Brujo," and "The Prodigal Son...
...The consumer will have to pay more for bacon, ham, salt and fresh pork, sausage, lard, etc...
...A new note will be brought Into this performance by having the audience participate in the singing...
...The purpose of this meeting is for new members to become acquainted with one another and thereby inspire them to new and intensive activity...
...And these 13 bushels of corn can now be bought for $2.00—a...
...Gluck-Sandor and Felicia Sorel, who established the Dance Center as a permanent theatre of the pallet, successfully projected four ballet productions during the season just closed...
...Receipts of hoga at the chief markets are the lowest since the depression began...
...While the Department of Agriculture has Issued no exposure of this fraud—doubtless because the Secretary of Agriculture Is campaigning for Hoover and his "prosperity just around the corner" gospel—farm experts In Washington are freely discussing the affair...
...There Is little to choose between what the two parties offer labor, but the Democratic platform Is probably several shades the better because of its more liberal and broader approach to the immediately pressing problem of unemployment relief and the stimulation of employment, and because of its generally more straightforward expression...
...If the farmers were able to produce a big crop of hogs and sell them at the recently Inflated prices, the price of cbrn would be rising, Instead of falling, the experts declare...
...Neither platform offers a specific and immediate hour-reduction program, and neither platform declares Itself in favor of maintaining wage rates under reduced hours...
...The total volume of employment fell four per cent from April to May...
...They point to the total annual production of hoga, calculate the gain to farmers In the present rise in prices, as applying to the annual total crop of hogs, and say that Hoover statesmanship has laid this gift on the farmers' doorstep...
...February this year was the only month in which there has been an advance...
...Pork produced from this cheap corn will not sell at the present price of hogs...
...The smalleat decrease, 4 per cent, was reported In the telephone and telegraph group...
...Besides speeches, refreshments will be served Every new member is urged to attend...
...Program of Dance At Camp Tamiment Open-Air Theatre Felicia Sorel and Gluck-Sandor, originators and directors of the Dance Center, will produce several of their dance creations at the Tamiment Theatre at Camp Tamiment Saturday and Sunday, July 23d and 24th...
...This was a heavier monthly decline than that of earnings but comparison with May, 1931, shows the same 20 per cent shrinkage...
...That Is the test by which they find the Hoover hog prosperity to be hokum...
...In 1931 the May employment level was off 15 per ceirf as compared with 1930, and 1930 was 11 per cent off from 1929...
...The platform of neither party recommends the establishment of an efficient nation-wide free employment service...
...On all forms of social Insurance the Republican platform is silent...
...Of the number of workers covered over 19,000 or about half were reported to have gone on the five-day week...
...And the appalling part of the current picture Is that in the face of the drastic declines of the past two years there is no relief in •ight "Neither of the party platforms of the two leading parties can be considered satisfactory to labor either from the point of view of an emergency policy or of a longterm program...
...In the nonmanufacturing industries, one establishment In the retail trade group reported an advance during the month Interval...
...Golob In hts recent Town Hall recital...
...Thirteen bushels of corn are calculated to be equivalent to 100 pounds of pork, when the corn Is fed...
...On the morning of the 24th Gluck-Sandor will give a resume of his lecture series, "Origin of <$he Dance," delivered at Columbia University, the lecture to be Interspersed with personal Illustrations...
...the biggest in dyeing and cleaning...
...low record price...
...M. Bolotin, violinist...
...Sunday evening the Theatre Workshop will present "Farewell Supper" by Arthur Schnitzler, directed by Jo Gerson, and during the day the Complnsky Trio v' give an Intimate recital of eh ber music In the Pine Grove < air theatre...
...The remaining averages ranged from 7.4 percent in the crude petroleum field to 18.5 per cent in canning and preserving...
...This raid by the big meat packing concern* on the consumers is that by the time they can market the next crop of hogs the public will have shifted Its buying, to some extent, from pork to other meats, and the packers will announce that hog prices are going down again...
...The only manufacturing group in which workers' earnings exhibited a monthly upswing was that of transportation equipment, but even in spite of the gain from April to May, this May's level was 12 per cent below that of a year ago...
...It Is directed by Edward Downes, who stage-managed a number of Elmer Rice productions, and It was recently the scene of a fiesta arranged by the "Americana" group of artists...
...Cuts were reported in each of 14 groups except anthracite mining...
...Moreover, they point to the claim that the wholesale price Index of commodities, for June, showed a 4-polnt rise...
...No renewals of wage agreements were reported by trade unionists or government employes during the period surveyed—that of February to May...
...Neither platform comes out courageously for the vast construction program necessary to create Jobs, or for direct federal aid, in any amount necessary, to care for the unemployed...
...The trick in the quotations for hogs Is that there are none for sale...
...Mildred Macdonald, soprano, and Ernest Shapre, baritone, recently with "Hey Nonny Nonny...
...These cuts averaged 10.8 per cent...
...Party Member* to Hear Waldman and Solomon In the studio of the Hand School on Wednesday, July 20, at 8 p. m., all new members of the party who have been admitted since January 1, 1932, will gather to hear Louis Waldman, candidate for governor, and Charles Solomon, candidate for United States Senator welcome them into the party...
...The big packers have on hand a huge surplus of fresh and processed pork and other hog products...
...The essential fact Is that the price of corn, which is the economic -basis for hog prices, Is still falling, and It Is now at the lowest point on record...
...But the spectacular rise in • the price of non-existent hogs is being exploited by the Hoover campaigners...
...They expect the big national farm organizations to Issue a blast against the Administration for its pretense that the rise in hog quotations Is a sign that farm prosperity Is coming back...
...With the widespread wave of wage-cutting, earnings continue to register monthly declines...
...Golob, Lazar Freed, Madam Naomi Ritter, Willie Roaenbloom and Leo Robins...
...By creating an artificial high price for hogs they laid the basis for advancing prices for all pork products...
...A novel program Is being arranged for Friday by Solomon Golob and Lazar Free, which will consist of szmeeres and will Include folk songs by Mr...
...Neither document mentions child labor or minimum wage laws...
...the Democratic, vague and narrow...
...For Saturday, July 16th, the featured artists will include Manuel Complnsky, violinist, ahd Alex Complnsky, cellist, both of the well known Complnsky Trio, as well as Solomon Golob, Hebrew composer with Madam Naomi Ritter, Danish-Yiddish singer, who accompanied Mr...
...In every month since then further recessions in average per capital earnings appeared...
...Over three per cent of the manufacturing establishments reported decreases in rates of wages...
...Meanwhile -the farmer who buys provisions has to pay part of this tribute, although he sold bis hogs at prices far below the present level...
...Associated with Miss Sorel anB Gluck-Sandor in the week-end programs will be Gene Purell, pianist...
...They have appeared In concert in all of the leading capitals of Europe and America, and recently were starred In the "Nine O'clock Revue...
...Neither one promises labor the right to organize without interference of the courts...
...Music anil Drama Feature Unity House Week - End Unity House at Forest Park, Pa., the vacation resort operated as a non-profit venture by the International Ladles' Garment Workers' Union, continues its policy of bringing to its weekly Saturday night concerts outstanding personalities in the realm of music...
...From April to May, the latest period for which figures are available, there was a shrinkage of one per cent, leaving the total average of workers' earnings at a point 20 per cent below the contrasted total of May, 1931, which In turn Whs off 10 per cent from May, 1930...
...The farmers have sacrificed their livestock, because of poverty, until they have none but the basic breeding animals...
...The Tamiment Theatre, which began a summer schedule of guest entertainment* several weeks ago, is a semi-open-air theatre seating 1800, built on the shores of Lake Tamiment...
...Administration Boasts, of Rise In Price of Non-Existent Hoge WASHINGTON— (FP)~O n e of the most cold-blooded robberies of the consumer public ever attempted by a commercial interest in the United States Is that which the big met packers are conducting, under pretense that the price for hogs has advanced rapidly in recent weeks...
...They fall to point out that the 50 per cent rise in hog prices Is reflected four times in that Index—as livestock, fresh meat, hog products and lard...
Vol. 14 • July 1932 • No. 3
