Show URGED FOR WORKERS i IN PRISONS Current Current Rates Would Be Paid and Convicts Convict's Kec Keep A AN N D Deducted e d i 4 11 j NI w 1 Y P ORK mK Oct ct I. I 1 Ar I tx In on that hat convicts in the St State e prisons a fair wage wag for their labor in fn prison x y prison shops Instead of ot th the pr p present fate of 11 Ila cents a day is made to Governor In Jo Smith a report of his 1 rison Survey Committee The report r wa a 3 made public yesterday esterday by AdolpH Lewisohn Chairman of the committee f t lor or the work done In prison r ithe he committee would h have ve the state Hate t i Pay Jay the wage current in In similar shops outside th the prison ded deduct ct the cost of the prisoner-laborer's prisoner maintenance and then place the sum to his credit or to t r that of his dependents This plan has been approved also by Samuel Compers Gem Com pers President of or the American Federation Federation Feder Feder- atlon of Labor and other labor leaders who visited Sing Sing- Sing prison recently Woo moo T I MI MIr MIJA II X XI I r According to the report only about 2000 of or the prisoners would be mentally and physically able to per per- pcr- pcr form form orm time full-time productive work The rate of ot pay would be based upon the efficiency of the shop hop and if a prison I Ishop shop were able to turn out only 75 per percent percent cent ent of the of an an outside shop the prison workers would receive receive re- re eive only 75 per cent of or the outside pay Piece work would be paid for at standard rates prevalent in outside shops I j Eighty per cent of th the prison population population I lation has mastered no skilled trade says the report and the cause of or the failure of these mens men's lives is that they never learned to work Their imprisonment In no way has checked the easy current of ot their ways for 91 per percent percent cent cent have been dismissed on the ex- ex expiration ex expiration of ot their minimum sentence their mastery of a trade playing no part in the consideration of their parole M 1 lION IOV For for archaic archaic methods haphazard and low efficiency the com com- f t would substitute modern equipment equipment equip equip- ment and processes standardized productions pro pro- concentrated on a few types and in each cach Industry and trainIng trainIng train- train Ing under skilled formen coupled with vocational instruction In rounding out its Industrial program the committee committee com corn urges ures that the Department of ot Labor Jabor be authorized to make the same examination of ot prison shops as are made now of outside establishments and that the Workmans Workman's Compensation law w be be extended to the prisons s. s Even though organized on tb the efficient ef- ef lines says the report prison labor would never became a menace to free fre labor nor to free Industry as Its Ita products can be sold only to State de department department departments de- de or institution or to those of political divisions of the State Nevertheless Nevertheless Never Never- a considerable market exists Tor for prison-made prison goods as it Is estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated that there Is a yearly demand from the State and the cities of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and anel Buffalo for over work of goods which h could be made in prison shops Besides Mr the chairman the committee includes John John S S. x iven- iven ennedY en- en nedy also President of the Prison Com Committee Helen Hartley Jenkins Herbert Herbert Her Iler- bert S S. S Carpenter Alexander Alexandcr M M. Hadden Hadden Had Had- den Ephraim Kaufmann Adelbert Moot John J J. J and George Geor GeorgeW W W. Alcer Alger counsel |