The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-06-29
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6s1g~Isaeor appears To be, il all the north
IN States, greatly depressed. The want
q employment among all branches ct me
clanics aud ltborers, in all parts OF the
country, is the subject of remark in the pa
pers. The depression is almost rs great at
the Vest as AT the East At New Albany,
q lasre nul,ber Of mechanics aud labOrers
are raimployed; they talk Of leaving the
city, but they are pefplexed to learn where
% 60, n improve their condition. In In
dianaFolis, and many Of the large towns Of
the STATE, the same state Of s.asnation in
labor prevails. The papers from various
points contain remarks Ike tho following;
There are more men cut Of employment
IL Cleveland now, than there ever were be-
fore at this seasor. They must 1--WE, and.
are willing. to work cheap. Something
should DC done Immediately towards pro
yiding work for the needy and deserving
mechanic aud laborer.'
I'm Chicago there are ten men seeking
employment where only On can get it
Inc city labcrers there are now working for
half a dollar day, aud thousands are al
most starving for want Of work.
Farmers in northern Illinois are bring
men at eight dollars a MONTH"
- In Buffalo, hundreds of men are out of
employment and in Detroit the same.-
Hard times have come again.
We have private letters from a correspond
ent, who has visited the recently active
and fouriShiDg towns above ST. Louis, on
the Mississippi, who says there is almost an
entire suspension Of business and improve
rnents in those places, and laborers are suf-
fering severed, for the lack of employ
by which TO earn something.
As Evidence of the depression of labor at
the East, it is stated that in letting Of a
short grade on one of the railroads in Sew
York, only 20 miles long, there were more
than 900 bids for it, at rates that would
have been ruinously low, year ego.
AT Chicago the city authorities are over
whelned with applications for employment
at BALI . dollar per day. In all parts o
Wisconsin labor. is cheaper than ever known
In Davenport, Iowa, whose prosperity we
have heard 50 much Wanted, they have re-
Gently had starvation demonstrations among
the iaborerS.
y party Of some tao hundred laborers
who are out Of employment formed them
selves into a procession in Davenport, Oh
Friday week, and marched to the residen.
ces Of several Of the wealthiest citizens, auc
to the Office of Mayor Cook, demanding
work, declaring thai they must either be.
come charge iron thu county or Starve
unless they car get work immediately
Those addressed promised 10 60 their best &c
devise some method for their relief
The losses which the country is now suf-
Tering from the unemployment OF labor,
ing men is far greater than the whole
amount of debts that was lost by the panic
sf last year. II would not be extravagani
10 estimate that there arc half million Of
hands now idle, who, if employed, would
create daily property to the amount of on,
million, if fully employed. One year idle
ness Of such an army of laborers will MAX,
a difference of vast sum in the nation
wealth and resources.
Happily, for our own city, business J
prosperous aud labor is fully emPloye,
among US. The difficulty here is not to &c
employment by the laborer, but to get la
Dor done by the employer. This city ha
never doue in any previous season, so larg
and prosperous a commercial business, an
in no previous year has there been create
indication of growth and improvement