The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-11-14

To rfE USE1PLoYED-A WORD os ADvrE.-
The Employment Bureau Of the Young Men :
Christian Association requests y 70 publish the
following sensible advice to the unemployed;
Our city has Seen blessed with uau sua pros.
peritr during the past season heavy crops and
building enterprises OF AT excessive character
have created large aernand for labor ard
clerks. Yet, with all this, there are probably
one hundred persons seeking employment 70
every vacancy that occurs, and matters daily
become worse. Such has been the influx Of
persons seeking employment that there Is al
ready much distress Navigation H. now nearly
closed trade is falling of, and our business
men complain; the setting in Of winter viii
stop building operations, and besides the pres
ent surplus probably 10000 men, chiefly in the
lower walks OK life, will be thrown out Of work
70 worry through he winter as best they can.
II Is, therefore, useless for young men from the
country or other cities 70 come 10 Chicago
seeking work. IL is especially disastrous for
families with only their labor to depend upon to
leave places v here they have even a itele 10 do,
and where Their long residence gives them an
additional claim upon the community. NaSe
are 90 poor as the poor Of or cities. Cur pub
Tic charities are.already tsxeA 70 their utmost
10 aid our own people, and the most that can
be done for strangers IL 10 aid them in return
to their former hSh8es. We urge such as are al
ready here to seek employment for the Ki1laaI
on farIas or in country towhs ana ssasN4eit ~
want that stares tHe9a6u ie4aaee.
A DAsTAEDLY cHARsr-7-I Last
Jog FIRE broke cus-in the e1iss,av5 Boot 81
shoe mandatory Of Whitney Brothers Yundt
corner Of Maple and North Clark streets tn
building being large wooden structure, u
flames obtained considerable headWay sbsfor
the FIRE department. were ON hand. Thong
eventually subdued, the upper story was entirel
destroyed, and the FIRST and second storie
thoroughly saturated, damaging. If not dsatro.
Ing, the stock on hand. But cur object intner
tioning this matter il to refer to the coward
insinuation II the papers, inserted no doubt, I
the rstigation Of the proprietors, that the bulk
ing was fred BY some Of the employees, becsrl
their wages had been reduced. When we stai
that tools to the amount Of $4,000, the prope
" Of the employees, were destroyed, cur readel
can place their own valuation such a charg
But, besides sustaining such loss, the me
he We necessarily been thrown out Of winter
employment, so looking at the matter from
purely selfish standpoint, the controlling inf
ence in such ma,.ers the question is EAST
answered, whether or no such charge is CO
sistent with reason or common sense.
Now, il Is about time the other side Of Il
story should be told Ever since the organic
ton Of the Shoemakers' Protective Union d
firm, Whitney, Bros.--the Yundt being a !
Gently attached appendage--have been co
stantly in hot water. 10 fact, we have been
formed that they have given the OrgauiEati
more trouble than all the boot and shoe man
facturers in town put togeihur. Never sat
fed, always exactingr always growing and
ducing, their name has become a by-word a
reproach among the disciples Of ST. Crispin.
Now, it is we'll known that il has been tbei
tentlon for some time past to establish ms
moth cooperative boot and shoe mannfaetG
in this city, she organization 70 which th
workmen. belong, partAking more Of coop
alive than d protective character And ~
Al institution located ID che metropolis Of !
west, there Is every fsasop 70 believe Nenld
,ry apt 70 make serious inFoads upon thes
ceibts Of Messrs. W.B.&Y. Bot % maxi
long story short, IS suspicious are tle eaaeE
xhe day, u Il not quite as likely tkst the 1Ea '
the work Of those Who we're covered W 4 a
insurance. a S7ses0, 40 the work ~ ten
man, who have besa depA5sd ibsfsl'y bi ~
daily bseadf Thisinaendo business = k'spl