The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-06
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT MONDAY, MAY g. 1878.


side Of 1t and there find home, and then build
Ing would begin here again and there would be
plenty of work.
Passing along the wharf our reporter noticed
a stout built man. wearing q checked shi rt and
white collar. lying stretched under bench.
his face very much flushed. and his general APP
pea pes Indicating intoxication, Who is that
man. inquired our reporter OF one OF the by
ISLANDERS. 49, c..
he's in sorry plight now"
Why SOP inquired the reporter.
Because remarked the bystanders, hes
been out of work over two months. and atterly
and now you see where he is
Has he famiy2o inquired the rep bos
the matter he couldn't provide for them.
AND THEY WENT HUNGRY
until one day their preacher came around and
found them. and he's helping them some. and
that hurts Fred's pride, too"
What's his professionF inquired the re-
porter.
He's brick mason" was the reply. and 50
am I : but there's no work for us, even if we
try to get u job on the few houses that are going
up. There amt q new house started in town
that there hasn't been fifty men applying for
every place on it. and to-day I'd carry nod or
mortar bucket or anything else that could DO
TO get work. and so would Fred. I'm afraid
he'll go to the dogs If he's lett to st 60 on In sh
them railroads they talked about o couple of
years ago we would all get chance
How so2" inquired the reporter.
why then there would be work In tho dull
months; now for instance, for all the masons
and carpenters and the lahorers, and If some-
thing amt doun-iook outl'
Rep.-Look out for what2
Look out
FOR A DREAD RIOT.
If you want to call it by that name. It's these
troubles whore all the laboring classes unite to
compel the big moneyed men to furnish them
with work or food
Rep-And how will you effect that here2
Don't you remember the railroad strike last
summer? Well, that didn't work we'll because
we wasn't prepared for it as they was in the
North but the next time they will have plenty
here"
Rap.-Any prospect Of that?
Yes there are organizations here now that
will In all number 900 and they are getting
bigger and bigger al the time"
Rep.-Wbat class OF mechanics belong to this
"All that arc out OF job and many one
that's in. They take in clerks, draymen, car
peners. laborers. brakemen and everybody
else"
Rep-Are you a member?
] am not permitted to tell.
Rep,-Is Fred?
II can't answer that either"
Kep.-Suppose they should start
THE NEW ORLEANS PACIFIC
railroad. then what2
Why, we'd MI get somethi ing to do, and then
there wouldn't be anv fuss.
The next man called upon was !aborer, and
when our reporter made known his business
the lahorer told him he was poor enough now.
and didn't want to have his poverty published
III tne b"uti, b,,huSo 'ifi no wv IN go Il
cents credit. and his family would fare even
worse than they do now. He, too, knew Of the
labor organization. although he had not Joined
and from what had been told him by men who
did belong to it. it was to be labor against CAPT
tai.
Tho building Of tho Pacific railroad. he
thought would avert any trouble this year. and
in year after that was built the small towns
would be go numerous and business would in
crease SO here that there would be no
NECESSITY FOR STRIKE
or bread riots.
I'm tell you. said he, its hard on some
and n big lot Of them, too. ] know many who
haven't hal enough in their houses to eat 70,
many a day. and as for extras they haven't had
any for months.
! Passing along the river front and taking in
| three or four streets ick from Jackson or from
Felicity to Toledano, quito n number of tene
ment houses were found by our reporter. anC
in many of them able bodied men were Willing
away the time, the reply to the stereotypeo
question being we can't get work" In some
/ of these places families were fOurd huddled to-
gether in one room, with scarcely anything il
! the shape of furniture. and surely nothing tt
make home comfortable, while in others the
| hungry looks of the half-starved children tolC
! plainly enough the
STORY OF THE DISTRESS
which exists in that locality
| The same may be said of the rear portion o
| the Fourth District where some of the SINAI
| houses, scarcely large enough for one family
I we're occupied ~ three, HHa sometimes fettf
! In this locality hard-fist and able-bOdiet
men were found ready and willing to worl
! were if furnished them. and many. from thei
| conversation, belonging to the labor organiza