New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-17
UNEMPLOYED LABORERs
Skilled. Imagined totals.

renort comments as follows on the above figures
may he claimed that June the wrong month in
scnitlraI districts laborers busy then. True
~ 4 should be remembered that then the shutdown
Hills oi the State still shut down, ard the shoe
A,iee anil while now very many of these mills are ia
erafiOn aud the shoe factories busy everywhere II
5e amount related TO August instead OF June l. Inc
tata yould not be One-han large as that given As
rms investigation relating 70 June i, 1875 eorOborates
he results Of the investigation OF November ana Deeeh-
~ 1877 the latter criticism falls
O1 I9ae in Fail RIVER besides the skilled and unskled
arkmeF accounted for IN the table, there were 5000
Wen and children OF both under eighteen years
~ age operatives out of work. 1900 OF which number
we're out on account OF tile transactions OF TWO hel
Most of them now have some employ ment =,
Fall River has more absolute suffering thau an
the rest the state; but II was tue result Oh speca
Se cyerseers Of the poor in various cities and towns
eort less demand for assistance than Tor some years
nast This evidence Is incOntrOveruble 80
we do not wish il TO be understood for moment that
40 Inf thew are not starving and Venture the
ounon they are not SOLDERING Of 1000 10 the
ne popular estimate would lead us TO imagine ana the
number now OF employment is not much larger tnah
Inc testimony Of officials in very many cases was
thar n large percentage OF those out OF emplOyntn
Would not work If they could, would not work for
less than tie wages Of five years ago. The people are
ig on smaller wages, learning to live within the
means and trying to adapt their wants 70 te Cltculn
stances m which they find themselves; the nah1Iac
tsrer Is trying 10 keep his industry alive, rs making
every cfolt to keep his employees at work lhey nave
be cured by constantly telling them now slcA tney are
certainly not by making them DeheVe IhC5 iS i
they really are. we nave hdu enough "a
hvpOehOndrfa aud it is time the pubic recognized tS
cfs I'M me case and acted accordingly. The INDUSTRIAL
Efaqnation aud depression has been, ana is, 50 TIe
encur: but every sign indicates sure recuperalOh Inc
peepe are growing stronger every month"; anu %HHS
his country will not lump into prosperity, IL VIII hd
along during the next SIX OF Twelve ot7
bsn if would have believed possible SIX months ago
M the assurance from every han0 ny reports 10
FMS oes from all parts of the Commonwealth that tne
employers labor starting up or preparing 70 start
mo rms Fail Occasionally we still hear OF WOIAs Gus
ing but these reports grow less and less ireqneht
Ne have considerably studied most OF th6 tneOLVs
advanced for hard tines but nave Geeh ehtIcy uuaOo
III formulate the causes alleged II any one ls pfOut
nent It Is TO found in exaggerated personal cteuit
cOrOllary of this, exaggerated STATEMENTS VI
the ils that are upon lie at tue foundation OF Ma
ism always thriyes upon reckless ana eXaggelueu s'
ments as TO reality. So when through business Ia
nres which force readustments OF values, the
mails OF our Nation to large eXteut, nave eAllchteu
emselves from the business chaos TO which their own
imitation has carried them, then VIII come geneial pOs
Dsrty This state OF affairs is comingi aud tue asseI
non made, not alone upon the recent investigation IN
this state, but the result OF personal lhguAc9
eeryatiOns made during the home canvass III nearly al
the New-E England States, all the Middle states, the
GOufhelu Atlantic States except flOflud anu III the
great States OF OHIO, Indiana Kentucky Iehhssee anu
Georgia and from extensive inquiries OF travellers from
the West aud Southwest No region but from come re-
DortsOf business reyyasOW as We nave salu CUT sure
recuperatiOn and u right the people should know the
facts The State caunOt enforce prosperity.
TINS Is national question: and from the statement OF
the unemployed Massachusetts, We are ADe 70 he
NEST careful estimate for the Whole country, although
wifi the exception Of New-YOrk and Pennsylvania,
than any other State because her industries are so
largely artificial On the basis given, the unemployed
IN The whole United states reaches oIOOOO9 nui0et
TOO vast altogether but small compared Win 0,OVVVOV
The absurdty Of tie 5000 coo statement Is readily seen
when IL Is known that there are but about lOOVOOVO
peOpe in the country engaged in productive industries