The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-06

to make room for the more needy.. Similar
n Widows who carts and want hem
employed by the contractors on the plea OF
poverty on the part Of their owners. who have
pieces Of property. One of the drawbacks to
the mechanical trades is that no new bui ldings
are going up, Stone cutters, for example, VII
work for anything they can get, there is so little
doing In their line. Pretty much the same can
be said of carpenters. brick masons. painters;
ec ye the ees may
not more than 81 80. The ordinary laborer gets
Fl 25 from the, street contractors and works
generally about twenty days In the month.
Some laborers. he hears, get as little as 81 o
day. As far RS he knows, there is no trade
organization among these people. nor does
lief is being afforded to the workingmen
by the work along the line of the Lake
and Park Railroad and it would be great boon
the Morgan and Texas Railroad and on the
New Orleans Pacific Railroad was begun at
hundred mechanics and laborers, who will have
but little, if anything, to do during the summer
months,
THE PROUD POOR
We CLEAN the following from a person who
has been connected for many long years with
works of charity. and more especially among
the Creole class go OF our population: Here we
tirely omitted again. 1t is nevertheless true
that great deal of suffering and distress has
prevailed among our Creole people. many fam
lilies of whom were in easy circumstances. and
even In some cases opulent. not many years
ago. We learn that there is scarcely an o 10
its branches in abect poverty. Whilst In
many cases their condition is due to the want
Of father or other male head, there are stu
many others that number healthy and will
ing mon among them but who fail to get
employment adequate to meet. the absolute
necessities of life. One case is given as an ex-
mother and five children who have for many
months; subsistted on 50 week. the product of
the fathers labor for eleven hours work day.
And yet this. man was rich on"e, and received a
good education. He is competent to perform
tho duties usually devolying upon a clerk in a
commercial house, for he has been in business
on his own account. Yet. sftnr vain anheavOrs
to obtain employment In the line of business
for which he is adapted. he has ut lost been
compelled to accept an occupation pm ely me-
chanical, requiring no judgment, knowledge or
art. ut fifty cents day.
How about the women of the class that vour
society visits and relieves?' we asked. Can
they not give helping hand by taking in sew
ing. for exampe2"
"They do bptmes,' answered our informant;
but they cannot got enough work to alter their
pecuniary condition"
Question Well. how do they manage to get
along?
Answer-Thev manage to do 90 by our assist
ance, The entertainments we give periodically
each family, according to their size and reeds.
But you have no idea of the deIcacy which we
have to employ in certain cases TO, offer
mother who applies TO us. but with the earnest
Injunction that, her daughters or their
ssTs th or other raa tTe shall 1sa ye
they will not even apply to their relatives for
assistance, frequently from fear Of bringing
peeuniary embarrassment upon them. or, in
their own words, taking the bread from the
mouths Of other peoples children to give to
their own. It occurs even, frequently that we
have to hunt no these proud poor" for they
would never seek relief themselves at our
hands.
Q-Is this condition Of recent existence?
Nh hnJI 4, fySrnT, tuf Won re hnn
connected with the association, and although
the number of these poor families has in
creased of late years. poverty has always pre-
vailed TO greater less extent within the
| scope of our labors.
In the Third District.
Our representative canvassed the Third Dis
trict in order to get at the true inwardness' Of
He found great difficulty In getting any infor-
nation from the parties living In that District.
Many poor resid ents of the Old Third are per-
sons who, though now laborers. yet have seen
better times, and refuse to give their names. or
extend any OPTION rs to the present state Of
affairs They say that they will not have their
names In the papers because it would look as
| II they were asking for charity. etc.
Others conyersed quite freely with the re-
porter, but, when asked for their names, were
afraid to give them, as they think 1t might put
them in trouble
# seems however, from tho generHf tenor IF
| the interviews. that there ia now on foot secret
organization similar to tina. now existing In
Cincinnati and called the United Sons of La
/
Iast summer. and counts fully 5000 members
1 here. The idea Of this society is to form re-.
to all mportations of foreign hands on tho
| ground that Louisiana has more idle men than
/ shn can employ.
/ Our representative met
MR.. ALFRED Il. RINGE.
young man who follows the trade Of caruen-
/ ter. and who resides at No. 247 Johnson street.
Mr.. Ringe though n hard working Intelligent
mechanic: has not beea able since one year to
/ Hv,d cGr f,lf,,yy 1GF,f not hyv u
ed on the Burnside plantation, In st. James
parish. and left because his job was over. He
says that the trade is very dull now. and 10 OK
reduced to work at ty-hye cents less per
day. The architects of New Orleans do chenp
work and do not pay their employees, and Mr.
| emp Logged here.
There are many carp,enters who are out O
| regular work now, and who manage to get
along only by doing odd Jobs.
The Fourth District.
Are you out OF work ?" inquireda DEMO
Graf reporter Of u labor ng man sitting on =
piece of mast timber on the wharf ut tho head
of Jackson street.
DO you suppose I'd be loafng out here il
wasn't? y was the response.
That am not able to say anything about,
| replied the reporter: adding. / merely de-
sired to ascertain from you the number of your
acauaintanees among the laboring class. Whc
are out Of work"
This seemed to touch the spot. for Mr. Rob.
ert Wadringer, n carpenter, the party addressed
looked ND and snid. Can yon give me or any
of us work to do2 Do it. for Gods sake, if yor
can, as all have dear to me on earth are even
now suffering
No. | cannot give you work" replied our
| reporter. and Mr.. Wadringar'S countenance
changed as suddenly as it had frightened no.
| How long have you been out of employ
ment ~ continued the reporter
/ We'll. | might
SAY FIVE MONTHS"
was the answer but then have got here and
there odd job, making dollar some days
by patching u fence, repairing shed OF
something of that kind, Just enough to keel
body and soul together. but them kind Of Jobs
are mighty few because there are SO many OF
them looking them up and where you never
used to see man going about the streets in the
middle of the day. with n hammer, saw and
jack plane in his hand. now you SEQ plenty OF
them go round up here like them tinners- a. fix,
all trying, to get something to do"
And why don't you GO over the river. and try
the ehipyards ?" added the reporter
Try the shipyards Good Lord, man, have
been there two or three times q week. but
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