Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-27
DISTRIBUTION OF LABOR.

That Il the Real Industrial Question-The
West Pointer in Time Of Peace-Plsnty
| of Bsrba Fritchies-Havtng More Than
| One Once.
ffHoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT, -
-'sThe labor problem" I" remarked polit-
fcal philosopher from Western New York,
mot only puzzles the student Of economics
| in your big cities, but it tries the soul of the
| agricultural bosses. own some large farm
| ing tracts in the Northwest and West and
understand pretty thoroughly the condi-
| tions that prevail there as well as in the in
| terror ofour own State. There are hungry
hordes Of unemployed men and women in
every large city in the land. am assured
that there are 80, 600 unemployed in the city
of Chicago alone, and probably as many
here In New York. The same holds good
proportionately in other cities. Not the
Same persons all the time, perhaps, but an
average-some working to-day and some to-
morrow-for q few weeks or few months
another set being idle while these have
work. and so on. When we consider the still
greater number who labor at recompense
SO slender that it serves merely to keen soul
and body together-who live practically in
perpetual bondage to their daily necessities
this view is appalling.
"As matter OF cold fact there is employ
woman in the United States-remunerative
employ. There is more territory and
more interests suffering to-day for want of
laborers than there is territory overcrowded
or interests oversupplied. There are
vast sections of this country where 1t is
actually impossible to obtain help, male or
female, and where that is we have arrested
development. 1 know it to be a fact that
within II hours of Chicago enough help cam
~
tions. There are no farmhands to be had,
although homes and good pay are onered on
yearly contracts. There are no house serv-
ants to be hired for love or money, and the
well-to-do are obliged to do their own wash.
ing and other homework. The absence Of
help is as marked in all the small Western
towns Ain the country.
"The trouble IS just where the trouble is
with contracts-the question of exchange.
People are freezing to death within few
hours Of coal regions: other people are starv.
in Kansas. Our grain rots in the shock for
mouths and idle hands are within days
travel Of US. The high daily wages Of manu-.
young men, and once there they will never
return. The children would rather live in
garrets in the city than go on farm and
problem is to eQualiZe things-to draw or
the surplus from the congested points and
spread 1t over the deficient spots. If the So
work earnestly together. to that end the
labor problem might be solved. / do not say
1t could be accomplished without the CO
operation of labor, for it couldn't. You can't
take an unemployed man or woman from
the streets Of city and compel him to &C
cept work and home. You can't make him
stay # you get him. II you could do that the
labor world. The employers of labor don't
want it settled. The sharper the compes
tition the cheaper they get their work
DONE"
A Race Track In Central Park.
The New York Legislature has decided
that 1.-THE rich man may ride in chaises and
the poor man be chaises kin walk thai the
owners of road horses may have o 7O-foot
speeding track cut through Central Park at
public expense, and the people who don't
can walk under the road through tunnels or
over 1t by way of bridges, or get run over
and people who can't see that the latter
have three choices to the formers one are
are disposed to kick about it, Well, well;
this is a hard world to satisfy. Some people
would kick at anything. The other day q
terrible din was raised because the Legisla-
ture proposed to set aside Fifth avenue
for carriage and other vehicles of pleasure
and to forever bar that aristocratic
thoroughfare against vulgar trucks deliy-
cry wagons and other wheels Of trade. This
was called un-Amerfcan and other hard
names. I don't just NOW remember whether
1t was proposed to allow trucks, ETC., to
cross the sacred roadway devoted to Amert-
can royalty OF not, or whether the scheme
embraced tunnels and bridges as means of
getting on the other side Of It; but it is quite
people were to be allowed to walk on the
sidewalks and to continue to risk their
necks and run the gauntlet of the amDu-
lance surgeons by crossing the avenue on
foot.
What does a man who has to walk want
the earth for? Have the rich no rights we
are bound to respect? Now, here IS this
dog caves in the other. What is 1t here for,
anyhowa To amuse, entertain and rejuve-
nate the public. But where does the big
hearted, rough-and-ready, all-'round sport
come ins And where is provision for his
multitudinous friend, the sucker with a roll?
To remedy this want of foresight on the part
the hindsight Of a rural Legislature comes
in with race track. A road for speed
horses" sounds more religious, but 'tauthor-
lied" or "ofncial race track of the State OF
sheds, the grand stand, the quarter stretch,
the wire, the quarter posts and the book
makers will all come along with the track,
then Central Park will begin to be a real
attraction. Long live the great and good
Legislature! "They're OFF,
An Aid to Busy Business Men.
"A good many business men OF this city
have two, three and some four different of.
fees. Sometimes these are four or five
miles apart. Colonel Dan Lamont, ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland's former private secretary,
has three offices, and while in the city can be
found at certain hours of the day at his Of
flee uptown as President of the Broadway
Railroad and downtown as something else.
There are well-known lawyers here who
have two offices and handle wholly differ
ent class of business at each. Interested in
big corporations a live business man often |
necessarily has Office hours at the corpora |
tion offices of the respective concerns. This |
not only enables him to discharge his mind |
OF all other branches of his business while |