Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-09
NO MORE FREE FOOD.
lndiscriminate Giving Makes Vien-
nese Workingmen Lazy.
BREAD is BATTERED FOR BEER.
More About the Rioting Among the Unem-
ployed at Dantzig.
IQUEER COLONY OF RIP VAN WfNKLES

VIENNA, March a-The indiscriminate
distribution of free bread in that city is
having the effect of making workmen lazy.
Some large factories are now unable to
engage sufficient number of iaborers to
carry on operations. In many cases it has
been found that persons receiving free
bread have afterward bartered it for gin.
Consequently the police of this city have
issued orders forbidding the further distribu-
tion of free bread here to persons who are
out of employment and are in needy cIrcum-
stances.
A dispatch from Leipsic states that the
discomfort among the large number of un-
employed workmen in that city is spread
ing. There is no doubt that the fight be-
tween the moderate and extreme Socialists
has much to do with with the personal
troubles, The young party of Socialists are
outspoken in their support of demonstra-
tions, while the moderates deprecste any
attempt at violence.
Incendiary Speeches to a Mob.
On Sunday last several hundred of the
Workingmen attempted to hold meetings, at
which some of the speakers denounced the
Government and called upon the working
men to assert their manhood and force the
authorities to do something to relieve their
distress. The riff-raff of the city was, of
course present, and no little disorder was
manifested, but the police found no diff
Guilty in breaking up the meetings, and
quiet was soon restored.
The Socialist agitaters continued their
arguments whenever the occasion offered,
In beer shops and other places where the
unemployed congregated, and finally, il was
determined to attempt to hold meeting to-
day In the market place. Consequently
large number of men out of work gathered
at the place designated, many of them at
tending simply because they desired to defy
the authorities.
Several speeches had been made, when a
large force of mounted police appeared and
ordered the crowd to disperse. There was
some little threat of resistance, and few
of the leaders called on the men not to be
driven by the hireIings of the Emperor,
but the crowd manifested no great desire to
bring about a collision, and the police had
little trouble In clearing the market place.
Colony of Rip Van Wrinkles
A special correspondent, who is visiting
the famine stricken portions of Russia,
sends the following letter from Saratoff, de-
scriptive of the German colonists on the
Volga:
The German colonists on the Volga num-
Der about 800, 600. Imagine body of men
taken out of the eighteenth century, care
fully preserved and kept apart from the in
fuences of modern progress, latter day Gus
toms and ideas, and you have the German
colonists of the Volga.
The condition of the colonists is really
worse than that of the Russian peasants in
other districts, inasmuch as the former have
NO natural protectors or guardians. The
estate owners, to whom the Russian peasants
formerly belonged, still take sort of patri-
archial interest in them and help them in
their distress; but the German colonists
have no one to whom they can look except a |
few wealthy employers of labor.
The colonists have feeling that they are |
being left alone to die. No hand is stretched |
out TO save them. Even the Government |
aid. scanty enough in all consciousness, has
been meted out more grudginglv and in |
smaller quantities to them than to>others |
The Red Cross Society has passed them bv |
altogether. This is how it comes about that |
while the inhabitants of the Russian vii |
lagos in Saratoff are fed, the German colo
nists are starving.