Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-03-03
A PITIFUL STORY.
Thousands Of Austrian LaborerS
Out Of Employment.
Great Suffering Reported from Vien-
na-Men, Women and Children
Working for a Pittance.
STARVING IN VIENNA.

VIENNA. March 2.-It is estimated
that 5, 700 shoemakers, 8, 900 carpenters,
l, 500 metalworkers, 1000 stonework-
ers and $4,000 unskilled laborers are
out of work. A reporter who accom-
paired the relief committee on its
rounds witnessed scenes of alb
ject poverty and misery which
it would be hard to match in
the squalor districts of London. As
an alleged result of the Mckinley law
$4,000 pearlworkers were thrown
out of employment, and are now
classed as unsllilled workmen,
the Austrian laws preventing their en-
bracing a new trade without serving a
new apprenticeship, which is impossi-
BILE in the case of adults burdened with
families.
In Terrible Phlight.
The chamber of commerce and the
municipal authorities voted S13, 900 to
relieve the trade association formed to
supply raw material at cheaper rates,
but the benefits are conferred only
upon those able to subscribe S. so.
The result is that a majority of the
buttonworkers are left in a pitiable
plight Whole families are living and
working in a single room, earning a
few shillings each. In the Beehive
700 souls were found occupying 215
rooms. Hungry children swarmed at
the entrance. The air in the rooms
was fetid, and in many cases the
rooms were bare, the furniture having
haaY, no xxrr,aI ~ ,,~0..tIa Fn1J
Working for Almost Nothing.
A blacksmith who received SO cents
for making 1000 screws or nuts earned
81. go weekly and paid rs cents for rent
and yearly tax to the government OF
80. 90 Five years ago he earned three
times as much for the same work. In
another case sweater paid 10 cents
for the making of a dozen brushes.
Many similar stories are told of cases
of parents and children engaged in
ceaseless toll earning an aggregate
wage of ST. 20 to S16s weekly, and OF
widows with children in a worse plight
earning u cents daily. The fact that
women work as laborers in the build.
ing and other trades makes unslxilled
labor valueloss. The poor seldom taste
meat--even horse flesh, which il sold al
six or eight cents per pound-and fuel
is very dear
The authorities of this city have at
last been compelled to recognize the
urgency of the situation among the
poor, and they now permit socialists
committees to circulate appeals, hither-
to prohibited, for donations. Contri.
buttons are consequently now flowing
in more freely.
Funds for Yienna's Sufferers.
VIENNA, March 2-The list of sub
scrihtrs to the bnrgomaster's fund for
the relief of the unemployed is headed
By the emperor with a contribution OF
s., 500. The Springer brothers give S.,
900. There was another free distribu-
ton of bread and meat to the needy
poor Monday.
starvation for 10000 Hungarlans. Nsss
LONDON, March 2-Famine prevails
in northern Hungary and 20 600 inhab-
itants of the county of Arva are in a
state of distress equaling that prev
alent in Russia. The government will
not relieve the sufferers because they
are of the Slav race. German news
papers in Pesth Indignantly protest
against this inhunanity and demand
that the sufferers be relieved and pro-
vided with corn for the spring sowing