New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-04
FEEDING THE HUNGRY.
THE RELIEF COMMITTEE REPORTS ITS
WORK AMONG THE UNEMPLOYED.
A detailed STATEMENT REGARDING THE DFsTI'
TUTE FAMILIrs-MANY EyiCTIoNs-coN.
PLANTS ABOUT LANDLORDS.

TUTE FAMILIrs-MANY EyICTIoNs-coM.
PLANTS ABOUT LANDLORDS.
WILL authenticated cases OF desttution among
the unemI loyed continue to be reported with pain
fu regularity The best-organzed body for the
purpose Of dealing with these cases made It's re-
port for the week ending September late yes
terday afternoon. This organization IS the reliet
conference organized two weeks ago with sam
uel Gompers at it, head The conference at that
time appointed a subcommittee. known as the
Relief Committee This committee made It's
weekly report TO the conference yesterday. at
the international Labor Exchange No. 25' East
feminist. The Relief Committee has been work.
ing actively during the last week. Its members
decided In the beginning to do their work In the
most systematic manner possible. complete
record is made Of every Of restitution that
comes within the observation Of the committee.
In this way they collecting a mass Of statis-
tics which will surely prove valuable to any one
who may desire to study the conditions now pre-
vailing among the most destitute workingmen In
this city.
These statistics will probably be printed before
long In some form convenient for consultation.
Not the least important Of the deliberations Of the
conference yesterday was the appointment OF a
committee TO report next Sunday on the advisable
ity Of great peaceable demonstration by the UNI
employed.
Robert NJ. Campbell. of Typographical Union No.
delegates at the conference. The Relief Committee
made It's report which was as follows:
Fellow Workingmen
The last week. to the least, has been busy
one, and every mombcr Of the committee that at our
M ctin9s wa given sufficient opp runtes show his good
viii 10 help TO carry the comnitteos work VI dsosng
Of all the applications for relief satisfactory manner
The principal feature OF tho week tho rendering OF
immediate relief TO the people. who with their families,
suffering hunger starvation for Of the
ce.altia ~ 10 Tha lDlf
Of requires the iudcIons handling Of
funds The committee unable until Friday last D
distribute PROVISIONS
And so the subcommittee after Investigating each
case gave aid In money and not IN provisions TO the
deserving ones. UP 10 Saturday noon, when the sc'
counts all closed. 444 applications had been re-
by the committee, OF which number according TO
careful statistics 1917 applicants wore members OF trades
unions l75 nonunlon men There were seventy
two classified either union or non-union.
The recelpts amounted 1855 A. New subscription
i.ts. bearing tho stamp OF the Helei Committee are
being distributed among the different organfatiohs ah-
40 fur they proved TO b. Of great aid 70 the re-
lief fund The expenditures amounted 10 s2V'' "h'h
includes financial aid given 10 seventyour families.
Your committee received offers from several business
men TO aid the committee Among these Is an oner iom
DR.. Chcrurg, who promises 70 help sick families NO
matter how successful your committee may be In supply
na the moor with provisions it meets almost everywhere
people who cannot be eouailed in cruelty cold
boodedness and heartlesness They are commonly called
landlords" whose legally protected moral crimes counter
act oil the efforts relieve the wants OF the sufferers
The sad experience Of this committee may De hiutfaa
by the following figures
Twelve families out Of every fifty visited were served
with dspossess notices. the execution OF "bich was
temporarily stopped; twcntythree families were actually
,hrowp out OF their homes Despondont fathers, crying
children and women left on the STREETS 70 COMBAT
the elements and nearly every one the applicants iof
relief was satisfied to 1--we the scantest food or even
.tarve rother than ind himself and his children
xsrgsk tka iar In hls
marcy cannot be found In the dictionary OF the landlord
At the headquarters q tho committee, now at 10 900
East feminist, the distribution Of provisions will take
the place financial aid, which in most cases fas
prry to the grabbing hand Of the relentless landlords
Urging delegates the conference to secure financial
ad ~ well as provisions aud to have them sent u our
headquarters close the report for the week endins
Sen,snber g. Z. ". ADLER. Chairman.
The report OF the Relief Committee was received
most favoraby. In the talk that followed the
reading OF the report several delegates criticised
severely the recent remarks OF Charles ~ he'-
logg Of the Charity Organization Society. con-
enng relief funds for ,Sa the Mr. qne RSsS wss dts
posed to interfere with the work OF the hehef
committee -. -. Charity Oryanization
Society doubt" said "A delegate. that there IL more
suffering than usual on the East Slae' er 'h hn,
send one of their men to us we WIN SNOW MN I'm
cases Of restitution that would move even the
farnSh HeTondess replied that he did not believe
in denouncng any one. The Charity Organization
Society "A least did much Tor the ChuSe VI c.ai nv.
h. said This conference" he continued, wants
,o gvr food to the poor on the other hand the
Central Labor Federation wants TO give them POI,
itics and the Central Labor t'nion tomorrow VIII
shny, ther, a arade and brass bands -
George W Middleton. one Of the delegates SAID
that il would be much better TO give food TO the
suffering unemployed than to spend money tor
T inon said he has $4,000 IN its treasury Why
don't they subscribe literally?
louis Walter. the representative Of the Cigar
nakers Union. retorted by saying that no mem
her ~ his union had asked for charity. The Cigar
makers Union was faithfully caring for us own
MANY OF the delegates said that they believed that
a genuine demonstration BY the unempoyed, wouId
Ia +, valuable object lesson to the citizens or New
Work. 'rhe following delegates were appointed 70
consider the project Henry Weisman, He ehy
White Frederick Jensen. Joseph l}arondess Jonn
s,mar, Moses De Coster. Chris. Evans, beriaIu
Davis p Niemack The conference ADJOURNED TOT
n was said that the Thurber- Whyland company
hnd offered 10 furnish groceries to the Reief 'om-
mittee at cost