The morning call., 1893-09-23
NOLABOR WANTED
Unemployed Need Not
Come Here.
" TRAMP" INVASION DENIED.
A Party of Colorado Miners Have
Come to the Southern Vine
yards-The Prospect.

In the dispatches from Los Angeles and
Fresno Yesterday it was stated that an
army of tramps was on the way to this
city. Yesterday il was ascertaiDed, how
ever, that the invading army did not con-
sist of ''tramps," but honest miners and
workingmen. They were not coming to
this city; ali had alighted before Tulare
was reached.
1t It's now asserted on reliable authority
that these miners and others took rosses-
sion of the freight trains. being unable to
buy ticket or in any other way get to the
destination where work awaited them. 1t
seems that many OF them had received
positive assurance of employment in Vine
yards during the grape-picking season.
Their natural ccupation-mining-wa
gone, and they determined to avail them
selves of the next best thing.
One reason, it is said, that induced these
men to come to the coast was the under
standing that under the Geary act the
Chinese would necessarily be deported and
that consequently there would be more
room in the vineyards for them. Another
cause Of their arrival was the closing down
OF many of the Colorado silver mines, In
consequence OF the non-actlon Oh congress
on the silver question.
However that may be, the men are here
in the State. and II rumors are to be
credited more are coming. According TO
the railroad authorities, the first contln-
gent offered no violence TO the tralnmen
and gave no occasion to the residents en-
route TO resent their arrival. They are
quiet. respectable men seeking an honest
means of earning livelihood.
Under these circumstances, San Fran
cisco will feel somewhat relieved. Con-
sternation had prevailed in police and
Oh. Axl rf
of ''tramps" las these men were erro-
neously reported to be- descending on the
city like swarm of lOcusts. Chief Crow
ley was preparing TO have them arrested
Immediately on arrival, and the unem-
ployed on the lot a I Seventh and Mission
streets had posted special guards at the
doors to prevent such unwelcome addl-
lions TO their number.
To give some idea how foolish it would
be for any unemployed TO come to San
Francisco for work at this season, the fol-
lowing extract from a circular issued yes
terday may be noted:
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. %, 1898.
We have now nearly 800 women ana children
and over 400 men depending on us for food,
aud many OF them for shelter. The hotels,
taurants, bakeri 5 etc, are responding nobly
10 our calls for food but the wet weather Will
soon be here. We need clothing, blankets,
shoes, anything that Will serve 10 protect the
deserving from the rains and the frosts Men,
women and even children are undergoing semi
starvation.
At the headquarters OF the various char
ity organizations throughout the city it
was stated that all the societies had their
hands full, and expected more home cases
as the winter came on. None of them
would be able TO handle an army of unem-
pl0yed from the East Certainly, charity
should begin at nome, they thought. aud
San Franelscans in trouble were entitled
to consideration before Fasteners could
be helped.
Ali these good people will De relieved to
hear that it is not body OF ''tramps"
which so alarmed the southern towns, and
they will be still more relieved to hear
that all of the work-seekers have stopped
Off in the country.
But it would be idle TO shirk the posi-
bility that the danger is only deferred and
that these men are only making stop
over" among the vineyards.
A gentleman who ought to know said
yesterday: II hear that this invasion is
only the first of large body of men Who
are coming TO California. The talk of the
fair, the general climate so advantageous
for wintering, the expected deportation
of the Chinese and consequent room in the
labor market may be counted among the
influences which are turning men west
ward.
''At present they are going to the vine
yards. So far, so good. But look a little
ahead
'In month or so the ingathering of the
grapes will be completed, the occupation of
these worthy men will De gone and what
will they do? Perhaps it will be replied
that bv that time Congress will have acted
upon the silver question, many of the sill
yer mines will be reopened and that these
men will return to work them. 1t is TO be
hoped that at least some Of them will re-
turn.
But there will be many who have a
little money and who have become welded
| to California. There ill also be many
who are not miners at all and who have
merely joined the gang en- route. hear
that another party of 1000 have left Den
yer. Do you suppose all those are miners?
1T is from this residuum, then, that
San Francisco is likely to suffer. These
men will inevitably drift here sooner or
later. and then will be formulated the
pro elem, What to do with them.
The buildings of the Midwinter Fair
are To be erected on contract, and the con-
tractors only engage skilled labor; they
have too much at stake, since for every
day over January l that the buildings are
DELAYED they Will have to forfeit $500
Later the fair management will have some
employment, but San Franciscans will be
given the preference therein
las a matter of fact, the prospect of
work in San Francisco this coming winter
is not very bright. and the unemployed
will best consult their own interest by
staying away"