The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-27
AT A STANDSTILL.
How the Strike Affected
Labor Bureaus.
Women Who Lost Their Summer
EarnlngS-Things Are Now
Looking Up.

81 never knew time when there were so
many applications for work and so few situa-
tioDs," said Captain McFee of the Salvation
Army yesterday, when asked how the strike
had affected he army'S labor bureau.
"FOr the last few days since the tie-up ceased
we have had few less applications, from
women especially. A lot OF them depend on
canneries, pickle factories and fruit picking TO
give them a chance to make enough during the
summer months 10 carry them through the
winter. l am afraid that fruit picking will be
very poor work this year. The women who
looked forward to doing IL are feeling the result
Of the strike already With regard TO the men.
however | really do not think that all the de-
preston is owing TO the recent tie-up. 1t sim
ply seems as if there was little or no work for
them, quite independent OF the strike.
G. r. Hansen declared that his employment
Office had been at an utter standstll during the
strike. Everybody has suffered terribly" he
said. For one thing. there Is a large class of
people. both men and women, who are in the
habit of finding employment AT summer resorts.
The strike happened 10 come Just at their good
Time of year, and caused all The summer re-
sorts 10 be just closed up. The consequence is
that they have all been out OF employment.
"In fact every kind of business was so pa
TalyZed by the te-up that It was no use trying
TO flud work for any one. We are hopeful now,
however. for things are beginning 10 move
again all around, and men are able to find work
again; indeed in a few days we expect things
to BE- IN their normal condition.
Miss Kate Plunkett was found, surrounded
by an anxious crowd of girls and women, all
waiting for a probable employer, who did not
come. 1--WE are doing nOthing-that IL how the
strike BIAS affected u.s." said Miss Plunkett
Men are beginning 10 travel for business. but
they WON'T let their wives and children go till
things are more settled. That means that the
girls VINO go 10 the country resorts have been
thrown out Of whole seasons work. The girls
who pick fruit during the vacation have lost all
their employment SO far we have not received
on fruit-pickng order this year at all.
You have no idea till you talk with people
who employ female help how the strike could
affect a business like ours" continued Miss
Plunkett, glancing at the long rows of unem-
ployed girls that lined her benches. $50 many
people that employ help are letting their girls
our or cutting down their wages because they
themselves have suffered so much from the tie
up that they cannot afford the luxury of help.
Business was just warming up when the strike
came, and no doubt things Will look up little
in few days, DuI have never known things TO
be at such standstill during the years 1 have
been in business in San Francisco az they have
been for the last few weeks"
1t was also stated at other employment Offices
that nothing had been done at all during the
Iie-up, though IL was expected that by the end
Of the week work would be more plentiful
again. AT Lusk's canning factory, however,
the strike was said TO have given more employ
meDt TO the men and women who work there,
as The tie-up had prevented green fruit from be-
ing shipped East