Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-30
THE ARMY HAS BECOME Crafty
INGLY SMALL.
WORK FOR ALL WHO WILL WORK
BUSINESS IMPROVING IN EVERY d.
RECTION.
Railroads.. Mines. Ranches, Farms,
Crcameries and stores Furnish
ing More Work for Men
Than for Years Before
kansas News.

Tcpeka. Kas.. July 29.-(Special0 Inter
views obtained during the past week from
a number of the most reliable men through
out the state, regardless OF their political
beliefs. show that there are fewer actual
residents Of Kansas unemployed at pres
enl than at any previous time since the
enactment of the Wilson bill. Everything
seems TO be on the upgrade, and the first
people affected have been the laborinS
classes.
In the first place, people with money are
now letting ii out into the channels OF
trade aad this has enabled another class
of energetic men VINO have been short on
cash TO improve their plants and extend
Their business. In doing this the mechan-
ics have found considerable employment
and many laborers have been put TO work.
While the state is not ready for an I'M
portation of skilled laborers, il can take
care Of those IL has here and furnish them
with steady work. Kansas has not many
skilled laborers now. compared to few
years ago During the boom. the state was
filled with them. But when 1t collapsed
they sought other fields. The surplus was
fairly well exhausted and as a result those
who remained in the state are now finding
work at fair wages.
This is also true of railroad men. The
and all of them ere working more men
longer hours than for the past three years
Beside this additional trains have been
placed in operation and additional trains
means additional work for engineers, FIRE
men brakemen and others. This has en-
gbled the surplus railroad men to find en-
ploymCnt.
Kansas coal mines are also turning out
more coal this summer than they have for
rraEy years before. More miners are at
work and more hours are being put in.
This has taken up the surplus mine labor.
Cattlemon have again taken possession of
Western Kansas. More cattle by % per
cent are roaming the prairies of that sec
tion to-day than in the balmy days of cat
tie raising years ago. 1t takes men, and
lots OF them. to care for the thousands of
new herds which have come in. and this
has given work TO that class Of labor, here
tofore unemployed.
Creameries are sprinPing up like mush-
rooms all over the state. 1t requires help
TO run a creamery. As a consequence,
vast number of unemployed have found
employment in this branch of industry.
The immense wheat crop has caused the
FARMERS TO give additional work to labor
Irs. Where a farmer employed two men
before he IS now employing three. Where
he did the work before himself. he is now
giving work to a hired hand This fur
nishes employment for small army of
men.
Then the business Of the merchants has
picked up, and an additional clerk has
been added here and there, which relieves
that class of labor. From every section of
the state comes the report of a revival of
business of all kinds.
There are hundreds Of tramps who claim
ployed roaming over the state. They real
ly belong to the Ancient Order of Never
Works They shy at work. This was
fully demonstrated during the wheat har-
vest. when farmers begged them to go to
work for them at $50 and 81 day and
board and they refused. The industrious
laborers are getting about all the work
theY can attend TO.