The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-21
DROBlEM OF UNEMPLOYED.

The problem of what to do with the
unemployed is being worked out with
more or less satisfactory results in
several of the European countries and
must sooner or later attract the atten-
ton of state authorities in this country.
With a constantly Increasing number
of laborers in the country. the number
of idlers is large even under normal
conditions, while in the event of a
business depression such as we are now
passing through. the situation is men
acins from every point of view.
European countries usually recognize
three general classes of the unem-
ployed-the employable, the unemploy-
able and the vagrant, the incOrrigible
OF more or less vicious. The principal
agency everywhere for dealing with the
employable is the employment bureau,
both private and public. In Germany
the number of public bureaus has
grown rapidly during the last twenty
years white in France the maintenance
of such bureaus is compulsory in all
towns of 10000 or over
In Great Britain a means of relief for
the trade union man out of work which
has been developed to great proper
tons is the trade union out-of-work
benefit. In Client the same system is
supplemented by sums provided by the
municipal provincial or the general
government. In Switzerland an at
haaD N n
system of insurance against unemploy-
ment, although success cannot be said
TO have crowned the effort so far as
reported.
In Germany, Switzerland and Ger
man Austria home shelters" are or
ganized into general system of homes
or hotels for working men travelling
| in search of work in all the larger
cities and towns. Connected with these
home shelters there has been developed
i'm southern Germany a system of
smaller relief stations under govern
ment administration or support The
stations are within walking distance of
each other and are connected by tele-
phone. A laborer in search of work can
go from shelter to shelter and at every
point learn in which direction lies his
best hope of success. If unable TO pay
for his shelter he is required TO work
in the morning and travel in the after
| noon, and the time he can stay at one
shelter is strictly limited. In Switzer-
land and large portions of Germany
where this system has been adopted
tramps have largely disappeared from
the community
| Perhaps the most notable efforts in
dealing with the employable are the
labor colonies of Germany and Switz-
erland. The German colonies are main
tanned by private philanthropy and are
agricultural i'm character Any work.
man unable to find work can find shell
ter so long as he conforms to the rules
of the colony. He is free to go at any
time. but while in the colony he must
90 the work assigned TO him.
In Belgium, Switzerland and Holland.
whose people are the most frugal and
industrious on the face of the earth,
penal colonies have been established,
to which are sent those arrested for
begging. persistent idfeness and other
minor offenses.
The question of what to do with the
unemployed and lazy vagrant is one
i'm which Salt Lake is vitality inter-
ested. With a constantly increasing
influx OF population, owing to the largo
amount of building i'm progress and the
development of the natural resources of
the state, and situated in the heart of