The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-07
JOBS ARE OPEN
TO THOUSANDS
DEMAND FOR WORKMEN
GREATLY EXCEEDS
SUPPLY.
Good Wages Are Offered to All
Glasses of Laborers in In
diana.

The Indianapolis Star says
thousands OF good paying jobs
are going begging in indianapolis
and vicinity, all because of the
false pride OF Americans. This
is vouched for by the various ad-
vertisements in newspapers and
the different employment agen-
cies, as we'll as the men who are
eager to do the employing. All is
taken as the best evidence that
prosperity has swept down upon
the Hoosier state.
IF had 200 men lined up in
front of my office | could give
chem all better jobs than they
could have gotten four years ago,
within two hours, and still have
another thousand positions va
CAN'T" said ]. w. Beard, an en-
ployment agent yesterday. Beard
declared that he has petitions
from railroad and contract en-
ployers begging him to get them
men. He says that their work is
crippled because men can not be
obtained, and cites as examples
of the demand that the Indian
apolis, Newcastle & Toledo Eas-
tern Traction company wants 80
men and can get only forty-hve,
than the Illinois Central Railroad
wants $50 men, the Big Four
needs all it can employ, the Van
dalia and Pennsylvania lines are
crying for men and could employ
about 800 Beard said that jobs
paving $2.i5 a day are now open
and that the same positions four
years ago were in demand at 81
a day.
Offers His Kingdom"
The. Indianapolis Motor Speed
way Company is searching for
200 men at once to help in the
work of paving the five-mile race
course with brick. These men are
needed mainly to prepare the
track for the bricklayers.
My kingdom for men with
shovels and picks said one of
the officers in the Central Union
Telephone Company, after he had
declared that he has Immediate
need of seventy-five men to do
work aft Shelby and Sanders
streets. This is underground
work, and the company has its
hands tied by lack OF workmen.
The Nor;tyke & Marmon Auto
mobile and Machinery Company
is going through a similar ordeal
with the American Car and
Foundry Company and many
others that have orders waiting
and not enough men to fill them.
The WestIake Construction Com
pany and the Indianapolis Water
Company are both after men.
The Speedway will pay $1.S5 a
day. The Water Company offers
45 cents an hour for teams and
II 1-2 cents an hour for laborers.
The employment agency in the
state statistician's office has re-
quests for $50 men. The Wander
VOOrt EmDloyment Agency is
having a similar struggle to fill
positions. Not only day laborer
jobs, but all kinds of positions
are open" said one officer of this
agency. 1t | had the men | could
give positions as clerks, statesmen.
tailors, carpenters. plumbers,
steam filters. mill and factory
hands. dairy workers and any
thing down to bell boys.
Good Times Here Again.
The cause for these conditions
is traced, by men in touch with
the situation, to prosperitys re-
turn and the fact that hundreds
of foreigners took fright and fled
from the country when the hard
times cry went up not long ago.
Americans think they are too
good to WELD pick said one
disgusted employer yesterday.
81 don't know of a contractor
who would not give Americans
preference. but we can't get them
to work. The foreigners are all
right, but we can't even get them
now. Farmers make good hands
between crops. but they lay off
whenever they please and we
can't depend on them either.
There is a certain class who will
always be idle This class, and
some others, kick because we en-
ploy foreigners, but what else can
we do? Americans have false
pride and think they are too good