Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-02
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| relating to the DIVISION of labor and
the distribution of immigrants as well
as an appeal for free transportation.
The communication is as follows:
While our congested eastern cities
are overrun with thousands of sturdy
| laborers without employment and Of
| ten without bread. a need for these
same laborers is felt in other parts
| There is a Bureau of Information in
Washington which can furnish to al
most every one of the unemployed the
names of several firms where their
| work is needed. Were they to go to
such localities. it would be a benefit to
them and to their employers, but they
! lack. the means to pay the travelling
expenses. and generally are suspicious
of any offer Of employers to advance
these expenses on their wages.
If the Bureau of Information could
give to unemployed laborers transport
tation to where their labor is in de-
mand. thousands of them would be
saved from want. and they would, on
| the other hand. benefit the country
| through their labor.
| Immigrants arriving here could also
be directed where they have relatives
or where their labor is needed. but
they cannot afford to pay the cost of
transportation to those localities.
Free transportation will greatly
contribute to the solution of this prob
lem. The Argentine Republic furnish
es immigrants with one weeks hospi-
tality and with free railroad transport
tation to any part Of that country.
Other South American governments
offer similar inducement. What such
Republics with their scanty means, are
doing, our country. the wealthieSt in
the world. can certainly accomplish.
| The burden which such provision
would entail upon the federal treasury
Il would be more than compensated by
II the benefit which it would bring about.
4 1--WE request all organizations and
i individuals that are in favor of a mea-
sure for the proper distribution of i'm
| migrants, to send resolutions or letters
to that effect to their state and fed
eral representatives, and to kindly no.
tify the league when they do so.
I'm words more or less similar the
League has for the past two or three
years been agitating this subject
throughout the country, amongst
| DcTS anu we'll WISlIcIS lie dDoNc
is an exact copy of a circular that was
sent out to the press some six months
ago 1t was we'll received and freely
commented upon by the papers. from
one end of the country to the other.
Many Of the papers published the cir
cular as it came to them word for
word; while others commended them
selves with giving extracts of the most
vital points in our argument, as if
coming from themselves editorially.
thus placing the entire weight of the
paper at our back.
| Announcement was made Friday at
| the office of the Board of Railroad
| Commissioners of the receipt of a pc
| tton from the Somerset Railroad Co,
asking the approval by the commits
/ sioners of a proposed change of loca-
ton in its line of road from Oakland to
| kineo Station.
| The petition represents that the rail-
)road company owns and operates a
line of railway extending from the
town of oakland in the county of
Kennebec to Kineo Station in Rock
wood township in the county of Som
erset, all in the State of Maine: that
the petitioner deems it necessary and
eVpedient for the convenient opera
| ton of its said railway to make a
change in the location of said railway
| in the town of Madison. county of
Somerset, opposite the Abenaquis mill
of the Hollngsworth & Whitney Co.
| so that the main track shall devate
from its present location. The petit
ton further represents that the
changed location does not cross any
highway or town way. A hearing on
the petition will be assigned later
1t WAS announced at the executive