White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-03-26
BOYS SHOULD Be
TAUGHT A TRADE
THE MAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO
DO THINGS Is NEVER LONG
WITHOUT WORK AT LIVING
WAGE.

Every boy should be taught a
trade is the belief of Henry NJ. Hyde.
and in an able article In the Chicago
Tribune of recent date he gives good
reasons for the faith within him. 1t
is worth perusal by everybody in
interested in boys and for that reason
is reproduced in full:
Every morning Of the work day
world a crowd of at least 5000 peo-
pie gathers about the gates of the
Chicago stock yards.
For an hour they wait in the rain
or the snow or the hot sun, pleading,
struggling together Tor work-for a
chance to earn fifteen cents an hour
at hard manual labor.
In that pathetic army, which is
mustered every morning, there are
old men and young women, children
and grandmothers, %cripples and tall
young peasants, with the strength of
a bull in their broad, awkward
frames.
When times begin 10 grow a bit
hard the regular morning crowd
grows larger. At the first distant
whisper of panic there are five in
stead of three thousand anxious.
hungry people waiting outside the
gates when the whistle blows. There
is no better index han this to bust
ness conditions.
Every morning the great majority
Of these patient people are sent away
without winning the vast favor of
an opportunity TO work. At best
they are given only casual and tenn
orary jobs-they are put in to fiji
gaps in the regular working force
left by illness or accident. All they
can hope Tor is a few hours at fifteen
cents Out of each week.
They are a part Of the great reg
ular army of the unemployed. They
are unskilled laborers, with nothing
TO sell but the work of their IN
taught hands.
II is the continual presence Of
this mass of surplus labor that keeps
wages down at the stock yards.
These unframed workmen-beeause
they are untrained-must not only
themselves struggle on with a
wretched pittanee. but their need
and their %helplesness have a depress-
ing effect on the wages of every man
employed in the whole industry.
To look at this early morning
crowd of casual laborers is 20 realize
with added strength the primary
duty of every parent TO give his
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trade. It Is for lack of a trade that
these poor people are forced To wait
every morning-and usually in vain
for a fifteen cent job.
The carpenter. the bricklayer, the
plumber-the %journeyman in any
handicraft-can, when work Is slack
in his W neighborhood. throw
his tool kit over his shoulder and
90 elsewhere. with the fair certain
ty that there will presently be a
good demand for his skill. The man
who really knows how to make
things need never go long without
work-and work at a living wage
The casual, unframed day laborer
on the other hand. has no such Ger
tainty. Anybody can take his place,
What he has to sell is always a drug
on the market.
In almost the same evil cas- is
that other great army of unskilled
laborers who make up the mass of
clerks and office men. Most of them
are victims of the white shirt
habit Only half educated and
utterly unframed IL is their foolish
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mer school, to avoid. at any cost, the
oyeralls and jumper of the mechanic.
Beginning with a microscopic place
in some Office, they rise within a
few years TO ten or twelve or fifteen
dollars a week. and there the great
majority of them stick. changing
employers with more and more fire.
quency as they grow older. until,