Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-01
UNEMPLOYED MAKE
 UNITED PROTEST
Walking to National Capital From All Points for Their
 Convention

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 3f-The Balance of the migratory population or the United States has become seri- ously disturbed during the last few weeks and slowly but persistentlv it's center has moved in the direction to- ward the national capital. Thanks to the favorable weather conditions wall, ing was good on the roads leading to Washington and this fact, combined with the good humor and charitable disposition of the farmers, looking forward to bumper crops, enabled the thousands of self-constituted delegates to the big convention of the Brother hood of the Unemployed" which will open its session here tomorrow, to travel in comparative comfort. Many of the delegates" who were too tired to walk or wished to study railroad conditions travelled by rail, as the un- Invited guests of the various railroad companies and every freight train ar irving in the District of Columbia brought it's contingent of delegates.
 Not since General" Coxey led his army of unemployed to the national capital years ago has there been so big a gathering of this particular brand of men in Washington as is promised for the first four days of September. during which time the convention will be in session. The delegates who have already arrived or who are still on the way to this city In answer to the call issued by James Eads How of St. Louis. known throughout the country as the mil lionaire hobO," are by no means all tramps. There are a great many among them who really want to work, but are at present unemployed. James Eads How, who is called the chairman of the national committee of the un- employed. is a humanitarian with strong sympathies for the under dog" Although his ideas and schemes for the betterment of the existence of fortunes neglected step-children are. in many respects. visionary and Utopian, they have their practical and unquestionably serious aspects
 Chairman How takes himself and the movement at the head of which he stands, it's methods and it's aims with perfect seriousness. The national gathering, which will be formally opened tomorrow. is intended by him not only as a demonstration against existing labor conditions and econom- ic faults of the industrial systems of the United States, but as a means for remedying these faulty conditions. Vice President Sherman and a num- Der of United States senators and members O ftbe house of representa- tives of congress have been invited to attend the sessions of the convention and to deliver addresses bearing upon the subjects to be considered by the gathering
 According to the plans of the or ganizer of the movement an effort will be made to strengthen the organ iZation of the unemployed so as to give greater weight to their demands It is expected that the convention will pass a series of resolutions demand ing that congress pass, without delay a number Of laws. Among the measures to be demanded will be jaws for the establishment of national employment bureaus; free transportation to the job: the shortening of the working hours; the establishment of a mini mum wage, in order that the lives of millions of the unemployed may be sustained until the establishment Of the industrial republic. in which all workers will receive the full product of their toil"
 Although the majority of the dele gates attending the gathering are men there are also a few women among the ranks of the unemployed. Cora D. Harvey of Chicago, known throughout the west as a slums and settlement worker, is the secretary of the nation al committee of the unemployed and Josephine Welston of Milwaukee is a prominent member Of the same com mittee. Both are expected to deliver addresses before the convention.
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