The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-12

many directions, 1t is heart break
Ing social process. The notifications
anxietlcs, even agonIes. experienced by
the people above public aid. as they re-
sort TO the shifts best known to their
SSss %Ssn tbe, n s'srnS off stark g1Deri
many cases quite equal the acute suf-
ferings OF tho unemployed poor. In
deed. many OF them who meet with re-
verses become acquainted with hunger
Itself. This phase of unenployme nj
deserves recognition here inasmuch as
IT is 10 he doubted that the same class
Jeopardy from lack of occupation as In
this country. changes In industry not
being so great or sudden and wide
spread as here Moreover. the number
unemployment drop off from the ranks
Of the apparently prosperous and ore
obliged TO take their chances With the
hard WORKING, is. by no means incon-
siderable. The bread lines and the
lodging houses Of the Bowery type
have usually. by report, large pro-
portion Of educated Americans. In :
dlcative OF the number barely holding
on AT 4. grade n little higher up. living
in deprivation, This class OF sufferers
from unemployment, while 1t strongly
ls beyond the reach OF direct state In
reference practically, The people In Il
can never be enumerated. classified AS
worthy" or unworthy" placed under
lnspcctorship, or given piaeos through
labor bureaus But for all that they
form a noteworthy factor In the prob
lem of Unemployment It's causes. its
loss to production, and its detriment 10
society.
When VIC turn our attention TO ous
artisans and laborers, we find them
plormcnt not usual in Europe II Is q
settled policy with employers in some
Of our great industries not TO give q
fun years work TO their employees
I..l.
thracite miners average less than two
hundred days work annually. whereas
steady employment might be given a
REGULAR force in the Industry for a,
OF work at mills and factories In con
sequence Of consolidation or with IN
tention OF union breaking. has character
Ized the steel tho textile and other indus
tries. Our building trades IN the Nortl
lose two months more in the winter sea
son than do those OF England. Such fac
tors serve to render the subject more
perpleNing. here than in the Old World
have no such loss to industry as that
from the class" OF young mon on the
continent of Europe going each veal
Into the army, and no such dubious
gain as in the re-entry Of the class
returned to civil life, with the diff
culties of putting the right men Into
the vacancies; we have no such aues-
ton as Is before England In connection
with its numerous sea-faring men, NOT
several other countries with their H.
literate masses, In cases reaching near
ly 30 per cent of all the ADULT males
On the other hand. European countries
have not our negro question or ar
immigrant population, speaking diverse
tongues.
own unemployment problem by study
Ing what has been done in the coun-
tries further advanced In dealing witt
the question for themselves, we can
methods meet a degree of success here
corresponding with that attained bS
them.
The very first step in taking coeniz-
ance OF unemployment as the object OF
a national reform through such means as
labor exchanges, out fwork relief. OIL
similar administrative agencies, neces-
stating supervision Of the unem
ployed. Is to ascertain approximately
the number OF people who might thus
be reached. on the average, annually
i'm the course of the years. In the
United States this is far more diff
Europe. Area the sparse settlement oi
vast districts. our sudden fluctuations
In employment. besides the various
nationaltties OF the immigrants and the
wandering habits OF so many of our
native wage -earners all these facts
indicate so many obstacles TO anything
lake correct census. Any one may
make his guess Of the number out OF
work at a given time. The politicians
among the ''outs' always have more
unemployed in the country than the
politicians among the "ins." Socia
revolutionists consistently see sn enor-
nous number of the Idle and starving
The New York labor bureau publishes
at stated periods n, report bearing on the
subject for the state, based largely on
entire population. These reports carry
the observer somewhat nearer the truth
than might his own otherwise unsubstan-
tiated estimate. but the bureau officials
gard their figures as well founded status
tics representing fully sifted facts. Their
statements may run that to 10 per
cent OF the membership Of certain trade
which may indicate the dull seasons in
the trades reported rather than uncm~
ployment as a social phenomenon affect
ing laborers of all callings The truth is
has been proved that commonly accept
ed figures are inflated The Bulletin OF
the Bureau OF Labor 0ederaD has on
record the results of an inquiry made in
labor. statistics made two canvasses
OF the state to ascertain the num-
Der OF people out of employment.
II mad been rep95ted do that ooS 90 were
Massachusetts. and 5000. 900 in the
United States. The bureau found IS
sos out in the state in June. and not
more than $4,000 in November-skilled
and unskilled. male and female. On
this basis, the number out for the
whole country would have been 460, 900.
Perhaps those who speak for the un-
employed have grown cautious but
very recently the press quoted tne
worthy gentleman who Is devotnG his
life TO the cause OF the unernpoved
acting as president of an ORGANIZATION
lsboring in their behalf, as giving his
estimate that last summer the mum