The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-01

organizations show that a large proper.
ton of cases OF destitution is due prl.
.nariiy to lack OF work. The Rowery mis-.
sion In two and one-haf Years found
work for only 900 out OF about "a. 00C
applicants; the National Employment eX.
change In 1910 for only $500 out Of 24.sOt
applicants. the Division OF InfoTma lion
United States bureau OF immigration only
2Sl2 out Of 1000 D.
There may have been a time wher
New York statistics for unemploy ment
were not accurately suggestive as a gauge
FOR the country as n whole. But the in.
vcstisator, as preliminary step. Nigh,
profitably inquire in November al tho
Atlanta convention as 10 whether the
York conditions in this respect are tvpi-
cal or no, for the Industrial centers In
general OF the United States today. What
Would would necessarily ice s,II be The reply Of the
trades laborers. the freight handlers the
railroad maintenance of way employees
the seamen. the laborers for ROADWAY and
similar contractors? What the reply Of
the indoor occupations-the needle work :
ers, the mill operatives the light metal
shop hands. the factory workers In n
is 10 be found In the long contested
strikes Of the last few years. The mere
mention or geographical names calls M
heartrendiDG accounts OF the sufferincs
OF wage earners who have had their bit
ter choice between uncompaining INSULT
cheney while at work and desperate
straits while ON striks-WestmorGland
ids Mich Every year New York and
Chicago and other large cities show the
possibilities OF labor disputes involving
men and women by the tens OF thousands
With the successive Investigations OF la
Dor conditions. by the unions, by labor
bureaus. by social workers, the industrial
and mining centers Of th. countrv are
seen To present the same general features
Of masses OF immigrant worltTen. en-
poyed and UNEMPLOYED. at times weaken :
ing trade unions through competition. at
times, whether organized or unoreanlZed.
breaking GU: IN strikes, and astonishinG
The public with their reclslessness. by
their stubborn resistance. or their pa
ticnt. doSEed suffering.
The rapidity with which the new I'M
migrant lis penetrating classes Of work
mon other than those ranking lowest In
skill, into which he usually enters on
arriving In America, is becoming noticea~
bic. The youth five wears In this coun-
try. learning with his English some of
the VANS or young America. makes for
better paving grade Of work than his
fathers. The little hoy or girl Of 10
years of age on arrival Is in four wears
legally n factory hand The control OF
the market for rough labor BY the new
immigration is thus followed hy a pres
sure upon higher forms of work that
Americans the older immigrants and
their sons have assumed must remain
their own Elevator and hotel BOYS:
street car conductors, musicians, skilled
building trades worlkmsn statesmen. semi
skilled DcOCnnrn IN p'lN~
sIoenomics Of these classes OF work pcc-
pie no longer invariably suggest Amsr'-
can or northern Europe birthpiaces. Ihe
possibilities OF the competition embodied
IN tho unpa raeled migration Of the Eu-
ro,1ean masses to America Us beginning
10 be keeuIy felt in the ranks OF the
lesser commercial men and even In the
q few years ago had not been made aware
Of an immigration question The self
contained established small gentry who
cotnposedly moved along In fancied oc-
cupa lions are awakening TO economic
troubles Of their own. They are finding
out what competition for opportunity 10
gain livelihood for small CAPITALISTS and
propertyess men OF liberal education
means and are learning that all social
problems are not 10 be settled by shrewd
ness or Sinking In dealing with qucs-
tions OF marriage and the family.
while the movement of the neW imni
grant and his quickly assimi'ated chill
dren upward in the hierarchy oi occppa-
tons is thus proceeding apace. his spread
In masses over the area OF the country
In the last few wears has bccn marvellous.
A recent study In labor circles OF this
phase OF the immigration problem has
brought before the public the picture OF