Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-28
Young Man Now
Don't Go West


San Francisco. March 2 a spl.)-
The following official circular sspeaks
for itself and should be needed by
the workers everywhere:
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
During the past few months, San
Francisco and California have been
advertised in the various sections of
the country as an ideal place for men
who desire employment at high
wages. This sort of faIsehood has
been continued by designing men and
institutions until California has been
flooded with idle men; who have been
lured to the land of sunshine and
flowers by the agents Of grinding
greed, who hoped by this means to
reap handsome profits.
These falsehoods have been be-
lieved by many persons because Of
the fact that the Panama-Pacific Elk
position is to be held in San Fran
cisco IN 1915. and another exposition
in San Diego at the same time. 9th
erWise, the Yiciousness of the mann
mon-loying gentry might not have
yielded such returns.
The TRUTHS, that at the present
time an army of idle men in Califor-
MIA. much larger than at any time
since the great panic of 189Ss1895,
seventeen years ago, and there is no
prospect Of relief from this condition
Of affairs. In San Francisco alone,
there are 10000 idle men among its
resident citizens. to say nothing OF
those who have been inVeigied into
coming to this coast by the greedy
railroads. real estate sharks and 9th
ers who profit by such a condition OF
affairs. The jails and charity insti-
tutions are nightly filled with home
less men, who have fallen victims to
the deceit Of the profit mongers, who
are without conscience or feeling, as
they reach out their filthy hands to
grasp the pennies of the poor.
There is not enough work in Cali
fornia at the present time to engage
10 per cent of the labor now here. JET
tbe Chamber Of Commerce of San
francisco is circulating hundreds o.
thousands Of postcard faIsehoods
throughout the world, in an effort e
induce other workers to come 70 q
land Of idleness, hunger and misery.
This warning is sent out In the
hone that those who see It may
spr + the truth far and wide, ana
thus balk the minions Of greed on
tb,s coast IN their efforts to profit
~ the misery Of those unfortunate
enough to be searching for employ
ment.
Cold is the only God these greedy
mortals know, and as long as there
Is 4 chance to grasp q dime, they
crave il, and would take it out q
~ nalsied hand Of advanced age
8 ~ from the helpless fingers Of puny
infancy without pang Of conscience
- he slightest regret. Such Is the
character Of the men responsible for
tba false pictures Of California con
80, - hang spread throughout
the world.
7,bera is NO demand for labor mere
nothing but idleness on every hand.
onr streets are lined with idle men
s search Of employment, many OF
them without means to sustain them
selves and compelled TO depend upon
fhe charity Of strangers.
STAY away from California until
s,cb time as you receive information
from trustworthy sources that tners
K work here for YOU
s Fraternally.
fs,pnedl PAUL SCHARRENBERe'
Secretary California State Federation
Of Labor. -, *
(signed1 JOHN / 49, -:-. s,
Secretary League for the rejection e
the Unemployed:
NomcE: The following resolutions
,.s<s unanimously adopted by the
D1svz ~ Supervisors Of the City ana