United labor bulletin., 1913-10-25
Out-of-Works Better Treatment
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flotsam and jetsam found in every
city, which evil social influences, as
we'll as industrial and political sys-
tens have created) but to the honest
laborers as well, whose only crime is
that he is temporarily out of work, and
through his helplessness for lack OF
effectual resistance finds himself un-
luckily held in prison, as well as an
| injustice to the already over-burdened
| taxpayer.
They find it will not stand the test
as a part of well-governed city
that 1t is not Christian.
AS an argument, look at only four
of the divisions for arrests of the Den
yer police report for September alone
| as given in Municipal Facts:
In Transit (whatever that means
and covers in police vocabularly) %;
| 165, and this report, l believe, was
greatly augmented by the preceding
summer months.
Included in this report, beside men
of many trades, three hundred and
| fifty-eight were laborers.
From construction camps through
out our state and adjoining states, they
have been calling for workers all
summer. rhe Denver and Salt Lake
railroad representatives have been
securing the city begging men to go
to Steamboat to work. No office fee.
and free pass, and even a return pass
to Denver at an extended time was
promised
| Standing recently on Market street.
man showed me shipping ticket to
Tucker, Utah, for which he said he
paid two dollars. and was to leave that
night. Looking up, he said. in a
startled way-"Jack, here come q bull.
we better duck; they have arrested
twenty-five or thirty here today" and
he drew quickly from the street to the
retreat of an open door.
This statement made by this work
| er in transit, of the number of ar
rests on that day. can only be verified
by those in a position to know, and no
| doubt If this man had been arrested,
| by showing his good intentions and
| shipping ticket at the prison door he
| would have been released, but the in
| cident cannot help but show that a
great many times possibly there may
be unintentional Observation-Disclosures.
/ have been told that Denver has a
| tentative Municipal Shelter House,
| but for the past six months 1t has
| been closed to those who are regarded
as honest but unfortunately found
l hav hun nd al
these approximately on the average of
| one hundred a month. have been
forced to seek shelter and food in the
city prisons. while the expense of re-
tanning this institution for time of
greater need declares one department
of the city's government) is approxi-
mately 5000 month.
Referring again to the abandoned.
all other cities in our nation are
awaking to the fact that men and
women chained soul and body by de-
structive habits of vice, are sick men
and women and are creating munici-
pal institutions to cure. rather than
to destroy.
One OF our honored city commits
sioners recently made a statement
tnat Denver hau become a mecca Aoi
"hobo's." and inferred that the kind
treatment Denver offered TO such as
these should be discouraged. Webster
defines hobo as n travelling work
man.
Speaking on the authority of one
who knows. declare that in the
| past Denver has been considered as
one of the cities OF our nation whose
cruelties to the migratory worker are
proverbial. and the statement that 1t
is considerate to such as these. is
erroneous.
The great problem we are striving
to solve today. Is the building of our
state and city. and in the solving of
that problem let us not forget that the
human force of labor In every phase.
| the builder. and the conservation OF
that force. is the cornerstone OF the
| foundation of the edifice.
A CITIZEN. TAXPAYER AND WORK
INGMAN.