Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28
THEY CAN
HELP LOT OF. IDLE
Experts on Problem of Unen.
pIoyed Organize Permanent
Campaign.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S-The problem
of the unemployed and proposals for
its solution continued to be discussed
today by the delegates at the second
days session of the First National
Conference on Unemployment, under
the auspices of the American Asso-
citation for Labor Legislation and the
American section of the international
Association of Unemployment.
Suppression of immigration, so long
as there is an unemployed class IN
this country, was advocated by sew
eral delegates. Other plans for deal
ing with the problem included pro-
posals that the conference call on the
federal and State governments to
establish labor exchanges and that
labor be distributed at government
expense.
The demonstration made last night
by several hundred men out of en-
ployment in demanding that they be
allowed to sleep in the Second Avenue
Baptist Church was said today to
have no connection with the confer
ence. The mob formed after listening
to a speech by an agitator, and, be-
sides visiting the church, went to sew
eral East Side police stations, where
they sought shelter and food. The
police cleared the stations, after tell
ing the leader that 500 could be ac-
commodated at the municipal lodging
house.
The program at the conference to-
day included general meeting this
morning, followed by a luncheon at
the City Club, when a permanent
campaign against unemployment was.
announced. -t
Prof. Charles r. Henderson, secre-
tary of the Chicago Commission on
the Unemployed, one of the speakers
at the night session, said this coun-
try's problem is very different from
that of England or Germany. The
problem here is to make the people
realize that they have such problem.
I'VE are here in this great city," he
said, "for our first national confer
ence. Let us have a definite policy
to carry back to the States of the
West and South. Don't say nothing
can be done; that unemployment has
existed through all the years. We
solved the slavery problem and many
other problems, and by the red blood
in our veins we will solve the national
problem of unemployment. Antiquity
doesn't give respectability to misery,
If it is a wrong, there is a remedy.
and we should and will apply it,"
Prof. Henderson said that after it Is
determined how many there are of the
unemployed they should be handed
over to the federal government.
I'VE cannot turn them loose for
leeches to suck their blood. Let US
show that the Stars and Stripes stand
for liberty and freedom. Let us estab-
lish national, State and local agencies
that will meet the demands of both
employer and employee.
Unemployment insurance is a part
of our American policy. 1t may be
long time off, but 1t is coming. Let
us all pile 1t up, then when we are
out of a job it will be there. When
we are all paying into an unemploy-
iment insurance fund the captains of
industry will have to earn their title.
ut is not for men like me to ask
Why didn't you save? Many ought
to save, but it is not for us to ask.
the man who earns $1.75 day why he
doesn't save. He couldn't save, ex-
cept by taking it off his body"
Prof. Henderson's remarks were
loudly applauded.