Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-03-14
The l. w W. Demonstration

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The problem of the unemployed has developed
Ito a very serious matter for several State govern
merts throughout the Union. At no time, however,
has ii been more prominently in the limelight lnan
during the past week or ten days in New York City,
where members of the |. W.. w. stormed the
churches, and demanding work and food and held
meetings which were SO riotous that several of the
leaders of the movement, including Frank Tannen-
baum, the youthful head of the employed host, were
arrested and put in Jail.
As a rule the l.. W w. men have received but
scant sympathy from the newspapers of the coun-
try. The New York Morning Telegraph says:
THE police did q good job when they arrested
Iannenbaum and his crowd of noisy yagabonds, who
we're invading churches and demanding as their
right food and lodging and even money. g s. s.
NO one need starve in New York City for want of
shelter: ' There is sympathy-deep and practical
for the unfortunate here; they can have food and
lodging and employment, but for those who would
attempt to take What is not theirs,-and for those
WHO pretend to think that. money and goods-that- be-
long to one man are theirs, %too-there is no sympathy
and the only helping hand that will be outstratched
TO- them Is that Of a policeman, assisting them into
a patrol wagon
"A Gang of Lazy Buns" is what the Montgomery
Advertiser calls Tannenbaum and his Industrial
Workers Of the World associates, and continues:
I'm reality they consist of a bunch of sorry white
men, too lazy to work. In short they arc simply a
gang of lazy buns. Incidentally they are. agitators.
They object to the kind Of word offered them on
the ground that the compensation offered is not ade.
quateNt for gentlemen Of their standing aud on The
further ground that they, do not care to work more
than eight hours a,day. They walk in great crowds
70 the; churches OF New York where free lunches and
free lodgings are furnished. After eating their fill
from the hands of gracious charity they back off and
begin verbally to assal the classes and the favored
few. The agitators are conducting them.
selves SO as TO become martyrs in the sight Of a
few Republican papers, no doubt. It may be said
soon that the Underwood low tariff is the cause OF
these honest men of toll being without means OF
support" n..
The Springfield Union has no cause for lament
Whatever over the fate of the jailed and jobless, COM
menting as follows:
Frank Tannenbaum's l.. w. W. battalion of uncn1-
ployed, numbering something like 200, after making
use OF the churches for several nights for purposes
OF food and shelter, has been under the necessity of
gaining repose in jail instead. The transfer appears
to have been appropriate in every respect. There is
good reason to believe that the band contained few
persons genuinely DESTROYS. of obtaining work. In
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cents an hour for an eight-hour day. One Of their
number was found to possess $3.50 in bills. 1t is
quite evident that in resorting to the churches they
possessed nothing Of the spirit that should animate
men seeking help from that source. Their invasion
was devoid of any manifestation Of courtesy or re-
gard for solemnity of the deyotions which they in
%terrupted. y y What the disturbers clearly desired
IN the first place was to be dealt an affront by tho
religious institutions they visited. They wanted to
order that they might mock at the churches and
gain sympathy for their lawless propaganda. In.
stead the churches enleavored to meet them In a
spirit Of charity, but it was quite evident that toler-
ance and forbearance in respect to q body Of men
employing such tactics must soon cease to be a vlr-
tue. II Industrious and law abiding persons
Of all natiOnalities are fast learning that the /. W. W:
affords them no real benefits and advantages"
The Knoxville Sentinel believes that the problem
Of unemployment needs careful study, and adds:
Perhaps what is most needed is accurate in;o;-
nation about the labor market and that the federal
government could serve the workers by collecting
and distributing carefully compiled and sifted facts.
+ The question Of unemployment will hardly
be dOwned until something is done in a systematic
way to solve 1t. Our country has Jagged behins
most of the countries of Europe in dealing with 1t.
Probably useful hints could be had from the study
Of their procedure"
When it comes to the question OF the attack OIL the
pernicious and malevolent house fly, there will be no
suggestion Of a policy OF watchful waiting.