Arizona republican., 1914-12-02
Arizona Republicans Editorial Page
Unemployment, Involuntary and Other

Unemployment, involuntary and Other
 Miss Ida M. Tarbeu $ one of the most brilliant and we'll informed in America has been great force for good for more than quarter of century Her exposures of gigantic abuses have led to their correction modification But Miss Tarbell has always been infable. She has ire quently flown off at a tangent to reappear entirely orbit. In the current number of the American Magazine Miss Tarbell has article. The Golden Rule Business" dealing with sub ject of unemployment. She can why the government with it's great power for the or dery organization and mobilization of army, may organize the unemployed into an army of cm- ployed. We will admit that the government might a function that it does exercise and find employment for more than have em- ployment, but it could not enroll all the unemployed than it could enroll all the citizens the country into an army for warlike purposes Many men do not want to be soldiers. It is the assump- ton of Miss Tarbel that every who is employed would work if he could find work to do She introduces instances of the development of her theory small scale, and believes that all these experiments which have proved successful might be corrected and combined into great endeavor.
 But of her instances has been unfortunately chosen, according to the following Associated Press dispatch which appeared in The Republican yester- day morning:
 SEATTLE. Nov 3o-Henry Pauly manager of the Hotel Liberty, the citys refuge for unemployed, resigned because he had not found among the S33 men at the institution enough help to operate the hotel The men refused carry in wood potatoes Last year Pauly ager of Hotel de Gink not directly unGer city control excluding all men unwilling to work. The hotel receives all comers
 The Pauly experiment is which Miss Tar bell devotes great deal of space and attention.
 
 of force and character, earnestly desrous of better ing the condition of himself and all others of his class Last winter he organized the unempIo, ed of Seattle into The Itnerants' Labor Union" or the "Hoboes Union of America" He received the encouragement of the Central Labor Council opened lodging which dersively called the Hotel de Gink' which should be a home for the unem- ployed where they would be tided over until work could be found for them and he advertised for work
 He send squads of men ont 10 clean ID vacant lots For others he got work at the commission houses. where they sorted potatoes and took pay ment seconds which the men carried back to their lodgings He sent out also squads men to clean up the butcher shops and markets whenever he found opportunity and took the second cuts of in payment.
 In the way he got the bakeries to supply him with stale bread Where an old building was being torn down, he got opportunity cart the lumber that was not usable: in this way he supplied the house Wlth fuel during the winter. As it possible he began get contracts for clearing stump land People said that the un- employed did not want work. Pauly a gang of men out to clear some land who worked more than month in the rainy absolutely without shelter Pauly would not admit the place any man who was unwilling work, and yet in Seat tie he cared for than thousand men dur ing the winter. There hold ups around Seattle and it supposed that Paulys impli- cated, whereupon Pauy showed that his men be in the house 10:30. and his books always he called in the police without warning and had them "frisk' every lodger in the building Not much penknife found that did be- long there Pauy had visions of getting his permanently onto the land. He hopes to get contract for clearing land, where plots of land be taken in payment That's the thing that will settle this employment question:" Pauly and settle it for all time
 And yet according to the Associated Press dis patch, the Pauly plan has failed The unenploy- 'ment problem has not been solved for the who does not work who in a time unem- ployment insists upon choosing the kind of work he will do. The first thing do is to solve the problem of involuntary unemployment. and God knows.i is large and perplexing A mistake is made in assuming all unemployment to be involuntary, Miss Tarbel appears to
 Her criticism Of the injustice and cruelty of many employers, especially large employers, is well placed. Their tendency to regard and treat labor ing parts a machine to be thoughtlessly discarded further complicates the problem of un- employment.