Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-05
ASKS WORKS BOARD
TO AID UNEMPLOYED
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year might be started Immediately to
afford relief to those who are now
suffering. 1t is pointed out that
conditions will adjust themselves to
better circumstances later in the
year.
Many Have Found work.
The city departments will have to
place the men at work in possible
vacancies through the civil service
bureau. This bureau is not in daily
touch with all the men listed on its
register. Although there are more
than a hundred applications, in many
of these applicants may have found
other employment since filing their
names.
The mayors communication is as
follows:
There are a great many of the
wage earners of Newark who are at
present out of employment, a fact of
which convincing proof could be al
forded from the records of our own
municipal employment bureau Con
ditions at this period of the year are
such in the most prosperous times
as to cause a slackening of activity
insmany lines of industry, and at the
present time great many industries
find it necessary to adjust themselves
to situation which had not occurred
for at least a number of years. We
may hope that the condition is only
temporary and that matters will soon
right themselves, but in the mean
time the problem of the unemployed
becomes acute, and there is danger
that there will be great suffering
among certain classes of our popula-
ton.
THE emergency calls dor the best
thought and effort on the part of the
municipal authorities to afford what
relief may be possible, and to this
end l address myself to your honor
able body. l know how restricted
your activities are by reason of the
laws, often not of our own seeking
and of other circumstances upon
which 1t is not necessary to dwell.
1t has, however, occurred to me that
it might be possible for your honor
able body to expedite some of the
public work now in prospect and thus
assist measurably in giving employ
ment. directly or indirectly. to per-
sons who desire work and not aims.
1t is, of course, unnecessary to re-
mind you that every little aid of this
kind will help in the general situation,
and that the quicker it is given the
more effective it will be.
"I feel that your honorable body
will give this subject earnest consid-
Grafton"
Edward Hedler, who led a detach-
ment of unemployed men to the City
Hall on Tuesday to ask Mayor Hauss-
ling to find work for them, appeared
before the Board of Works this after
noon to renew his plea.
Hedler. who lives in Paramount ave-
nue., gave a recital of hardships which
he said are being suffered by the
families of unemployed men in this
city. He was informed that Commits
sioner Biertuempfel chairman of the
committee on bay front development
and meadow reclamation. had been
empowered to employ 100 men to
work on the grading of Peddie street.
The work will be begun next Monday.
Commissioner Kraener suggested
that the board give to Mr.. Bierteupfel
permission to increase the number of
men who will be put to work to 200.
Mr.. Bierteumpfel said it would be i'm
possible to employ so many men at
the present stage of the work. 1t was
finally agreed to leave the number of
men who will be employed to the dis
cretino of Mr.. Bierteumpfel and City
Engineer Sherrerd.
The board passed a resolution or
dering to Pennsylvania, Lehigh VAL
lev and New Jersey Central railroads
to send representatives. to the next
meeting of the board to show by what
right they had laid tracks at Avenue
r. City Counsel Nugent told the
commissioners in his opinion the
tracks had been laid there Illegally,
and he recommended that the city en-
gineer establish a grade at Avenue r
and that the thoroughfare be graded.
John B. eraser, representing the
West Side Improvement Association,
appeared before the board to complain
of the poor street lighting on South
Fifteenth sweet, between Eighteenth
and Nineteenth avenues, and on
Ekinkle street between Kent and
South Tenth street.
Mr.. eraser also said owners of
property in Thirteenth street, be-
tween Sixteenth and Eighteenth ave-
nues, were dissatisfied with the street
pavement there.
What kind of pavement would you
like there?" asked President Kraemer
Brick said Mr.. Brasser, and the
commissioners smiled.
Mr.. Brasser also asked that Wood
land avenue be opened. and COM
planned of the poor pavement in parts
of Sixteenth avenue.
The places of which he complained
were ordered put on the inspection
list