Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16
URGE FEDERAL AID
FOR UNEMPLOYED
Industrial Commission of Govt
to Observation-Disclosures
ment Insurance Suggested.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-The Fed
eral Industrial Commission has an
nounced that 1t would undertake an
investigation Immediately into re-
ports that hundreds of thousands of
men and women were out of work in
the country. In New York city
alone, according to what the COM
mission has heard, there are $4,000
persons unemployed. The object of
the inv estigation will be to determine
whether the Federal Government
should take action to relieve this
condition, and what measures should
be instituted to that end.
The commissions announcement
was in the form of a statement by
Walsh puts forth the interesting sug-
gestion that 1t may be necessary, In
order to remedy existing conditions,
to provide for insurance against nom
employment. How this can be ac-
complished he does not indicate.
Hundreds of thousands of men,
Industrious and anxious to work"
says Mr.. Walsh, ARE either out of
employment or without assurance
that their Jobs will continue another
week or another day.
DAILY VISIT facgOftee.
Groups numbering 100 to 1000
stand on the docks outside our great
Industrial plants each morning at 6
o'clock, hoping the foreman will pull
them out of line and put them to
work. They are thankful II they get
only few hours employment.
Poorly nourished and thinly clad,
these men gather each morning for
the foreman's inspection, submit to
his rapid scrutiny, and then many
drift away to the cheap saloons or
cheap lodging houses to walt f5r an
other chance
None can see this spectacle With
out realizing that here is sonething
society cannot afford to tolerate. An
employer never thinks of laying OF
his bookkeeper NJ clerk after employ
ing him three or four hours in day
or three or four Gays in a week. The
problem of continuous employment
FOR laborers Is more difficult, but it
Is problem that must be solsed IL
We are to check the increase in our
great army Of hopeless, homeless
men.
IF nothing else will avail 1t may
be necessary to urge insurance
against unemployment"
Inspectors to Investigate.
IL WAS Sdlu Il1dt uuTlQB IIl6 ltAL
six weeks the activities of four of the
commissions investigators will os re-
stricted to rapid survey of uner1-
ployment in industrial centres from
Boston to Kansas City, and a critical
examination and analysis of public
and private employment agencies.
The commission also announced
that estimates of charitable organl-
cations in New York City saying
$4,000 persons were out of work there
would be examined critically.
THE commission realizes" It was
explained, that present conditions
In the labor market are practically
the same in every year at this season
and that the problem Is a permanent
one"
The first direct step contemplat I'd
by the commission, after 1t has
gathered its material, is to present to
Congress for enactment a bill "estab-
fishing Federal bureau to serve as
q clearing house for public and pri-
vate agencies and to direct the move
ments of migratory workers. 60 OPP
GRAFTON to end casual employment
will be urged upon employers"
In statement accompanying the
announcement of Chairman Walsh,
the commission said:
Federal control of all employment
agencies doing AR interstate business
is urged upon the commission by e.
W Carpenter. manager of the Ma
tional Employment Exchange IN New
York City. This bureau was organ
lied by some of the largest employ
ers of labor in the metropolis to serve
as model, and the claim is made
that the evils from which migratory
workers suffer at the hands Of other
agencies have been eliminated in its
operation. Otto Il. Barnard is presi-
dent of the exchange, and John r.
Macarthur, contractor for the Asho-
kan Dam, is president"