The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-05-22
OUT OF
EMPLOYMENT.
IN CITY
Associated Charities Finds Its Re-
sources Taxed Almost Beyond
Limit in Caring for Needy Per-
sons Who Are Out Of Work
secretary's Report Full of In
terest. 10 MD nrid,.r.,
prom Thurdnr Adyertiser.l

~ E..' ..- T." .. noa
(From Thursday Advertiser.) Ati
The unemployment situation has
reached an acute stage in Honolulu.
The Associated Charities which repre-. RIO
sents nineteen benevolent, aid and re.
lief organizations has had its resources
taxed to the nttermost in attempting ,n,l
to systematic the burden of relief SEE
which has been shifted upon II. At dy,
the meeting of the executive commit III
tee last Monday it was stated that this
advisory organization had been over. IL
whelmed by insistent calls for i'm.
mediate relief and that aaother thirty M,
days would exhS.'-t all funds at the
disposal Of its treas..er "
The report Of Miss Emily Farley,
second division manager in charge of i0fI
the Labor Bureau gives concrete infor- at
nation as TO what the Associated Char ,.,,
tiles was called on to do during April
Some Of her findings follow ivl
Many Cases Handled. t'eg
'The Associated Charities have had
during the month Of April two Amer I'D
leans, two Filipinos, three Hawaians, 4
one Korean, four Porto Ricans, six
Portuguese, thirteen Russians, one
Scotch, nine Spanish as new employ.
ment relief cases, making a total Of
forty-one and involving lly individuals.
There have been seventy-six new APP
plieations for work by men and eighty
nine old applications renewed making
total of l65. Eighteen new appica. n.t
lions were made by women. The Iarg. ~
est number of men asking fo= work on
one day was forty-six on April 26, svS
showing that the labor situation IN
Honolulu has not yet become any easier y
for the unemployed .,.t 4, VIZ. -
4" There were forty.fve calls for en-,
ployes, giving an opportunity 70 lei Wv
men and women to work temporarily 80
The, Associated Oil Company asked for 70.
ten men on two occasions, preterfjgg
Russians. The Bishop Estate allowed
twelve men to work for three Sftlexs lOtH,.a
clearing land at the Kamehameha
Schools IN order 20 help reIlgNel AhsO1
day. g. 5e s;is IsvstsdW
s Many Sent to Hauula., swt5 !,
~ On April, ~ forty-one men, inc Iud- ~.
| ing eight families were sent to Halr
ua. To date not single man re- W
| mains except the fourteen FiliBinos ltwi9o 4
went at that time. The specification ass
were thirty or forty men 70 cut cane
at thirteen and half cents ton and
| load 1t at fourteen cents; men who had 80
already worked in the fields; SINGLE mea ~
p modet altnoega, they could accom-, Asi
! o,er imr,a1;a. 49, NJ i"en - pe seht ea.t
| four hours were spent in rounding up
| the men. Eight families were foun,l 9ttt
among the Spanish, Portuguese and ,t,.
! Porto Ricans on our lists which could
| be uprooted on such short nosiee. The fsSb
| Russians were not asked as they had ~Sf
| not worked on plantations before; the
| lew single men we had ON our lists
teen FiIipinos Mbn 80 - . iou s,sa.
work to complete the maximum NUM- ami
her. Four buss loads left the office 4e-f
L han a L.. a q
J~ete %HO fr"S ssAs sSs, she aare 70 be de- xef
| course OF the next few days all but Ave ss'sf
Porto Rieans and the FilipInos return. ataf
ed to Honolulu. Although the spanish
and Portuguese understood the speeif- ~
| cations and repeated them correctly
they refused to do anything but day. 800
| work. The Porto Rieans returned 81
| bringing with them everything that u Il,
| they could lay their hands on; they FL
have not returned to us but the span. on
ish and Portuguese did. At the Gov s
ernor's suggestion the men, eight in t,.fn
| all, were referred to the police Cap
tain MeDuiiie came to investigate Foo
fouT days the organization refused re-
| lief, then the Spanish consul came TO TN
| ask for action. The women and chll.
taor.n 49, 49, oeen taken. down 20 the res osie
ing further has been heard from the
police. Such lack of cooperation does
i not make the work here any easier. -
1 -Four of these men were examined by
4 the doctor and reported unfit for work, d.
a fact which naturally, FhAn eed The N..,a
I situation. These eases were referred t. "a
i the immigration Bureau.
Il THE men sent TO Kamehameha are
i reported satisfactory Most Of the s.,.s
i men sent there had families whom we taos
were supporting. .-,.
Il - Many on Sick List
almost every day relief eases are
sent TO Mr. C. II. Dickey for work IN wv
the park. The amount Of Temunera-
tion has been reduced to twenty-five ttfvt
cents for an afternoons work. or Il yf
single men, two meal tickets. The
number of single men asking for rs-
lief has greatly increased. Eleven Of NJ
our Russians are on the sick list aad ~
cannot work, ..-.
Both the Salvation Army aud the
Young Mems Christian Association are
having just as hard time in finding ggs
work for their unemployed as We are saa
The salvation Army has men sleeping
on mattresses on the floor il is so over ss
crowded Mr.. Larimer represents the M
Filipino Bureau as well as his own Nh
organization. - +.#a'@."t. MIX
The organization has clothed the
naked, fed the hungry, M -sed the sick . 4
Gll aaaI To-