The Chitina leader., 1914-12-22

dividends for the steel trust, and furnish steady employment for 8 limited number in small portion o! Pennsylvania; but it will not answer
 the call of the hungry and destitute of the east, the north, the south or he west. From the very shadows ,f this company's works-from the city of Pittsburg comes this report in paper of December 3:
 "The finance committee of the city council provided for public i'm provements to cost $49.5o0 and in- tended especially to give work to the unemployed, in the cleaning and improving of streets and parks and
 for a new baseball ground in High land park. Another important i'm |provement not actually needed is a tunnel under Grant boulevard; but I.the work will keep the spectre If hunger from many homes."
 The amount of unemployment ID Okln lo dPPuAAlAS, oAo thS SSA ereal public would be amazed to learn the low rates of wages that
 are being paid to clerks and assist ants in the city," declared Delegate James Ussher at a meeting in the
 the Canadian metropolis appropos
 the proposal to hold social survey
 of the city. Many of the clerks and
 others are not receiving enough
 wages to provide bread for theil families it was claimed.
 Returning to points nearer home:
 The associated charities of Aber'
 deen, a lumber manufacturing town where mills are running short time
 when not closed entirely, applied te the city council for permission te
 let idle men cut timber on street
 extensions, the association to pay the men $1 a rick and sell the wood
 to dealers. Married men are to te
 given preference and the work is
 expected to last all winter. They can make s2 a day by hustling.
 What are we going to do to aid the needy?" asks the Everett
 Tribune, which quotes the city em ployment agent as saying more thar 1000 men are out of work there with prospect of the number beins
 doubled there before spring. The paper contains accounts of crowt of more than 100 men marching
 daily to the city hall and demanding
 that the city commission give then
 employment making needed i'm movements on streets and parks. Al the recent city election proposition to issue bonds for this work was voted down. Owners of large tracts of real estate in the suburbs are en- deavoring to furnish work at $1.5t per day clearing, although public sentiment there-the town is recog- niZed as strongly ''union'-ls
 against accepting less than S2.7a
 Ghingle manufacturers submitted proposition to their employees to reduce wages about 10 per cent, but the offer was voted down unanim'
 ously. the men advising the owners to close the mills rather than per init the brokers and spectators to run and ruin their business Tor them.
 'We don't want charity-we want N ork," said one of the idle men who Tad been referred to the association which has been able to care for only
 a small portion of the calls for assistance.
 The Tribune states that loan to
 the city by individuals is being con sidered, but those making the offer
 do not approve of the proposed mini
 num wage of S2.75. The mayor suggested s2 as the maximum. One man said: "I must have something to do to get food for my
 children. Before I will let them 80
 hungry, I will work for 75 cents a day"
 State Senator John E. Campbell
 has prepared a bill to be introduced
 at the coming session of the legis- laturc of Washington appropriatins
 s25O,OeO for immediate relief ct unemployed. Writing magazine and newspaper articles will not pro- vide food and shelter for the winter for men and women out of jobs, or
 for their more helpless children,
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