Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-04-05
AUSTRIA HAS ITS
UNEMPLOYED ALSO
CITIES CROWDED WHILE FARM
FRS ARE COMPLAINING
ABOUT SCARCITY.
CITIES AND LABOR unions
Believe Russia Has Designs on Part
OF Austria
Hungary


oil"hs are beginning To cause serious
anxiety in official and social circles
In Austria II is reported
that there are between three and four
hundrc thousand unemployed in the
cities and manufacturing Centers and
but little prospect Of any immediate
improvement In the Industrial stu
alton At the same time the farmers
are complaining that the country dis
tricts are a.most without male help,
nearly an the able bodied men having
omigrated to Germany or America
All attempts to remedy the situation
lu town and country alike have SO far
proved unsuccessful.
Discomfort Is Increasing fast The
growing number OF men out Of work
threatens to lead to great trouble A
Budapest and Lemberg recent meet
ines Of unemployed developed into
d'sorderly bands which pillaged pro-
vision stores and bakeries until they
were dispersed BY the military II is
feared that unless some means Of re
lief are devised very speedily there
will be new disorder on a tin larger
scale
IN Hungary some action has al
ready been taken to help the uncm-
ployed but nothing has been done IN
Austria. AT Budapest the city council
has agreed to contribute funds with
the aid OF the labor unions for some
systematic form of money payments
to the families of men out Of work.
The unions have agreed to furnish
some six thousand volunteer agents
who Will make n house to house can
vas and report to the city council on
the actual needs.
In Austria the main difficulty in
the way OF helping the unemployed
at the present iuncture lies in the un-
fortuuate political disscnsions on
structiou i'm the imperial parliament
I'm Vienna prevents the issue required,
tho nrespnt telcphone system is IN
adeoIIatc and new lines are urgently
wanted not only in Vienna but
tbouphnut the country while the state
railways are doplorab'y short Of roll
inc stool. and eouipment The GOV
arnnont has PREPARED plans for sup
nIyirr all these deficiencies but can
take no active steps until parliament
anpro,es the loans required
The social democrats are clamoring
tor national Insurance against unem-
nl,,.p,ont They suggest as begin
ming that the government should con-
tribute funds to the labor unions
which already dispense considerable
sans 10 relieve members out Of work.
Thev estimate that between five and
s;v hundred Thousand dollars "A year
would be sufficient. but the Ministry
rf Finance declares that the govern
mont has no money available for such
I purpose and can do absolutely
nothing Moreover the government
takes the position that the whole
question Of insurance against uncm-
pio,,neot is one for the municipali-
tiaa and not for the state to look af-
ter But the local authorities refuse
?, accept this view and demand that
narliament shall deal with the matter
The anxiety Of the Dual 'onarchy
over its northwestern frontier and its
lively suspicion Of continued at
tsmnts by Russia to undermine
Austrian Influence among the al
rcady dlsaffected people OF this dis
trict are illustrated again by the
trial ~ four Ruthenians on the
,borne OF treason which has begun
~, o,,berc The defendants. all
educated men. have already been In
nrisop nearly two years. They are
E, journalist named Bendasiuk, law
sl.denf named Koldra. and two orth-
odov uriosts. Sandovitz and Hudyma.
Two officers Of the Austrian general
staff are attending the trial. since the
charge, against three # the men in
Guide that of espionage in favor of