Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-11
THIRTY. men ARE LAID OFF
BYAssOC|ATED CHARITIES
No More Wood to 30 Sawed, and
Need of Their Families Is
Pressing.
SEND APPEAL TO DIR. BUCHANAN
Able Bodied Men Walk Streets
In Search of Work-Contributio
= Sent The Times-Dispatch Will BE
Promptly Acknowledged.
Contributions Received

a. Because all the cordwood he had on
hand had been sawed and split. Dr.
Names Buchanan, general secretary of
The Associated Charities, had to lay off
thirty men yesterday, and was puzzled
What to do with twenty new appli-
:tants who appeared early in the morn
Dig and asked for work to do. He n
ynallE got hold of some more wood and
The new applicants were put to work,
aDr Buchanan believing 1t better to d.
vide the work so that all might have
a chance. The men who had been work.
eng Tor several days were paid off and
were told to come back again, when
Or. Buchanan hoped to have more wood
Tor them to saw and split
- Thereupon, the thirty men whom cir
cumstances forced DR.. Buchanan to lay
off temporarily We're much DISCOURAGED
and in the basement of the Associated
Charities Building they held a meet
ing to vent their encouragement and
to make further appeal, not for char
fty, but for work.
UNEMPLOYED DRAW
UP SET OF RESOLUTIONS
And they adopted the following res
olution:
I'VE the undersigned men employed
by the Associated Charities hereby held
meeting this morning on account OF
having to lose day from work, many
of us having families to support and
cannot afford to lose q minute, do here
by appeal to DR.. Buchanan to keep us
steady agoing. and thereby keep the
wolf from the door The public knows
their ts no work to be found, and we
the undersigned men know that DIR.
Buchanan is doing n glorious work
we trust copy of this will go the
press. We arc not asking for charity,
hut want work.
(Signed)
James Wiltshire, Robert Lee. Clements
Thomas, Ernest C. Williams, w. B.
= liill. j. J. Silva. C. A Buckner. James
II. Bradshaw, b. r. Bradshaw, L. L.
Shows. Fletcher Lovins. e. j. Zim-
iner. Joseph L. Nunallie j. B. Wilt
shire, w. p. Loving. Joseph Markow,
Il. ]. Kuhn, Thomas Austin. e. A.
Dickman, T. Donly, j. b. Mcbride,
James B!vich, ]. T. Williams. ]. w.
Fclwell, John Burruss, G. Austin, c.
II. Trainum, w. B. Bottoms, George
Brown. James New, B. Meads"
AGREE TO GIVE NEW
MEN AN OPPORTUNITY
= DR.. Buchanan read the resolution
through quietly. and then went down
TO see the men, He told them that it
cants who had no work to do and that
ne would nave to give them the pref
erenee for the time being. The out
gratitude for the work that had been
gwen them Provisions were given
to an and they We're told to come back
Wnen the supply was exhausted
WORK OF some sort has been given
IN tht central office of the Associated
applicants had to be turned away, be,
cause there was not work enough for
Ill ni; bnt no man was turned away
said that his own harder was exhausted.
30 man, woman or child will be al
r n,av nd to En n hnmgry even though they
7. The central office was visited yes
tterday by a steady stream of visi-
and how rapidly it is Increasing. The
problem Is grave, and with the deep
ening OF winter 1t will become more
WALK STREETS FOR DAYS
IN SEARCH OF WORK
Many men said that they had walked
the streets for days In search of work,
to ask of charity. The great majority
OF them have dependent families. and
II charity cofhcs MOTTO their aid. suffer
And so more funds will be needed, and
VIII he needed continuously until Bet
Yer amd nappter times come again for
;, Mrs. X. w. Miller. of Barton Heights.
ma mas al, hSrranged TO give an entertainment
Heights School Tuesday night for the
benefit of the unemployed A tenta-
I'VE tMi pr, program includes a one-act comedy
played by Rene de Milhau, Miss Byrdie
Jones. Miss Martha Lee Stevenson. Mrs.
by Miss Amorettc Allen. n dancing and
singing act by Miss Gladys Martenstein
and Herbert Powell: a Japanese dance
by Leonie and Valerie de Milhau,
solo by Austin Martcnstein and other
dances.
Henry Lee Valentine, chairman of
the hnance committee of the Associ-
ated Charities, who is i'll in New York,
asks for contributions in the following
card received by The Times Dispatch ::
owing 10 my absence from the city.
AZ VIII be impossible for me to handle
me inmds FOR the Associated Charities
this Christmas, but / sincerely hone
that our good and liberal people will
SEND their checks as early as possible
10 our treasurer. G. c. Chaplin. 13 North
Eleventh Street