South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-08
CHICAGO SHIPS
UNEMPLOYED HERE
IObIess in Windy City Get Fares
Paid and Recommendation TO
Apply at Local Factories
Where Work is Scarce.

CHICAGO. Dec S.-There are
$4,000 unemployed i'm Chicago,
according to the report OF Mrs
LeOnora T. MedCr, commissioners
OF public welfare Of the total
$4,000 are men. IS 0Oo single wc-
men. and $4,000 married women
The pohce department had sent
ont warning against the flock
ing here of people seeking work.
That Chicago. failing 20 provide for
its homeless ana unemployed thous-
ands, haas, through It's charitable or
ganlzauons, employment agencies and
other associations, started general
western hegITa to South Bend and
middle west cities, was confirmed in
an interview with Frank j. Murphy,
superintendent oI the local branch OF
the Indiana lree employment bureau
agency Monday afternoon.
The local agency m the past three
weeks has received more applications
for any sort Of work. and has found
fewer openings than IN the other 10
months OF the year com bined.
The usual mass of local unemployed
who seek assistance through the local
agency is augmented every day Dy
hundreds from Chicago VINO plead
tories IN this city.
With a daily list of 500 applications
from men and women who are sur
fering through lack OF means 10 pro-
vide food for themselves and famiAes.
ana an average OF not more than two
or three openings "a DAY, the agency is
at loss to cope with the situation.
The Chicago men who apply wave
written circulars and newspapers in
the face OF the men in charge OF the
agency, which state that the various
factories OF this city are about TO
open with full forces. Some even say
that their fare was paid from the
western metropolis SO that they might
take advantage OF the opportunities
reported TO exist in this city.
one gang which was supposed to
have been shipped out of Chicago said
that their fares had been paid from
that city, SO shat its limits would be
rid of them. They went on TO tell of
conditions in Chicago, where the right
of the unemployed has become a fac
tor of the past and where instead of
free provisions, the bread line is fur
nished with the carfare to take the
men from the city TO other localities.
The method used by the organiza-
tiOns IN shipping out" the multitudes
IS simple. When man applies for
food or lodging and his case is worthy
OF attention, he is furnished with
money and a recommendation TO the
factories in the town TO which he hap
pens to be going. 1t was reported at
the local agency that in the majority
of cases this city was the one recon-
mended. In other cases Gary was
recommended.
The hope that local factories will
start again has caused an influx of un-
employed men To this city that would
make an army said Mr.. Murphy
They come from all over the west
Chicago principally. We can do moth
ing for them. We have not enough
for South Bend men who have been
unfortunate. AS far as il is possible
we always place local men first"
A. X. Erskine, vice president and
treasurer OF the Studebaker corpora
ton, when interviewed upon the sub
ject Of the factOry's resuming busi-
ness regularly, made the following
statement:
we are running 60 per cent ca
pacity now. When the work upon the
big European contracts is started our
present force will not be perceptibly
increased. This is official"