New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
WARN OTHER CITIES
TO KEEP own IDLE
New York Not Able to
Care for "DrifterS,'
Judge Gary Says.
APPEAL SENT TO
ALL EMPLOYERS
Suggestions Made to Them Tor
Cooperation in Distributr
ing the Burden.

The Na,or's Committee on Jnem-
plovment. headed by Judge Ebert u.
Gary. chairman o. the board Of dlrec-
/ tors of the United States steel Cor
/ poration. has decided that New YORK
3 will be able 20 care for only its own
/ distressed and idle men and women.
/ In a preliminary report OF the cNecu-
/ tive committee, submitted yesterday
after meeting at Mr.. Gary's Offices, It
/ was urged that the authorities OF
other cities be informed not TO en-
courage the tide OF unemployed that IS
drifting into the city.
II was also suggested that WORK on
all public projects that could be done
IN the winter be- started NJ once. Men
cut Of work would supply the LABOR.
Operations on the contemplated ne"
courthouse was mentioned as one
enterprise Offering employment. Inc
committee aid not urge the city 20 I'M
dcrtakc new operations, but to push
those already approved. IL was deemed
advisable that employment under mu-
nicipal contracts be given only to citl-
zens of New York in need of and ready
and willing TO labor.
Judge Gary in Plea.
An open letter to employers in and
about New York was signed and ISSUED
by Mr.. Gary. 49,
"Tbe executive committee OF the
MAYORS Committee on Unemployment
addresses this appeal TO YOU he wrote
70 the manufacturers. Thousands OF
men in New York are seeking work.
There is no artificial means of giving
these men work. They can be employed
only through the normal channels OF
business and industrial activity.
1--WE urge YOU 10 MAINTAIN your pres
ent employment if you cannot extend
II. and submit to you the following
suggestions. one or more OF when you
NAV find it feasible 10 adopt. Inc
situation is urgent and demands the
natriotic cooperation OF the entire
business community of the city. Are
sny of the following practicable?
First-If your product is not subject
TO seasonablc nuctuation or changes III
styIe manufacture now reserve STOCK
against n future market.
Second-If your output is running
below normal utilize this slack period
TO overhaul and repair your plant ana
machinery. III
Third-If you are unable to give iuil-
lime employment to your entire force
employ the fullest possible NUMBER ior
part time, thus distributing the bur-
den.
Fourth-If YOU contemplate making
additions to your plant do ii now.
"The welfare of New York depends
,Ipon lis business and industrial activ-
ity. Every sign points TO "A steady and
early Improvement in business condl-
tions. despite the continuance of the
European war. We cannot urge you too
strongly TO contribute what you can IN
dividually by giving employment. help
now"
According to the announcement made
at the close OF the meeting, which was
private one, the suggestions 10 the
Navor were the only concrete evidences
of the committees activity to date.
"The meeting was well attended and
a number of questions relating to
means of employment were considered,
+ the chairman said. Considerable prog
ross has been made. but il is impossi-
BILE at this time to state the scope or
method of accomplishing what Is IN
tended. Many meritorious suggestions
have been offered and are under con-
sIdcration.
Judge Gary said that the plan for
establishing a loan fund for those VINO
desire TO borrow was referred to a
specia committee to be appointed
later. SO was the scheme for the city
providing quarters for homeless men.
The committee agreed to cooperate
with the Inter Church Committee on
unemployment in holding meeting at
the METROPOLITAN Opera House on Jan
uarv %. to be addressed by Theodore
/ Roosevelt.
a subcommittee. OF which Darwin j..
Meserole. of Brooklyn, is chairman,
submitted report urging the city TO
become a manufactures. There were
countless vacant lofts that might be
rented and filled with unemployed
workers. men and women, among whom,
the committee stated, would be found
tailors. shoemakers, garment workers,
hatters. carpenters, cooks, cabinetmak-
ers and members of every other known
trade capable of making for themselves
clothing, food. household furniture and
utensils. A number of buildings could
be set apart as living quarters Tor
homeless men. With the money they
earned they could buy back the prod
ucts of their labor.
AS to the problem Of financing this
work" Mr.. Meserole said. IF the state
needed these men IN case OF war. now
long would it take the city and State
Of New York and the nation to employ
them at an expense in the field OF
from SO to So a day in purely destruc-
tive work, and at the same time sup
porting their wives and families at
home? What the state can do in time
of war we can do by employing these
men IN wealth producing labor
"Uobo Kings" Plea Heard.
Ono Of the suggestions the Mayors
committee has under consideration Is
the adoption of some phase Of the
scheme suggested by JEFF" Davis. who
STYLES himself the King of Hoboes.
II lies in the establishment Of what he
calls a "Hotel de Gnk," place where
men out of work, but willing and eager
10 find employment, may live until they
get it.
Davis and a small troupe OF shoddy
"Bowery bows" invaded the Offices of
/ the United States Steel Corporation,
/ where the meeting was held. As spokes-
man the "hobo king" appeared before
the committee and outlined his plan,
which he had already gone over with
/ CITY Chamberlain Henry Bruere.
Among those who attended were
Judge Gary, Otto Barnard. Cornelius
Bliss, Hugh Franey, City Chamberlain
/ Bruere. Louis J. Horowitz. Thomas VI.
= Mulry, Eugene IL. Outerbridge, Leopold
| Plaut. Professor Henry r. Seager, Fred
erjck Strauss, William II. Truesdale,
II. b. Thayer. Roswell d. Tompkins,
Alfred T. White, Charles Sickle. John
/ r. Shillady. Meyer Bloomfield. an ex-
pert on vocational guidance. who was
engaged yesterday by the Mayor com
mittee TO make a six months study OF
the problem of unemployed children Of
working age. and Mrs. James Speyer.