Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-01
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Men connected with industrial es-
tablishments are commencing to get
very busy, but in a quiet manner, to
safeguard their supplies of labor when
the anticipated revival of activity in
iron and steel and other establish
ments comes this summer and some
inquiries have been made in this sec
ton which indicate that they will need
large numbers of hands. In the last
two years the so-called floating la
Dor supply has diminished materially.
Some of the men have been snapped
up by plants which have been spurred
to great efforts byfwar orders and quite
number of men have gone to other
portions of the country, while others
have gone to labor on farms, a line of
labor with which they are familiar.
Prior to the outbreak of the war thou
sands of men went home and have
probably been drawn into the armies
but there remained many more who
stayed in this country in the hope of
better times and who sensed the
troublous days that have come upon
| their native lands. The number of
men who have returned to fight is said
by men who hire labor to be smaller
than the general run of folks suppose
one of the reasons being that the men
who went back in 1912, when the Bal
kan war broke out, discovered that
| it was no picnic. Stories that hundreds
the last six months are declared to be
| baseless. The fact remains, however,
! that there is scarcity of labor in
sight. The railroads have filed up
| their gangs, most of them are natives
or men who have been in this country
long enough to know that they are bet
ter off here, and some of the con-
| tractors have taken time by the fore
| lock and made sure of their working
forces. The proposed state system of
supervision of employment agencies is
expected to aid immensely in locating
labor for Pennsylvania industries.
Give small boy dog, and he is
happy. 1t matters not what breed the
dog halls from. If it is only a dog, a
boy is happy. Everywhere that boy
goes, the dog follows. 1t may not have
anything on Mary's lamb, but the boy
Is not happy unless he has the dog
with him.
In Harrisburg, however, there is one
boy who is an exception. lie wants
something real in a dog. This boy
called at the police station the other
day and was accompanied by a dog.
The boy was hunting the dogcatcher.
Asked why, he said:
This dog is no good. He is not
even good company. When 1 stop he
falls asleep. He won't even chase a
cat. / don't want a dog like that.
| NIlN6 IlS d uOS lndL Is a real sport.
He is worse than a dead one. All he
does Is eat and sleep" When told that
the dogcatcher was not doing busi-
ness, he remarked, well, l guess
will have to put up with it. No mat
ter how L hate this dog 1 cannot kill
any dumb animal"
One of the things that attracted
much attention about the city yester-
day was the universal display of flags.
1t is doubtful If so many flags have
been put to the breeze on any Memoir
ial day in years. The display ex-
ceeded even independence day in re-
cent years. The flags were literally
flown from almost every house and the
display as in Harrisburg.
Another thing that attracted COM
ment about Harrisburg yesterday was
the number of automobiles driven by
men whose garb proclaimed them to
be members of the Bretnren's denomi-
nation. Scores of machines contain
ing whole families were to be seen
about the city all heading to or from
Hershey. Some of the cars came from
Maryland and Delaware. Apparently,
the Brethren have no objections to
automobiles and Furthermore have the
money to buy them.
More people went to the country
yesterday than ! have known for a
long time" said one of the llverymen
this morning. "And you can talk about
, the automobiles humping my business.
Nothing of the kind. ] had every team
1 own in use yesterday and / could
have rented many more. l tell you,
people will hunt shady lanes in the
country and when they go to them
they want the good horse and buggy"