The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-28
FINDING JOBS FOR ALI
KINDS OF WORKERS
in THE UNITED STATES
Terence v. Powderly Tells of Government Plan
to Create Employment Agency Covering
Every City and Village So That Help
and Situations May Be Obtained
Without Payment of Fees

1000, 600 men were out of work in his
country.
Later I gave the subject my per-
sonal attention. rejecting all the fig
ures that were not official. and con-
cluded that ! had probably overesti-
mated the number of men then idle
at our mines, in our mills and fac
tories and on our farms and railr ads.
Sine the publication of my paper
in the Rerictc l have been studying
that particular phase of the labor
question. Many thousands Of men are
out Of work every winter even in good
times. Masons, bricklayers. plas-
terers. carpenters and structural
ir nworkers are idle in cold weather.
The men who help them are idle.
Transfers who haul material to them
are idle.
Less freight-bricks. lumber and
so on-is shipped over the railroads
and fewer train hands in consequence
are employed. B~rickyards. sawmills
and ron works are slowed down. Sea-
iona conditions. y"u see. are far
reaching and include the farms. where
there is little to do excep to take care
of the live stock.
Therefore in bad times and pros
porous times thousands of men are
unemployed at their usual callings for
n considerable peri,d every winter.
We overlook this serious social fact
and fail to realize that a great army
of our workers. thrifty men for most
part, must spend in cold weather the
savings they put away when they
have employment.
1T is said by a large body Of our
voters that the tariff, if lowered, lets
IN foreign goods and that wien for
eign goods come into our market
Americans are deprived Of the wages
they would have been paid had the
gods been manufactured in this
country. Will not go into that much
discussed aspect of the tariff question.
Let me say. however. that if all
Americans would follow my custom,
fereign goods could find no sale in the
United States and tariff discussions
would come to an end on the stump
and in newspapers. | never buy any
thing hat is made outside OF this
country.
THE cloth in my clothing. my hats.
my shoes, my hose. my liner and my
underwear are now and always have
been manufactured in the United
States.
My coffee from Brazil, ! sup
pose; my tea from China or Japan
and my spices from some faraway
islands or countries, but everything
else that goes into my house is made
or grown at home. That Is the only
way by which to settle the tariff
question and to AXE it out of politics"
sENNHln, 4. ia. ,a,s.,.f
doing To find employment for men out
Of work." Mr.. Powderly was asked.
"A law of 1907 created the division
of information in the Bureau of I'M
migration. l was appointed chief of
the division, the duty of which. the
law orders. is TO promote a beneficial
distribution of aliens admitted into the
United States among the several
States and Territories desiring .mmi-
grafton.
Il wa directed by the Law 20 gather
from all available sources useful in
formation regarding the
products and physical characteristics
of each State and Territory. to pub
lish such information in different Lam
GuaGes and TO distribute publications
containing the information among all
admitted aliens who may ask for such
publications at the immigrant sta
tons,
Were you to land at Calais in
France. or Genoa in Italy you would
hardly ask for a printed document OF
which YOU had never heard. We got
around the may ask phrasing Of the
law and arranged that immigrants
arriving in this country should be told
where they were most likely TO OBJ
tain employment.
began the efforts of the national
Government to bring employees and
employers together. We called il the
distribution of aliens to those re-
gions where workmen were in demand.
our object was to promote their own
welfare and to do a service for those