Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-02-04
WILL URGE INSURANCE
AGAINST IDLENESS IN
REPORT TO CONGRESS
Frank P. Walsh Says Migratory
Labor Is Necessary, But
Should Be Kept Busy.
TO STOP VAGRANCY EVILS
Proposed Law Will Be Modelled
After That of England
Points Out Needs.

New York. Feb. IA scheme of UNI
employment insurance akin TO the in
Surahce law of Great Britain, but diff
1eFlhS In that it will have no direct
connection with the land. Will be Il chief
recommendation in the report to be
submitted to congress by the federal
induSlrial relations commission. Chair
man Frank p. Walsh says that this
surely Will be done. He has made Il
special study of the British law initi-
ated by LioNd-Gcorgc. chancellor of the
e~Nchequei, and is convinced that such
a law. with some notifications to meet
American requirements, can he made
successful here.
Chairman Walsh believes that such
Il schclne of insurance can be admin
lstered successfully with the coopera-
ton of labor unions, payments to come
from a luhd jointly contributed by the
ieNeS. VIII meet the problem created
by unemployment, occupational dis
eases and other social evils incidental
TO industrial organization. He catls
1T social Insurance.
Society Is Responsible.
'SocletNs responsibility for evils that
are me direct o~utsrowth of conditions
iof winch society is responsible cannot
be questioned says Mr.. Walsh.
'"i D'S ii'iit iiltlllSlTldI IP-
CINE Uhderernployment and unemploy-
meilt AT certain scaSons and in certain
industries are as inevitable as indus
lflal accidents, and We are as RESPONSE
BILE FOR the suffering they cause. NV
experience with this commission has
been Il revelation to Inc of the indus
trlal Importance of the men who every
winter are forced into bread lines and
municipal lodging houses. Public opin-
ION IS beginning to concede that "A very
large proportion OF these men are not
responsible for their plight. What
very few of US realize is that they are
not only not to blame. but that many
OF our most essential industries could
not be carried on today without the as
sistance of this great army OF homeless
wanderers.
The cold act is that great indus
tries are organized on a basis that alb
s~olucely requires the maintenance of "a
huge class of migratory, homeless men.
men To whom marriage and the privi-
legcs Of citizenship are denied. and
whose circumstances are such AS to bar
them from every comfort ana enjoy
ment that makes life worth the living.
To Stop Vagrancy.
The cutting of timber. the harvest
ing of great crops of grain and fruit
in the west and middle west during the
summer and OF ice in the winter, the
CONSTRUCTION Oh i~diifodIS, highways n
c~analS--theSe are only a few OF the
very necessary tasks that depend for
their doing upon the very men who are
now the concern OF the charity work
ers and sociologists in this and every
other big city. In the great agricul-
tural states of the west these men are
treated with every consideration at the
beginning OF the harvest. Railroad EN-
ployes and town constables allow them
to ride free on their way to tho har-
vests. On their return they are thrown
from the cars, pat in Jail. fined by
magistrates and -stignlatized as unde-
sir9bles Whnse presence is q menace.
Our investigation has shown that a
very large proportion of homeless vaga-
bond laborers started in life as ainbi-
tious. industriaus boys and AVE be-
cone hoboes because circumstance
gaze them little choice"