The Detroit times., 1915-01-13
PRESENT STRESS
TEACHES LESSON
In PROVIDENCE
JObless Men Will Try to Prevent
Recurrence of Plight,
Clifford Argues
TINES GIVES AID TO
BOARD OF COMMERCE.
Helps to Secure Assistance For
Those Whose Distress
Is Pressing

II, in years TO come. there is an
other industrial depression. and thou
sands OF men are thrown out of work.
the problem OF relieving the unem-
ployed in Detroit will not be nearly
as serious and complicated as il has
been this winter. according to Charles
III. Clifford. vice-president Of the De
troit Board OF Commerce who has
given most Of his time. during the last
six weeks, TO organization OF the
boards relief movement
Placing this relief work on bus
inesslike basis. registering and inves-
tigating each case. has enabled Us to
get at the bottom OF the situation,
said Mr.. Clifford. II believe IL has
taught a lesson TO workingmen as well
as to their employers Even II the
good work done by the Board of Com
merce and The Detroit Times, in the
interests Of the jobless men OF De
troit. had not given relief in hun
dreds OF cases, we would be we'll re-
paid. Workingmen who are suffering
this winter. will fortify themselves
against another such plight when
they again obtain employment.
Employers who have seen the actual
suffering among their men. soon aft.
er they were laid of, or have read
about the individual cases in The
Times daily list, will, am sure, do
their best TO organize their affairs so
that their men can earn enough 10
support themselves and families. En-
ployers are also interested. as the
result of what they have seen and
L. min in ha VfNl1 lam Of
adjusting Affairs az far as possible
so that there will be no rush season
and no idle season. To balance con
steady demand for labor all the year
around. is the great problem which
lconfronts US.
The Detroit Board of Commerce has
no intention OF disseminating its re.
| lief work in the near future, as was
reported by a morning newspaper
Hundreds OF men are being registered
daily. and in cases where there Is
need OF immediate attention. the big
Brothers" of the board are respond
I Ing nobly. The United Charities is
also attending 10 the wants of desti-
tute families, Employers are engag-
ing as many men as possible, and
while the number of applicants for
work IL many times as large as the
number OF vacancies. officials in
charge OF the relief movement know
that they have gotten the best pos
sible results out OF what seemed like
a hopeless situation BY centraliz
ing the work, and coming in personal
contact with employer and employe
they miss no opportunity 10 give work
TO a man where there is a possible
opportunity.
On such broad and business-like
scale has the work been conducted
that civic bodies Of other cities inter
ested in the problem Of the unem
ployed are writing TO the Detroit
Board OF Commerce for reports or
the work and its results In this city
Following Is list OF some of the
cases reported, Monday:
66-This man Is laborer. has 81,
children, and expects the seventh IN
a few weeks One of his children. q
boy, is unable TO go TO school because
he has no shoes There is nothinl
to eat in his home, he said and hi;
landlord is clamoring for $50 for rent
The father has had no steady woil
for a year.
67-He Is also a laborer. but ha:
turned his earnings Of other years Il
good account. and has 81 900 paid or
his home. There is $4,000 still due
and he is now far behind on his pay
ments, because OF six months idle
ness, and fears that he may lose his
home.
6S-A chauffeur. who has splendid
10 L.
county official He has a wife and
two children, and is $40 in debt foI
board for his family. Would gladly