New-York tribune., 1918-07-03
ldler Army,
Fleeing Raids,
Storms Jobs
Anti-Loahng Order Fills
Farmers Demands, u. S.
Officials Declare

unemployed men Of working and draft
age in greater New York seeking iohs
yesterday as there were the dav bs-
fore, when the compulsory stampede
for work began in earnest The lines
in front Of the Federal employment
bureaus were almost as long and the
clerks were just as busy jotting down
biographical bulletins of applicants
who, When put to the test, preferred
work at good wages to jail sentences.
Federal employment officials said
that the combined pressure exercised
by the patriotic appeal to men OF
working age, the threat of punishment
for industrial shirkers and the demand
for workers at good wages had hardly
begun to produce an appreciable thin
ming of the ranks of the unemployed.
as evidenced by view from the office
windows of the employment bureaus.
Men have been deserving the unem-
ployed army by wholesale for several
days, but the gaps in the ranks Of the
jobless seem 10 be filled in some way
or another.
Farmers Well Supplied
But while the jobless army has not
been destroyed, jobs are rapidly being
filled. Charles 3. Barnes, superintend-
ent of the United States Employment
Service for New York State, said there
was a noticeable relief in industrial
circles. In few instances, he stated
the supply of workers was nosing
ahead of the demand. He declared that
the farms in this state appear to be
fully supplied with schoolboy laborers,
and now that all schools are closed
for the summer there are boys to spare.
There were thirty-two men arrested
yesterday in Manhattan, Brooklyn and
The Bronx under the work or fight"
order Of General Crowder and the state
anti-loafing act. This brings the total
of arrests for idleness up TO seventy
one in greater New York since the two
nti-loating measures went into effect
Monday.
At the main Office of the Federal
Employment Bureau, % East Twenty
second Street, it was announced that
1921 men had been registered at the
employment stations in Manhattan on
Monday. Of this number 1866 wero
directed to jobs. More than 5000 men
were interviewed by the Federal
agents.
Many Sent to Jobs
There also were large crowds at all
the other stations in the borough.
Monday 1873 men registered a. 22l Bow
cry, 100 applied for jobs at 240 West
twenty third Street, lo3 men were sent
cat to work from the Office at 124th
Street and Lenox Avenue and 10l were
directed t, positions from the Office &
eS4 Columbus Avenue.
About 10 per cent of the men who an
piled Tor positions vlre unskilled
laborcrs There was also q large num-
ber of clerks, who had been working as
checkers, stockmcn and in other minor
clerical positions. The Federal author
tues appeared . bit worried about these
clerks. They said there were no
acquisitions at all for such clerical
workers.
Henry D. sayer, state director of the
Federal Employment Service, thought it
would be possible to place them as
helpers in munition plants and ship
yards. Otherwise, he said. thew would
have to take Up manual labor.
According to the statistics at the
main employment Office, out OF 653 men
directed TO positions from that Office
alcne on Monday 396 were native Amer
leans, lo9 were aliens and IS were
naturalized citizens.
Director John r. OIeary Of the Fed
eral Employment Service said he had
applications for about five hundred car
penters, wanted in shioyards liz Con-
nectlcut The wage offered is 6212
cents an hour. There are 500 boiler
makers wanted in factories on Staten
island and in Connecticut, and LOCO
laporers are wanted for construction
work IN West Virginia, as we'll as 400
iron workers.
The Federal employment bureaus will
be closed tomorrow
Deputy Police Commissioner William
j: Lahey, who IS in charge Of enforcing
the antI-Idleness laws, said almost all
the five thousand undcsirables whom
me police had listed last month had
lett the city, leaving no forwarding ad-
dress. He said they had scattered 10
all corners of the land and that the
ponce OF otEer cities would now have
to deal with them. This list included
racetrack touts and handbook men,
lounge lizards and tango artists. shop
~ tiers gamblers, panhandlers, dock
We cdchucks," dope fiends. cunmen and
all the assorted varieties Of oangsters
%nc petty criminals which keep the po-
lice busy.
Among the men arrested Yesterday
was professor" Ranjoj Hyloo Falada.
llvlng at 247 West 131st Street. He
SAID he was tifty-one years old when
brought before Magistrate Brough in
the Washington Heights Court. and was
paroled IN the custody of his counsel.
Inc pollce said he was only forty-four
falada is an East Indian
'Too Tired to Work
Captain Noble. of the Simpson Street
station. yesterday received postcard
inviting HIM to send detective 10 call
on Michael Furst, 1910 Hoe Avenue,
who did not seem to be working. Pa
trolman Wu6enharst visited Furst's
nome at 9 O'Clock in the morning and
found his man in bed
When | spoke to him. he turned over
IN bed and yawned and told ne 70 come
back in about an hour the policeman
testified. after he mad dragged Furst
out OF bed and in.o the Morrisania
Court, where he was charged with VIC
lasing the compulsory labor law.
Furst, who is thirty-one wears old,
said he used to sell buttons for living.
His mother, Mrs. Regina Furst. said her
son had not worked for months. that
ne generally slept till 10 O'Clock and
hung around the house until late in the
afternoon. turst was held in $500 bail
Tor the Court OF Special Sessions.
Many Held 10 Court
Magistrate Nolan, Of the Essex Mar