The sun., 1918-07-03
5000 SEEK HAVEN
OF LABOR BUREAUS
Most Fugitiyes From Anti
LOafing Law Beyond
Draft Age.
PROVES A BOON TO CITY
Police Say Parasites and Petty
Criminals Are Gone
or Busy.

The anti-loafng law which Monday.
the first day of its operation, brought
6.24I applicants for work to the various
Federal employment bureaus in this city.
justified itself again yesterday when
5000 more men came looking for en-
ployment, and l.747 of them were as
signed TO tasks which will aid directly
In winning the war.
The men appeared in large numbers
at all OF the twelve Offices which the
Government has established . this city
as bureaus for the recruiting of war
labor, more than 5000 OF them applying
at the main office. 90 East Twenty sec
ond street The lines OF waiting men
had thinned but little when the offices
closed for the day at o'clock, and as
many applications as yesterday are ex-
pected for to-day.
The offices will be closed tomorrow,
and so that no worthy men need spend
the nations birthday in apprehension
the ploice will make no arrests between
to-day and Friday.
Most Above Draft Age.
The officials in charge OF the labor
bureaus found qualification yesterday in
the fact that nearly all the men who
came to them were beyond the military
draft age, and some disappointmen in
the fact that about 30 per cent of them
were unskilled. There was also an en-
barrassing percentage OF clerks. time
keepers and checkers. and until some
plan is devised by which these latter can
be given useful work they will have to
wait for assignments.
The bureau chiefs were gratified also
by the fact that but few OF the appl!-
On t. taAI ~
ments which placed them at work in
places remote from this city.
For the benefit OF whoever Is reason.
ably qualified. II was announced tina,
the bureaus are in crying reed OF soc
| carpenters. 500 hoilermakers. 400 iron
workers and--200 constructors. They
will be paid from 65 to S. cents al
hour, while as many machinists and too
makers as present themselves will re.
ceive the top figure Of IS cents, or Sc 50
a day exclusive Of overtime. Most OF
the skilled men are needed In ship yard:
in Connecticut and on staten Island.
The police acclaimed the new Law
yesterday as one of the best ever spread
| upon statute book. They discovered
when they began looking for the NOR,
than 5000 small criminals and para
sites they had listed as probable grist
of the law, that practically all OF then
had either fled the city or had contrived
| to find employment which is likely &c
keep them out OF mischief.
Hundred Arrests Yesterday.
About 100 loafer suspects of all az
fected ages were picked up by the police
in the FIVE boroughs yesterday and q
little less than half OF them held fol-
| trial at Special Sessions A number Of
! those who were not held were taken e
| labor registry bureaus under police es
| cort.
a post card from Mrs Regina Furs
| of 1910 Hoe avenue, Tho Bronx, brought
| a policeman to the bedside Of her son
| Michael, 81 years old The officer hat
| TO shake Michael roughly to arouse him
| and Michael sitting a yawn. requested
| that the policeman call again in ahou
| an hour. In the Morrisania police cour
| he described himself as a button sales
! man.
THAT would be true" said his mother
! III he would make a sale now and then
| AS 1t Is he gets up little before noon
reads the papers until evening and thel
| goes out for the air. He complains tina
since the war the public Is boarding IL
money and using last years buttons"
| Michael was held in 5000 bail
The police maze one false move in tn,
| arrest OF Ranjou Falada. "A Hindoo. u
is of slight stature and appears about 81
! years old. In court he produced an OK
| ford degree conferred upon him at hi
graduation there in 1887.
Mother Accuses Son OF Loafinr.
Louis opposite. IS, Of 266 North SIKH
street, Williamsburg. was held ycsterda!
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