The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-03
PLEA MADE. FOR
 l UNEMPLOYED BY . CORRESPONDENT
Urges That Opportunity Be Given Prospectors and
 Workers to Make Stake.

JUNEAU, Dec 3-To the Editor When one intellgently investigates the yaunted charitable character of our working men, one finds a test under which it will not stand up. They will not give until you ask them. They are not such volunteers of true charity as we read about. I have discovered, for instance, there are lot of men who have more than enough on which to pass the winter. And there are others who have not. , The former hold the jobs down; and the former are preferred because the hold on to jobs in the face of q fact we'll known to them that there, are others who would regard it as mama from heaven to get in week or a fortnight once in while to keep the wolf from the door The fellow with the fat bank-roll should not be thus preferred when hunger is walking the streets in the shape of honest-to-God working men. Your genuine working man hates charity. All he wants Is chance to keep out of jail. In the State of Wash ington, men have come to an arrange ment wherein all may get by this winter by working in spells of al week or so at a time. The married men are favored. And, incidentally. it is a good thing for the married men that there are so many uni married Here is test of Northern hospitality .man.to-mani Let those wbp have made theirs get out ini favor of some other man for a while instead of hogging all the work. + speak of the single man and to them. don't wish to preach to those who have prodigally blown" all they made this summer, in ways that are dark and past understanding. They had no right to do that either.
 The prospector who comes in about now after diligent search for the rainbow-treasure is entitled to chance to work. He finds, in stead, that others who do not take a chance on their mineral instincts are only too willing that he contin- ues fasting in town as well as in the mountains It is not fair; that's all There are others in town who "get by" in some mysterious way summer and winter. which is best known to themselves. Their "sys- tenn" is past being puzzle to me and have long since ceased being curious. They are always the same al fn1,f ;,, ,trr1,f onf The work, they do it not at all discernible to the naked eye. Hawks and owls an bats and things need no one to speak for them-they speak silently for themselves. No! I speak for the honest-to-go goodness working man. The common day laborer. He knows that Capital is not the only selfish animal from his own bitter experiences.
 (Signed) W. J. D. McGIBBON.
 Enquiries made yesterday by rep resentatives of The Empire of both the Alaska-Juneau and the Alaska Gastineau managements reveal the fact that there is work for all ex- perienced miners underground. Man ager P. R. Bradley of the former company stated that there is employ ment available at the Alaska-Juneau mine for any number of experienced underground men but nothing in sight for the surface workers. L. J. Leedy, in charge of the employment office of the Alaska Gastineau com Dany stated that there are plenty of vacancies in the Thane mine for underground workers, but no stand
 Ing vacancies for surface workers, an occasional order for small groups of four or five of the latter being easily filled when it is posted.-Ed) J