The Washington herald., 1921-09-11

Unemployment Situation Shows Marked Lmpro,

tisties Of the Department OF Labor showed
an Of 1903 per cent as reported by sxty-6ve
principal industries -
Blu, labor. received several johs shortly after
August passed and parades and barbecues being
held all over the country. The wages of more than
1000 in the Chicago building trades reduced
as the result OF ruling by Judge X. M. Lands
eliminating iabor-contractor agreements that
blamed for one of the biggest building combines in
the world. Secretary Of Navy Denby ordered 10 to
q 20 per cent wage cut among $1,000 Navy Yard en-
poyes, and thousands Of other wage suffered
proniscuous reductions.
The mine strike war in West Virginia was queted
BY the Federal troops, following the surrender Of
several hundred miners, and one Of two regiments
sent to West Virginia under command Of Brig. Gen.
H. H. Bandholtx ordered Withdrawn early in
the week. Forty warrants issued for the ar
rest of miners who participated in the march that
Twas followed by fighting. and the Logan County
grand jury has been called to meet next Wednesday.
State troops sent from Willamston to Hunting
with for the arrest Of c. F. Keaney and
Fred Mooney. president and secretary OF the United
Mine Workers District No. ~. They have been
Indicted on charges Of murder sa
n LTHOuGH quiet has been restored the Fed
"A eral patrols found . number of hiding places
where miners were keeping firearms, and there were
efeports of plot to the conflict when the
troops have been entirely Withdrawn.
Trouble similar to that of West Virginia was
brewing in the coal fields of Illinois around Eldorado.
more than Boo dissatisfied miners having pitched
camp at that place, thirty miles from Ezabethtown.
following several batties. At Hog Thiefs ford.
the Harrison road truck train was held up. the
miners being routed and forced to abandon prisoners
and autos. Women and children driven from
home by mine guards the strikers say, following
shooting Rosiclare last week, when the trouble
began. The Eidorado camp has been reinforced in
the last few days by coming directly from their
jobs in the field, swelling the number to 1000. and
there was talk Friday of march similar to that
which preciptated the in West Virginia.
Kansas City was the principal of Labor
Day celebrations miles Of cheering workers march
ing behind biaring bands" Trucks, floats and motor
cars figured in the demonstration throughout which
thousands Of banners Auttered.
Gross injustice was suffered by the South because
the recent pellagra scare according to the South
Medical Journal. published at Birmingham. Many
millions Of people who have migrated from the North
and Middle West to the Northwest and Canada, said
the paper in its September ISSUE would have come
South but for fear of yellow fever malaria hookworm
and other tropical diseases The reputation of being
hotbed of disease has interfered with the develop
Of the fertile lands in the United States
and has prevented many industries from locating in
the South
I(NELLoW FEVER having been driven forever
from the Gulf and Atlantic ports and mala-
ria and hookworm having been eradicated in some
and greatly reduced in other Southern States there
has been the hope that many white farmers liv-
ing the hghprced lands of other sections of the
country could be induced to take advantage Of the
opportunity to buy and cultivate the cheap and fer
tile lands Of the South. There is particular
nee, for farmers to take the places of hundreds of
thousands Of negroes who lured from the farms
of the South by the high wages in industrial centers
of the North during the war; and plans have been
made in many Southern States to induce white la
borers and farmers to South but this hope has
been shattered by dispatches that the South is suffer-
ing famine and peIIagra. The people of the South,
who, with few exceptions eating three we'll
balanced meals day, appealed to the President, who
out the edict that the multitudes in the South