New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-11

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him down and out, Is typical Of those
who believe that "hustler" can get a
job If he will dig" for one hard
enough.
4 read with interest the story of
in New York City.
Il have been out OF regular Job
since April. when | was laid off with
many more men, as the factory where
was employed only worked half-time.
| managed to get some odd jobs and
pulled through. Then | went West
and worked as farm hand, saving
mere for q job as shipping clerk.
But on the way TO New York | was
held up, numerically beaten and
robbed of every damned cent. Thus
landed in New York penniless.
a went to the Bowery Y. NJ. c. A. to
clean up. But when | saw about me
such a sorry lot of men panhandling
for living, and without any go or
ambition TO do anything else, started
walking north, refusing TO bum money
from any one.
I'm Harlem / had the offer of a job
at some heavy work, but as | weigh
only 1l6 pounds | was unable to hold
it. The same thing happened in irving
ton. So l kept right on going to Tar
rytown, where ! landed my present
job and am now fixed in it.
II get S45 a month and my board
and room. and so am able to get along
pretty we'll am now saving up for
some good clothes. My opinion is that
if man hustles he can land a job.
AS the Salvation Army says, You
might be DOWN, but never out
Out of Work Eight Months
Contrasting with this letter and the
spirit of the man who wrote it is one
from college graduate, who says tina.
he hasn't been able to find work for
eight months His letter, which is IL
illustrative of many which hold the view
opposed to that Of shipping clerk
Teske, reads as follows:
"Referring to the statement that all
a man has to do is to dig III and keer
digging until he gets job ] deny this
assertion. because l have been digging
and looking around for those jobs
which you, the only newspaper in New
York, says exist in appreciable num-
bers.
81 am no bench warmer, foater or
panhandler, but am simply like many
others who cannot get JOB when there
are none unless you have lots OF eX-
perience, or are, like Aas.a, with wis
dom from birth.
"Instead of belonging to such classes
Of society l can produce graduation
certificate from Fordham University,
which feat l accomplished by working
my way through. After graduation, in
1920, I secured a position with Under
wood & Underwood, of this city, which
l kept until last January. Then came
the great business slump, and l was
laid off with all the other employees
who had been there less than year.
"Since then l have tried place after
out success. Education, which men,
such as the big employer of labor you
mentioned talk blue in the face for.
is not wanted, but only experience in
the business in question.
Differs With Executive
"I also fatty deny the statement at
tributed to the New York executive
that the present process is the weed
ing out of incompetents in all indus
tries of the country l claim it is more
than wedding out; it is the laying off
of good workers, not the best, but ones
plenty good enough to work steadily
in ordinary times. l know several in
stances OIL cases OIL LhlS nature.
"He says we are wedding out the
lazy, incompetent and weaklings.' Very
good. / suggest another wedding out,
the elimination of the big bulk of
women workers who came in during the
war. They belong in the homes, and
eventually they will go there. Then,
perhaps, the so-called inefficient, lazy
and weaklings will get a chance to
exist honestly, which this man so au-
thoritatively tries to deprive them of.
"He also claims a good man can
always get job. Yes, very good
man, with the addition of some lying;
some good men, but not all. l also no
tice that the reporter who got those
jobs did not get them through friend,
employment agency, charity organiza-
ton or help wanted adj This ought to
prove that jobs are not appreciably
plentiful. His way of getting work
may do for some, but not for the big
majority Jobs surely cannot be plen-
tiful when an experienced reporter
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