The New York herald., 1921-09-22
UNEMPLOYED IN Rain
GET MEAL TICKETS
Trbain LedOuX Tramps
About City Spreading Hope
Among the Unfortunate.
TO SEE BISHOP MANNING
VIII Ask for Use of st. Au-
gustine's Chapel in Bowery
for Lodging House.
HYLAN TAKES A HAND
Mayors Committee Will Take
Up Problem Following Re-
quest for ArmOries.
HYLAN TAKES A HAND

Having made his peace with the po-
lice. Urban Ledoux resumed his cru
SADIE on behalf of the unemployed yes
terday and with two plain clothes men
at his heels tramped unmolested from
before daylight until after dark
At A. NJ. he was on the waterfront
distributing meal tickets to 800 idle
seamen who were huddled around bon
fires to keep warm. Two hours later.
with a fresh supply of tickets and 200
morning newspapers. he arrived in
Bryant Park. Several hundred home
less. shivering dereiicts greeted him
joyfuly. Thence he proceeded to
Thirty-fourth street and Eighth ave-
rue, where he fed 200 more.
Mr.. Ledoux then returned to his
headquarters at lis West Fifty fourth
street and got busy on the telephone.
He called up Bishop Manning and ar
at the Synod House of the Cathedral
OF st. John the Divine. The purpos.
OF this meeting, he said. will be to dis
ousS the use of st. Augustine's Chapel
Houston street and the Bowery. as
lodging house for the jobless. Ledoux
also telegraphed to Mayor Hylan re-
uuesting an interview and answered
a stack of letters. most of which con-
tanned offers of aid
He set out again at Q o'clock to see
what MS protegees were doing In the
rain. Rain and rules cast a gloom over
the Bowery. In front OF the Bowery
Y. NJ. c. A. about fifty men crouched
against the walls seeking shelter from
the wind. The big assembly hall was
closed and the unfortunates who had
no money were not permitted even to
stand Ill the shelter OF the doorway.
Ledoux passed out all that remained
OF his meal tickets and encouraged the
men with promises OF regular meals and
beds next week Tie hopes to have
operating on Tuesday. he said. and when
this IS accomplished will move on to
Buffalo and Detroit where ne says un-
employment is proportionately worse
than here.
Ledouxs efforts have succeeded In one
thing. at least. They have brought the
unemployment problem emphatically to
the attention of the city government.
Mayor Hylan wrote yesterday to Dennis
.. Sullivan, who asked that the
arnories be thrown open. that the mat
Ter would be taken up by the Mayors
Committee on Unemployment. OF which
Bird s. Coler is chairman.
Algernon Lee, Socialist alderman.
wrote to the Mayor protesting against
alleged police brutality In handling dis
orderly crowds OF unemployed In Bryant
Park and the Grandmother's Club,
which was put out OF the park Tuesday
night. will call In a body on Commits
sloner Enright to-day to complain OF
police treatment.
Bird S. Coler, Commissioner Of Public
Welfare. received the following tele-
gram from President Harding:
II am desirpus OF including your name
in the forthcoming conference on unem-
pioyment. to be held in Washington on
September 2s. The object of the confer
ence Is to inquire into the volume and
distribution OF unemployment, to advise
upon emergency measures that can be
properly taken by employers and local
authorities and to consider such meas
ures as would tend to give impulse to
the recovery OF business and commerce
TO normal
Commissioner coler accepted.