The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-26
ON THE BOWERY
By DANIEL F. O'BRIEN.

The Bowery pretty much alive with the presence of
unemployed men who hail from the North South, and
West in search of the elusive animal known Jobs.
The job in this epoch of unemployment is the all alb
sorbing topic everything else sinks into nsgnficance
long de of it, for the potential well the actual
ooNerytes less hungry, less rag
ged, less penniess, and the jobs shat usually
appeared the previous to this of 1927 have
become fewer and fewer until the job question has be-
come very serious question in the minds of hundreds
of thousands who Wend their foron way upon its side
walks day and night So true is this that the mission
floors crowded nightly with seeking food and
shelter Also the benevolent" Y NJ c. A. (young mems
character assassnaor) have thrown it's doors open
the boys of the Bowery (The Y. NJ c. A. speciazes in
boys For the first time in many years this Dump To-
Gated at Third street and the Bowery, is doing chart
table piece of work. Yet must not forget that it is
like the Salvation Army of the most Vulnerable
ploters of the down-and-outers who unacquanted
with its intense greed for profits.
The Bowery so far this is bad for all.
Some of the employment sharks forced to close their
DOORS also the lighthouses only about half fulthe
Bowerytes taking to the various parks with empty
pockets in search of places to sleep.
Parks very useful in the vicinity of the Bowery,
considering the fact that they act harbors for the
harboress, who possess not the price of lousy flop
Prices range from twenty-five cents up
All kinds of men, boys women and girls promenade
along the Bowery The university graduate rubs Shout
ders with coegian the coegian with the public schooer
the public schooler with the tratepoverty puts all
into category the Bowery, all classified thusy
as "bums"
daring type of mgrator e. they follow railroad la
boring work less they know what it is toll
ten hours day with picks and shovels-under blazing
sunfor the magnificent of threethirty thirty
three cents hour They also know what it means
eat garbage handed to them by the stomach robbers
who operate the commissary departments. They know
what to have to wait days. and sometimes weeks
TO the pary they aborously toed and sweated
for Words adequate express the abuse the
Gandydancers of the Bowery up against when they
ship out to the railroad camps and that is not ALL They
taxed by the private employment agencies from three
to five dollars for the devastating privilege of being al
lowed to be exploited robbed and gypped into of
bankruptcy.
The Bowery also has its hash joints and bootlegging
emporums, where its victims eat unfit foods and drink
poisonous liquors great number of the die pre-
mature deaths from the effects of both floods" and
drinks consumed in such places
There has been any serious attempt at organ
zng the the Bowery, organized labor not con-
sdering it worth while Yet recruits for strike breaking
agencies largely gathered from there in times
strikes owing to the fact that organized labor
hand outlaws them from the unions, and the other
hand as human beings they hungry
The Bowery is the outstanding spectacle through
which gauge the progress of modern civilization
it's rotenness it's greed it's indifference abominable
conditions such they exist.
| The Bowery like other Boweries, may some day be
improved but it will be by the Bowerytes themselves
and not by the commercial brgands and fake theological
peddlers, who fat upon men. women and children.