work to get along at the present
time without getting more men to
walk the street. We have thousands
here walking the streets every day
asking for food and money. I am not
against the immigrants coming, but
let Uncle Sam carefor what he has
here first. A Reader; -
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INDUSTRIAL BODY'S REPORT
WILL SHOW GREAT WRONGS
A first report of the U. S. Indus
trial Relations Commission will be
made soon, probably this week.
Members of the commission met last
week in the Transportation Building,
getting ready to O. K. the report.
The commission has heard in pub
lic session over 500 witnesses from all
classes tell what they think is wrong
with this country, why there is in
dustrial unrest, why strikes, boy
cotts, blacklists, violence, detectives,
efficiency systems and speed bosses.
George P. West, a San Francisco
newspaper man directing publicity,
said: "This first report will try to
give in a short and connected' style
the important points brough't out at
public hearings. Nobody has time to
read all the testimony taken, even if
it should be printed. But the public
will be interested to hear, for. in
stance, how many out of the total
number of employers called are in
favor of collective bargaining and
other features of labor unionism.
How to get a better deal for the
army of harvest hands that cross the
states from the berry country in the
east to the wheat fields on the north
and cotton fields in the south every
year will be discussed. A conference
is now being arranged of state offi
cials, farmers, bankers and labor of
ficials m the grain states of the Mis
souri valley to be held in Kansas City
in December. Secretaries Houston
and Wilson of the president's cabinet
have been asked to attend.
Two investigators traveled with
harvest hands and worked with them
this season. How these workingmen
must fight with railroads, with local j
police and with fanners' combines,
with professional tramps and hold-up
men, will be told. It is a rare and
husky individual who is able to bring
away from the harvest fields all that
he actually earns.
How towns in grain-growing states
advertise for 5,000 men when they
need only 500 will be told. William At
M. Leiserson, who is the commis-
sion's expert on the unemployment,
said:
"Workingmen see advertisements
and press dispatches announcing the
need of large numbers of men in va
rious districts. They leave their
jobs in eastern cities, under induce
ments of higher wages, and go to
larger towns in the grain belt. There
they are unable to get accurate in
formation as to where their services
are needed. Sometimes they find
the harvest is not td begin for two or
three weeks. Jn the meantime, there
is nothing for them to do except re
main idle in the towns and cities.1
"Others turn hobo and follow the
principal railroad lines, searching for
work. They run out of money, are
forced to live in cheap lodging houses
and are thrown in with professional
tramps, petty thieves and yeggmen.
"Communities then suffer from lar
ceny and disorder. And farmers off
the main lines of railways lack men
to get in the harvest while at the time
the labor market at other points is
glutted. It is to organize this situa
tion, to make quicker connections be
tween men and jobs, that the Kansas
City conference will be held."
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Here is a trick learned from an old
umbrella repairer. Instead of gluing
on the handle of an umbrella which v
is not wearing well try winding a
thread around the stick, and then
screw on the handle.
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Antonio Moreno has prospered so
well during his short stay with the
Vitagraph that he has been assigned
to lead with Edith Storey, heroine of
"The Christian."
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