UNEMPLOYED IN AMERICA.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7648, 3 October 1893, Page 1

UNEMPLOYED IN AMERICA.

The secretary of the American J?edera< tiun of Labour estimates that 100,000 men were out of employment in New York on August Bth. and arrangements were being made for; a parade before the yearly labour celebration on September 4tb It will be a melancholy prelude to ihut gay affiir, and promoters of the parade of unemployed will be a peaceable army of supporters of families, who humbly aak their brother mar ; to give them leave of toil, but for which I here is, no opportunity, There an 7000 cloaktnakers out of work. Oi 9000 bakers 4000 are idle, showing s i greatly • { reduced consumption. Oi 120,000 "cigar ~ mikers 10;000 nre potM work on account of the decreased de* mand. It is estimated 50 per cent oi the Central Labour Federatian, com , posed of waiters, piano makers, clothing I mßkers, etc.-, are out of work. Mayoi Harrison, of Chicngo,]in a speech on th< Bth, said ib.it there were 200,000 people in Chicago unemployed and almos 1 destitute of money. If Congress does not : give us money we will have rioti that will {shake the, world over, .. Bj every railway reaching Chicago fron the West-there daily come hundreds belonging £to this army of unemployed If they continue to p.nir into the pit] as Western despatches indicate, in armiei of from 3,000 to 6,000, it may becomi a matter that will demttni either trans portion or action on the part of a com missary department. Work in connec tion with the World's Fair has come t< an end, and building in the city i trivial compared with the work inciden to the Fair. In .Denver. Colorado thousands are being fed daily at differen "missions" on beef soup plentifully seasoned with aromatic onions and othe vegetables Por* and beans and breat and water meals cost about 10c each Quietness is the rule with the hungr; masses. They take their seats ant patiently await their respective turns.