Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1914 — Says Work is Scarce and Suffering Intense in Hammond. [ARTICLE]

Says Work is Scarce and Suffering Intense in Hammond.

Herbert Zea, who has been employed in Hammond for several years, and for a long time at the steel car works, arrived home Tuesday and has secured work here with W. S. Richards,- the painter. Herb says that all the painters in the car shops were laid off and that there are many men out of work in Hammond -and that begging and stealing is common. Distress is certain to ensue during the winter...