Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1909 — GREAT ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED. [ARTICLE]

GREAT ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED.

New York Legislative Committee Has Compiled Startling Figures. New York, March 13.—With a view of presenting the facts as to the unemployed and needy in the city and State of New York, some startling figures, compiled by appointees of the Legislature, are published here. Frank Julian Warne, secretary of the New York State Immigration Commission, who has spent two years in a personal investigation, in a report filed at Albany gives these results: “One hundred and ten thousand men and women are unemployed and unable to secure w'ork in New York city. “Two thousand seven hundred men were discharged from well’s Island workhouse before their sentences expired to make way for others sent In. “Two hundred thousand men and women have been out of work for two years in New York State. “Eighty thousand members of labor organizations are reported unemployed, at the Department of Labor at Albany. “Forty thousand union men have been forced from the organization for lack of funds to pay dues. “Thirty-four million five hundred and forty-two thousand dollars represents the preponderance of withdrawals from 138 savings banks of New York State in 1908, according to Superintendent Clark Williams. “Nine hundred heads of families in New York unable to secure work, though able-bodied and willing, were supported by the Association for the Improvement of the Poor in 1908. In 1907 the number was nineteen. “Eight hundred and fifty honest, able men, unable to secure employment, were sent to the workhouse in three months by New York city 1 magistrates on their own requests.”