Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1914 — All a Mistake—Nix on Work. [ARTICLE]

All a Mistake—Nix on Work.

Recently the police in Chicago were called on to disperse an aggregation of about 500 men that styled itself "The Army of the Jobless” that made an assault upon the city hall clamouring for relief. The leader was one who styled himself “General” M. B. Martin. Saturday a job was offered him at ; which he could earn $1.75 per day—-the “General” declined. As # Hoon as the police heard of this action, a warrant was issued charging him with vagrancy. When search was made of his usual haunts to serve the warrant Martin was missing. A member of the "army” informed the city detectives who bad the warrant, that Martin had left for New York, "riding the cushions” and displaying a roll of bills that contained at least SSOO. Just like a whole lot more of ( "never-sweats” that keep clamouring about hard times and nothing to do. They simply run away from work.— *Montleello Journal.