Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1914 — NOT MICH. NO, SIREE. [ARTICLE]

NOT MICH. NO, SIREE.

Gotham's Unemployed Will Neither Plant Potatoes nor Shovel Snow. New York. March 13. "Within a ! few hours after the free labor btt-l reau of the state department of agri- ■ culture closed for the day here and plans had been made to send jobless men to state farms, several hundred of? the unemployed gathered a: an open air meeting and! heard the efforts of Governor Glynn j to give them work denounced. “The Governor tells us there is work for us on the farms of the state,’’ said Joseph O’Carroll, a leader in the Industrial Workers of the World. “In reply I tell the Governor to go hoe the grounds himself. We want none of it. If there is any

decent work, paying a man’s wages, I and you are here to get that work, and we will grasp the opportunity. Shoveling snow and planting potatoes are not in our line.” After the meeting the men marched to the university settlement and sandwiches and co."’ ■ "■’ven them. They were allowed to sleep on the floors tor the night. ,