Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1916 — BREAD LINE TO BE ABOLISHED [ARTICLE]

BREAD LINE TO BE ABOLISHED

Salvation Army Is Convinced Men Composing It Arc Beggars. New York, March 27.—The Salvation Army's rarnous bread line in Cooper square will be abolished, it lias been announced, because the army is convinced that the men who compose it are beggars who do not wish to work. An officer of the army, accompanied by a civilian employe of the police department in charge of the bureau of unemployment, offered work at. wages ranging from £ I to $3 a day, to men in bread lines in all parts of the city, hut were unable to find one who would accept a job. They have applications from outside the city for more than 300 workers.

Investigations has disclosed that all the bread lines are composed virtually of the same nun who go from one to the other and pass the internals in public libraries, Charity officials are said to be convinced that no man in New York need bo out of employment if he is willing and able to work.