People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — What Heroines of the 100 Men? [ARTICLE]

What Heroines of the 100 Men?

In a few days the enormous coal dumper along the Nypano railway trestle, the Columbus street bridge, will be ready for operation. It is a recent invention, and the only one now in use is located at Ashtabula, it weighs several tons, and by picking up a car loaded with coal and dumping the fuel into a boat. In the river, it does away with the employment of nearly KID men.— Cleveland Press. "Does away with the employment of a hundred men" does it? But what does it do with the men? What does it do with their wives? What does it do with their children? It they go to the next town in search of work, they find that another machine lias just dispensed with the employment of a hundred other men. If they start, through the country In search of work, they find thousands of men ahead of them. Finally their rents are unpaid, their families are turned out on the highways to beg. steal or starve. If they beg they are sent to prison to work for nothing. If they steal they are imprisoned for life. If they do neither they starve to death. What is to become of the hundred men and their wives and children? That is the great problem of to-day.