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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1907)
JANUARY TAT 1 L lfl rr sew. Help 18 J anted in. Canada ns well United States. T ypes of Hindoos wvi'frni xrona sia to worK on the .racinc s tracks Help is wanted 'to buiW 6ted ftkyscrapers. Photograph of a on- sfrucfion ganff at work 2tX) feet: at)QTe the jjoiind in v YorK. THIS presrnt yotuhtul century is the llvtst the world has known, and Its neventli yer Is srolnft to be itn most latei-rstlntr ono. 90 tr. Tln ia eiMcially tme or the united States, the busiest land in the world- Wut while the Interest In ,h . oountrles centers nmlnlv I troubles, foreign and tostlc. herd the vO)lf Interest In conncn traced upon the affair eace and Induntrv. lXu.rrli.s- the fading cJouds that stiado tho l'aolrto fcf6 its tm wash th eastrrn f 'ar-away Janan. t-hrm i. mntr- for the American people to worrv ShiMlt a nvt tlmt ( 1. . w-. ...u wmV i3 nuoiu anu ilOtV 10 gCt Ihe workers to lo tho work th at la wait- "K for them to do. -AJI Asia, it in a ferment. Even Oliina wa Persia are talking about constitution. a covernme ! on m. col Ru.sia, torn and bleeding and uncertain ft 4Vs w.c inuiiun. is iaiiins into a worse . " or anarchy uan ever. ,t " "r m u the aillat or the elec- wn oruorta ior a now Rcictwtag to taHe tne plac of the one dissolved by th. " 1 1 wouldn't vote money w. . 7 on ma pet African colo- lrnc. ith. 1 1 In the throng or her mrunls Vatican. . Cr.-v.r 5ht up over the quarrel between the Lorun and . Commons SanJ wondering Whether the uneasiness m India will be UcB" h,- the general Aal- wic frrmcnt, But In America "Hefp W.ntsd- Is the """"'",',lm'rr cry. K,l to dant ana h.r vat such food crots as hi&vn . , now in any otHcManlHfilo to aiB orce end the coal to smelt them with. Mel . ,ay railroad, to oarr,- the orop. Jter they ere Harvested; the ores and the coal liter .toy tvre dug. aftd the Iron and th eoppor and the lead -after they are malted. Help to tuJld homee ana sky. ertiptra; churcHei ana Ho-pltule; art gal Uries and universities and museums Help to bore tunnels and Jia canals. Hlp to . www m. every sort thai n-tr done under th. Bun; umiied and unskilled and more of It than was ever employed by any ono nation alnca the world baian. All this mBV nt v.. ' " flawed upon you, but it's true as gospel,, every word. Uncle Sam may no lontrer t rich enough In land "to give us nil a rm." but there aurely Is work enough lierc to give ui ftU tt JoD-lt weU take what w cn ret- And moro of us have Jobs today than ever before since there Was an Undo Sam. Help vantca by the Railroads, The railroads have mora freight to miry than their cars will hold. They cairt (fct tlie cars they have over the rails fast enough ana the carbulldew are two years behind the orders for new ones. Tho 12,000.000 or 14.000.ot-bale cotton crop, the ToO.W.wo bushel wheat crop, the a.O00.000.0rt00 bushel corn crop, the BOO.O0O.OOO bushel potato crop, added to the coal and iron and lumber, tho monufac- turcd products and the general merchan dise that hag to be hauled up und down the country has swamped tho roads com- as the now rpinpr Cahadua 35 'V 'L. - "a, . pletoly. They have simply Kot to lay thouBttndH ot miles or ntw tracKage or the country's business will be swamped. was nearly swamped all the 1-. 11. siilte the lierolc efforts which have been Win on the mi few nn to get trucks cars ana engines enough Into the -"-rvl.-o ro handle it e-3ciuaavt:nly. Peonies ro rreesing in some parta or the Weht for lacK of roal, wlilcli the roads can t Ret to them and the Interstate Commerce (.."omuilSMion la now trying- to find out the real reasons fov f li situation it has been the thousands of unskilled labmer:! needed by tha railroads to ex- tend their mUeaxe and to keep their trat-lc I n order no rot-arc rlnr r .-.a. . thousands employed on New York's barp canal unit the really vast muniel- pal Improvrmentfi going on In nearly very olty in the land, that have made I poxnlhle to absorb the iinnr.rvrian.a current ot ImmiRratlon, It was tlie great cry for hcln fraw lh railroads that made It a physical Impos sibility for uncounted ' ...... ..... Bast, South and W est, to harvest all their com and cotton, their wheat and pota- ituta nay last -'alI. The tlg-ht money trltet Is laraely due to the enormous ms Of currenrv nhlh thA have had to use, and are still using, to pay wages with, thou-rh certain mr in all street have contributed to the situ ion, ana eo has thn nci .... i. money "to move tho Crops." But WithOUt the current vast manipulators would have had little chance ' " riwe as liiey Have. . The Cauaaian rttllrondR hav. .An hard put to It for heln AD thnaa In ihs United States. The Canadian Pad ft a has found It so difficult to set Kraders. track laborers and other unskilled "help" that i ims lawn w miporune H ndoos nnt coolies, but men of better rraa. a . news of this move has reached the fnl ted States, though a Darairanh am the rounds not long- ago telllne of tho death from cold of some of these sons of India' sunn- clime, who had i..n 4 ,,d V a AiV A . . v '.v.y.'.v.y.v, ,, i t ir1 a? i-v .ffiw 5"H w aT ' ..Tel T Hrlp is wantVd to yrrale the new railroads. From a -photograph taken In DeccwW. ti-iiii.portwl to ?anada-s bleak shores. I .. no complete ngures by me, Out the nrst shipment of Hind 56S to VanonuvAr' to be 'Zr woric on the railroad num- 300 or 00 Man- -,t vm leen In some ort or Indian mtlltarv 'Tice, cnaaa'B exclusion m were not enforced BO rigorously aralnst the nnt -ast Indians as they AiiKTicaas imported Into b ds on acr lilglier srado of railroad work: tne m than 10 per cent of the Hlhdoo were turned back, and they were rejected be. r'T. r InsulTIclent physique. or poor health not because of the contract labor laws, An official of the Canadian Pacific i.,r.-l t0,'d "'' th" ther day that these men are slender, tall, without fat and good worKerf, although, icKln somQ what In stamina as compared with white men. They aet S1.S5 a day. Their loda 1B, In bunk cara or in ehaheks built bv tne railroad, ls thrown In. They have to buy their own food, which Is cooked by their own cooks. There are Brahmins Sikhs and Mohammedan among them. Compared wltn what they can earn In India, their pay s enormous. The death, irom tne Canadian cold, he said had arm . . majniy Dy tne lack of clothing. Thits. he added. in ns. the fault of the railroad company, however; it nas Been Its policy to furnish them with heavy, warm clothing- immediately on their landing: at Vancouver, tout not being accustomed to the cumbrous garb necessary In this climate, many refuse to wear It. to their own undoing. Women Workers Scarce, Too. ' .- ' Tho oldest employment "tor in Amer- lea Is about the scarcity of women serv ants. Today there la arr unprecedented sliortage of women workers of every Tnere ie a certain concern o oated tn. one of the larger cities whose Whfle vOther Nation Uncte Sam's Greatest Difficulty Necessary- Some Official the Wage Earners of the United Prosperity r n - r r .1 it i . it ,i & .p wib i-tyji hi r i in i iir,.f - m ii a h. 4 H r - t"-fc JT'H - -"-S" i manager recently found this out to hts great inconvenience. Xate every Fall he needs to add some ISO women to trio clerical force, their du ties being mainly to address envelopes for the mailing1 of circular.. In past yean nL.hafl been able to get all the address wrfte"M lred by Inncrtlna; a four-line advertisement one time In a single local newspaper, Th nrj)t rjRV rtcr tllQ llj- SSr'0"?' the "ad" there would be from 30O to BOO applleants. Inside of three days 'hf extra. U.t would be satisfactorily fined. This season the advertisement. Identical In wording with the advertise. ment used every year for the last decade was Inserted. How many replies do you suppose the firm received? Six. Next flay the advertisement was in- serted in three or four other papers. The eroes result from all the advertisements was 31 applicants. It took ten days to ft" the ejtra list, na all sorte ot means h&A to be employed ances of the regula Importuned to come 1 ters had to be wrltt Women acouaint. ances of the reaular clerks had to be Importuned to come In and help out. Lt- tere fcaa to be written, to friemle In the suburbs, and It was with the greatest dlf- f Iculty that the extra work was got out at all. Another unprecedented feature of the situation was tho inefficiency of the applicants. Not more than half a dozen of the 31 vertlsements cot the head of the on its envelopes, 31 who answered the ad- writo a hand that willing to soe At first he thought this meant deter ioration. Later he concluded that most of the competent workers of the class he. wished to draw from were already employed regularly, and that none who wanted work were left earcent those could not da It satisfactorily - wnoiner reason; undoubtedly,- Is that In thesa day, of. work. at good wages for very man who Is able and willing: to do It. many men . are unwilling- to allow wives, slaters and daughters to work for themselves.' This is often as true of he man who works for day's wages as s of any other man. and today. In Face is to Get Men to Do the i-iif on Sa vines . ' " LVNW'V Slie .-JtY Figures XXelp ia wanted to mine tlie eoatf. Minora leaving a shaft in. the an thracite region. ii r', rt TT .3r every great city of the country, as every- thousands of iiuuaewives their own housework. their own scrubbing ana their own. wash Ins. because the women they used to employ will not work. The -"men folk" are dolna so well that they will not have It, There are probably U barber shops In ew York whose outfit includes a boot- s chair, where the patrons can no longer Bt their shoes ahlned. Ask the 'boss of such a shop why he hai no one to attend to the bootblack's chair, and J"" will say: -All the boys sot steady Jobba. Won't shlna shoes no more." Highest Wages, Great Savings. It is because there Isn't help enough to go round, despite the million or more Im migrants of 1906, that waa-eu are higher here than anywhere else, or ever, before- so hig-h that In some American cities rteiclayre earn more mone- than profes sors in some foreign universities; that the wages of tho men who put up tho steel frames of skyscrapers are larger than the salaries of government department heads in some European kingdoms. Do you doubt this? There are skilled structural Iron men who earn J10 a day at least 200 days In the year, which counts up SS-M more than the siago salary of one of Den. mark's most valued department chiefs. There are plenty f skilled workmen In the Plttsbura; steel mills who are much better paid than, the members of the Swedish "academies" which awarded the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt last December. It Is these high wages that enable the ' States Since the Era of WJMZ w Mm tTTT lifllllli Heir aleA io man id is wanted to man ries From a recent photograplt t Gloucester. Mass. American with calloused hands and blackened finger nails to send his son to college. Consequently more professional men herd than anywhere else are spring. ing from shoemakers and stonemasons and tne like If the Hons are ashamed of this to much the worse for them and, of course, It's the h!&h wages, lately, that make the high prices. Not altogether. though: the high prlees are partly due to the American workman' desire to eat as good food aa that which goes upon the rich man's table. If tho buy ate. worktngman didn't continue to pits of tne rise, do you suppose t would sell In INew Torlt . at from 20 cents to Jj cents a pound an nox, no matter what the beef trust did? Would eggs he 63 cents a docen. as thev were in New York: in mid-December, and higher, at they have teen since? You may not fully comprehend the in crease that has taken place In wages In this country since the low water mark, of a few years ago. Nobody does, In fact. You could get some Idea by studying "Qulletln 6R." Issued by the Department of Labor, but Mr. H. C. Watson of New YorU, a member of tho Civic Federation, who has given the subject mdeh atten tion, puta the case vivld-ly- when be says: "When the army of the unemployed was greatest a prominent labor leader estimated It at 3,000,000. Practically all the men making? up this vast number are now at work. To ii;t at the true advance V?, ! "4 111 you must 'cure tn their wae... i ? '.V';": ero.". fm nothlnar to rrom s- to 3 a day. Prices have font up. but tney are etui lower than they were In 1S80. and really the purchasing- power of the workers has Krown much faster than prices have advanced." There are plenty to say, when they talK about the American workln.man's high llvlna. when they compare his custom or VV" m'-"t every day In the year, bis ood clothes and hts clears with the cheaper food, the poorer clothes and the pipe that must content his European brother. that the American worker Is wasteful and extravagant. Well, perhaps; but have you looked into the savings banks' figures lately? . Nt. to dive deeply Into statistics here, doesn t It strike you that the American wommjman is aotny pretty well, in eplte of the high prices wiien you under stand, as Mr. Watson pointed out to rue. that in the past ten years the number of savings bank, depositors here has grown frohi- K.'0eSL494 to iOK.lM. or about fiO per cent? And that. In the same time, the SiS"ta Increased In amount from Sl.907,156,277 to S3. 482,137,198, or about SO per cent? This means, counting five to the family, that about half the families Nor Is this all; the savings invested by 1.600.000 Individual in the building and 1" associations count up more than SO0O.000.00O. It la all right to admire the great savings of the French, accumulated by dint of economy and self-denial that (Ooncludcil on ?aa SI.)
