Show APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY A Committee of New Yorks Unemployed Formulates an Address NEW YORK Aug 21The committees appointed Sunday at a meeting to organize organ-ize a labor conference today formulated an address to the people of the United States declaring that 100000 men women and children were nearing the verge of starvation in this rich metropolis of these free United States and hundreds of thousands of others are within a short distance of want and its attendant suffering suf-fering misery and crime It calls on the New York aldermen to convene in special session and devise ways and means for the employment of the unemployed directly and calls upon all to contribute funds for the unemployed unem-ployed who seek work in vain It charges that those who control the industries and finances of the United States are responsible for labor and we demand of them immediate relief for the victims of a system inherited from the ages of wrong with which the poor have been oppressed |