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Show COMMISSION'S HELP SOUGHT BY SDLONS City Is Asked to Appropriate Appropri-ate $500 for Relief of Unemployed. Membors of the house of representatives representa-tives join in a petition filed with t'&e city commission yesterday by Emil b. Lun'l, aMiiii for the immediate appropriation appro-priation of $500 by the city for the relief of men and women who are suffering acute deprivation from lack of enipVav-ment enipVav-ment or means. It is set out that many men and women are sleeping on litre floors and are going hungry most of i he time in Salt Lake. The petition follows: fol-lows: We, the undersigned, hereby beseech be-seech your honorablo bodv to appropriate ap-propriate SoOO to be used iu aiding sonic of the many unfortunate men and women in tins city who are being be-ing compelled at the'preeut time to sleep on bare floors and to go hungry hun-gry on account of not Vtein able to secure employment. Your immediate imme-diate action will be greatly appreciated. appre-ciated. The signers of the petition are Eirtl S. Lluid;'L. R. Anderson, speaker of the lower house; Thomas P. Page. W. 3!. Redd, George I". Goodwin. Elizabeth A. Havward, and manv others. Representative. Lund appeared before be-fore the commission last night to urge action ou the petition. It developed from his remarks that the relief is sought for the men who recently formed an association of the unem-ploved unem-ploved and conducted demonstrations in "the wav of parades about the city. The petition was received and filed and Mr. Lund was told that th city had no authority to make an appropriation for such a purpose. II. J. Dixon, an employment man, who happened to be at the meetiug in connection con-nection with the jitney bus hearing, took pointed issue with Mr. Lund. lie declared that the idle men referred to by Lund were mostly hoboes and 1. W. W. members, who would not work any more than thev had to under any circumstances, cir-cumstances, and that to keep them was but to encourage them in their philosophy of as little work as possible. |