Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-05 | Page 12 | Unemployed Seek to Secure Funds

UNEMPLOYED SEEK TO SECURE FUNDS Miss Cora D. Harvey Declare Arrest for Vagrancy Violates Constitutional Consti-tutional Eights. Every citv In the 1'nltrd Stafn tliat at r-pts men for vagrancy loiatcs the -onsut uilonal rights of tho men, declared Miss Corn It. llai-vcy, ."pcrt-lnry of the ex- I ec ui! v,- conimltt- e of the Jnf crna Llona 1 j AssocIh lion of U lie m jib a ed. before t : ie mernb'.rM of the rounty rnmmis.ion Jcs- terday afternoon. Mixs llnrv-y was one of a commit tfp of Mrw-en which ai'pe.ared before the cutninlshmii asking help for the unemployed to thu extent tliat tlie coinly pay tho rent on o'liirters nbout to be opened up at Snulli West Temple Tem-ple street. The county la also asked to pay for n telephone, fuel, and give the men a chance to Hcciiro work. The commit com-mit tw- wati headr'd by Jiimes Kad I low. I Hiring the hea ring In tiie afternoon one ni''riibr of the committee declared that It wan the evident intention of th 'omml'-ion to delev tb mutter ftr long as It could and he urged that the un-t emiW".vcd visit the county couimUsloticrs In a body instead of fen. Hop a. commit t-e. The suggestion did not muet with a response from his co-workers. The committee com-mittee Mid thnt they believed that if th county would appropriate . n would tide them over until nuch time an the majority of the nu n coull get wnrk. The cc.mmlssioncrH expressed thmelves fav-orabio fav-orabio to fining anything in their power to render assistance-. Anslstant County Attorney Van Rim Informed the mernhcrH of the commission that under Hie law the a pprnpna t Ion asked fur could not b made. After dts- usslim the mutter for ovr nn hour", the -pi'-lloii wiiM referred t'l Commla.lfiner Stillman. tin- pauper clerk, the assistant county attorney und a commlltce nf throe from the unemployed. This commit tee will meet at 2 i'clnc UiIh afternoon In tho oflico of the county attorney.