Show THE labor CRISIS fon FOL FOLLOWING LOWINa closely af arter after tar the tilo financial crisis and as a natural sequence thereof has come como a labor crisis which means a scarcity of employment thousands after arter thousands perhaps hundreds bf thousands of operatives of both sexes fifty or sixty thousand in ili new yolk york alone are partially or wholly out of employment ill in tha philadelphia troy paterson IsTo newark wark pittsburg and many other eastern cities continued out of employment means privation sacrifice of home comforts suffering starvation to men women and children and worse the ad adoption optOn of repulsive and may maybe be debasing measures for obtains ing the very necess necessaries saries sarles of life already we hear of young girls unused to such a life lire finding themselves walking the streets of new york and offering 0 that which should be beyond all price for the purpose of securing the bread that perl reri peris peri beth heth to sustain themselves and ant perhaps others depending upon t hem them possibly parents or brothers or sisters unable to sustain themselves S yesterday too the dispatches men tinned the tho departure of another body of skit skilled lel iel operatives for europe this time timo froin from boston mass because they could biot lot employment in this country this is a state of things which demands serious attention it is pleasant to see intimations that manufacturing firms in the east will continue to run their establishments on as liberal time as they can without doing it at a positive loss to themselves this till s is 13 commendable and some of our exchanges earnestly recommend nil all employers public employers especially ally to furnish furni sli sit as much employment as is they reasonably can in ili order to mitigate the suffering BU bring which now appears certain in many families in diff marent different parts of the country during the winter the tiie new york gierald well says in this great republic no man or woman willing and able to work should want for bread true enough nor should those who are willing and unable to work want for bread continues tho the merald herald unless precautions are taken in 1 time this want will exist ill in thousands of cases and may become not merely a disgrace tut dut but a danger in addition to tho the timely exercise of private philanthropy that paper specially proposes that all public works city elty state and national which can cam give employment to numbers number bo be carried on upon 11 1 as large a scale as possible and refers for example to the grobel energy gy generosity and promptness irith with which i tho the wealthy classes in england canio came to the assistance of the needy in that country in the times umea of the cotton famine during the tho civil war in this country As jas thus en england by a timely and prudent display of philanthropy saved her self respect retained her skilled artisans for better times and prevented vented dany any of that thab wild appe appeal alto aito to mob force which is generated on e empty mity stomachs and our wealthy citizens cannot do better than act on this example this is a sensible way of or looking C upon the i situation As the financial crisis has not been so sev severely erdly feit felt here as in the eastern states neither is it to be expected that tho the labor crisis crigg will be still there may and very likely will be hereabout a scarcity of work and pay the coming winter and consequently some som e families may have the tile prospect of privation if not su frering suffering before them and with this probability in view would it not be a good thing for the bet ter off portion of our citizens not riot to think of shutting up their purses buttoning up their pockets and ceasing all improvements which give labor and sustenance to tile the working classes but bat to do all that they can without positive loss towards furnishing labor for those who are willing to work and pay for it when done so that there may he as little privation or suffering as possible in the cities of this territory we WO cogmond commend this subject to the favorable consideration of our more wealthy and influential ci citizens I 1 |