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Show I UNEMPLOYED IN j RAILROAD YARDS I Fifteen Hundred Awaiting t . Transportation East Over Southern Pacific. THEY REFUSE TO WORK Governor Johnson Has No f Sympathy for Men Who I Will Not Work. . Sacramento. Cal., March 7 Fifteen k- hundred members of two armies - of f unemployed "General" Kclley's force ' and a seceding faction were camped K Jn the Southern Pacific yards awaiting an answer from the Sacramento offi- H cials to their demand for food and 4' transportation to continue the journey I toward Washington. An heavy cordon of police was thrown around the camping grounds If to keep the marchers from scattering : f throughout the city and to keep peace between the two factions. The de-; de-; sertion or about 100- men from the ; Kelly army to that of the opposition a has almost equalised the strength of " the two Jactlons and caused consider j able bitterness. J ..viii.uiug that they did not want work and would not accept it If of- leied to them, the executive commlt- : tee of the anti-Kelley faction of the ! unemployed drew a sharp rebuke from Governor Hiram W. Johnson, to J ' whom they appeafed for help. If The governor first offered the three 3 committeemen work, and when they ' declined, he said: "Yov the men who want work J i have the greatest oyinpathy, and I am willing to do everything I can to help ; (hem. For the men who won't work, which, I understand, iB the . principle ; with the Industrial Workers of tho World, 1 have no sympathy. ; "You all hnvo admitted that you have noL been seeking work. You have refused the positions which i ottered you this very day. You say (hat the majority of your army will not work until they have completed their journey to Washington. "Therefore, you do not present an unemployed problem. What you are presenting is a particular propaganda and asking the state to assist you ? in spreading-this propaganda.. . Thosn t ',. are. not the actions . of unemployed inen." The govornor recognized in James ,..McCamoron, one of the committee, - a maa who had begged, from the governor gov-ernor twice in San Franclsto. Mc-Cameron Mc-Cameron admitted to the governor that he had told him a falsehood to obtain money. |