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Show . MANY HUNGRY ON MS EVE One Hundred Thousand Men Out of Work in Pacific Coast Cities. WAVE OF CRIME ENSUES Measures of Relief Considered Great Calamity is Facing the People. San Francisco. Pec. 24 Christmas j eve finds one hundred thousand men j out of work in the principal cities of the Pacific coast. In commenting today to-day on the many robberies, burglaries and crimes of violence of the past fortnight, Captain Donc chief of 1 the detective bureau, estimated that there nre 20,000 unemployed In San Franclco. Hunger bad no conscience, he said, and the wave P' crime was bound to rise higher unless the city provided work Los Angelea reports 35,000 unemployed, unem-ployed, and Portland and Seattle account ac-count for the remainder Measures of relief have been presented tn the various state and municipal author Itles. Governor Johnson of California replied to a delegation of wovkinqmcn that each city must care for its own problems. Governor West f Oregon declined to call a special session of the legls latnre, nrguint that to do so would be to Invito a worse calamity than now confronts the people of the state A long double file of sturuy men, eoiiie smoking and chaffing, but most of them sombre and silent, marched down Market street In the rain todav , in mute protest against conditions Unemployed at Fresno. Fresno, Cal.. Dec. 24 travelling band of unemployed men numbering 200, now camped at an old brick kiln south of the town, was informed by the police and sheriff today that the city would refuse to furnish any additional ad-ditional food or clothing The men demand to be fed and declare they will not move on until after Christmas Christ-mas day Meanwhile the proprietor of the brick yard has notified the I sheriff that he will tolerate them no I longer Rain today added to the dls-1 v comforts of the camp. |