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Show "MILLIONAIRE HOBO" SPEAKS 10 IE UNEMPLOYED Salt Lake. Feb 1 Salt Lake now has a branch of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association of the Migratory Workers of the World The organization was formed yesterday yester-day afternoon at Labor temple under the guiding hand of James Eads How of St. Louis, an officer of the international inter-national organization, also known as the "Millionaire Hobo. ' At the meeting yesterday thirty-three thirty-three members were enrolled Another An-other meeting will be held today at 5 p. m at which the organization will be completed. All unemployed are Invited In-vited to attend. The organization is now going to work for a permanent home and furnishings, where a man can wash up and obtain a bed upon coming into town. It will also send a delegate to the international convention conven-tion to be held in San Francisco February 16 to 23. Mass Meeting Planned. In addition. It was decided to call a meeting or conference of ail labor, church and civic organizations interested inter-ested in the problem of unemployment, unemploy-ment, to meet at the Labor temple next Sunday at 3 p. m. The stato legislature committee on labor will also be invited A committee, con slating of H. J. Plummer, Georg Childs and J. Dunn, were appointed to Invite these organizations and to advertise ad-vertise the matter. At the meeting yesterday Jamw Eads How and Cora D. Harvey of St. Loots and Kansas City, Mo., respectively, re-spectively, were the principal spoilt 3rs. Albert Prajbner and Carl Lind-1 fno berg of Denver also spoke. All the delegates to the convention at San Francisco Philip Bruber presided at yesterday's meeting. Mr. How is a graduate of the Physicians and Surgeons college of St Louis. He is also the grandson of Captain James B Eads, who built, the Eads bridge at St. Louis He has spent thousands of dollars In the interest of intinerant and casual workers otherwise know n as "hoboes" and "tramps," whom he believes are the result of an illogical Industrial system. His speech ran as follows "Unemployment concerns every man. woman and child in the country, coun-try, because at present 40 per cent of the skilled labor of the country is out of work. Not only working-men, working-men, but small business men are 'down and out The pathetic part of it is that some of these people in business are worse off than we "hoboes." We, at least, are not In debt. Everyone is excited about the problem, but no one knows what the other is going to do about It. We. of the International Brotherhood Welfare Wel-fare association are going to organize the movement nationally and then put it directly up to Uncle Sam. "We want to found a place in every ev-ery city where a man coming into town can go and wash up, get a meal and a bed. and then be informed of any work in town. We are going to do this through the brotherhood. It is harder work to find a job now than It is to do the work when a fellow gets it. After Dr. How, Cora D Harvey spoke along the same line. In addition, addi-tion, she said 'I stopped off to see you men they term 'tramps" and 'hoboes.' I have been wondering how long you men who are out of work and receive so little when working how long you will stand the conditions that are forced upon you simply because you have not the opportunities that be-1 long to you. The world is full of raw materials that make for comforts and also the labor to make them useful. use-ful. Yet you do not receive the benefits bene-fits of these things, because you do not use your minds. The men who have monopolized the mean6 of wealth have used their minds have schemed to deprive you of the things that are yours to use for themselves None of us is hankering for work. We desire the useful things of life, but it is a law of nature that we must work for them. If these eight millions mil-lions of unemployed organized they could get the things they want. Less than this number elected Wilson president pres-ident of the United StateB.' |
