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Show 7 " 1! "Why Are We Jobless? Why Poor? Think About Us!" i ' -4- ' .- - -- -- - 1 in 2d UK KI.KV ) New York. Jan. 16. The 4.0oo Jobless Job-less nun with whom Urban .1. tilou., I collegian .mil one-time dlpldraat, win I inarch 10 Waihington, ha e adopted "L4ft Up Your Heart" as their greeting, greet-ing, and "JUovlng Service" as their motto and watchword Two hundred of them are quartered in the baaemenl f 81 Mark's chapel here. They c-nl! themselves The 'Shorn Lambs of Labor." "The first thlnj? I do." says the plc-tureeqUC plc-tureeqUC and handsome LetfoUX is ito feed a man. Then 1 Shelter hun Then I gay to him. "Don't kick." "I ii' ver solVed a problem yet by Kettinfc mad oyer it. "We all know somtthlng's wrong when S.ti00000 men In this Kicat luml i are unemployed. But we can't change the system except In one way by in-fluenctng in-fluenctng public opinion. STjOW lit I si RE, , " The public has little sympath) for Lthe wild-eyed tongue-lasher set ydurl own house in Order, I tell my brother here, before you tackle the other fei-; low's, it may i ioi. but it's sure-" Ijedoux will not pertnlt himself to be' railed the leader of the jobless army si. on to march upon Washington as a protect ac.'inst o vernnnntal oxirava-' Ranee, "I am not their leader." he Insists. I am their brothel and servant. I am trying to help them In u .situation to which i have devoted many years' J study, THINK VBOUT I Si' "Wt shall enlist people of all lassi b in our support. We are going to use every means available to persuade Washington to open up new ways and; means We need help: First. WORK; sec-1 ond. GLl H I l BB But mOKt ! all we Ik ; people to BBBBBBBBBSBBBBBBBSBSSwik. Su HasaasaaeaVaBaawRL i, " " -jyTT?Tif!w7l!t" Vt. l RB N l LEDOl think aboul u win w i RI 1,1 sv W HY I Rl Pt IOR M Mi K VXD in l l n HIM "For we believe thinking men nuisl see in ns a power to iw turned tp tin-economic tin-economic uimmI ol the country."' I Brother Ledoujt is a French Canadian; Cana-dian; a big man in corduroys, broad, boots, flannel shirt and black bow tie. I WORKS M STUDIES, Ills parents were mill hands and he, worked his wav through college, through many books, philosophies,' languages. He has been in every part of the world and W8X t'nited States consul lt fragile, Bordeaux and elsewhere. Ten years ago, having provided for I IS wife, son and two daughters. Le-doux Le-doux decided to "chuck' self-interest mil make himsell useful to hli fcllOW- men- He lectured, became a war worker,! bread-line benefactor and organizer of1 the unemployed. He liv es in u little room on the East Side. The brother of the "Lambs ' Is keen ' on baths. Everyone of bis flock of 20u now housed in St. Mark's chapel has to go through an elaborate bathing and fumlgatllng cererdpny before he-1 coming eligible to the ranks. ( LEAN 13? G M BATHING The Shorn Lunb9." are busy at 'present getting ihelr quarters In shape scrubbing the walls, arranging the kitchens hnd repairing the stage upon which they will give a series of enter-lalnments enter-lalnments programed With their own talent It was only 10 days ago that the i church basement was commandeered "I figured," any Ledoux, "that a church should .mi on the precept I w as a stranger, and ye took me in 1 so I lettered o s-.gn tilth those words on lit, tacked it to the basement door of ih" chapel, collected 200 men from my bread line and announced to the pastor t bat we bud come. j He 1M the Sikh slav -and ns. too. We're getting fed and warmed and . lot b. d ind cheered and read) for i Washington." |