Show vets V ea Is of war T V are A re jobless survey by american legion shows desperate plight of men who went to front FIGHTING FOR EXISTENCE former service men battling harder now and under greater odds than they fought in the trenches in france india indianapolis n a poll s between and veterans cerans of the world war are anre out of employment employ iGent and struggling tor for existence according to a survey completed by the american legion tinny many of these men the survey discloses are fighting harder now and under greater odds perhaps than they fought in the trenches tren dies the suney was conducted through the 11 posts of the legion pennsylvania alone reported ex e v service men out of work the new york legion department estimated veterans jobless in tile the state and illinois and massachusetts reported respectively and lex ex service men out of work georgia was the only state that reported improvement in the unemployed situation unemployment not general enough to require aid from legion was the report from that stall iowa reported that the industries in that state were nere sh showing omIng signs bf f life although gh a serious condition this winter was anticipated situation Is De desperate besperat e the report from pennsylvania described conditions as deplorable and the state of washington advised ex service men not to go to that state until conditions improved unemployed war veterans were sald said to number but industrial conditions were reported as better than two months agog ago commenting on the situation which has come out of the business depression the american legion weekly says rays Pig figures ures alone however do not tell the plight of american unemployed veterans for the greater part of these jobless ex ifil ex x sailors are pot not only out ot of work but a are afe engaged at this mome moment nt in in a struggle 0 for o r existence with their backs to the wall of clr circumstances cum stances they are for the most part men w ho have been economically on the defens defensive he ever since onee they left their count rys service many are men who found their old jobs gone when they took oft off their uniforms and tio no other jobs to be had those who succeeded in discovering some work after being discharged from the army or navy found they were pitted in remorseless mor seless competition against men who had not been in the service many employers dealt with them by the rule of last hired hire first fired hard winter ahead if they were lucky enough to have savings from before tile the w war fir awaiting them when they were discharged those sa savings ings have long since disappeared they found themselves without funds early in the period of industrial du depression which sta set in while this country was getting back to a peacetime peace pence time holds basis workers who nho had been employed steadily at high wages during the or ar were able to coast into the depression period living on their savings but for many months unemployed aloyed ex service men h hae ie been perforce little more than industrial scavengers compelled to seok odds and ends of work desperately to meet their simplest necessities the more fortunate tiac bale been largely dependent upon relatives and kindly friends those lacking these have been roaming from city to city restlessly seeking work rork many of them hae bale wives ives and children fathers and mothers dependent upon them bliem for support now that business depression has become intensified and the ranks of the unemployed swelled by the addition of millions of men who had been holding jobs until a few months or even weeks ago tile the lot of the long unemployed veteran Is such that compassionate americans need not look to russia to hungary and the other stricken libations liati lulis ons ot of eurott 6 for or numan suffering to touch their heartstrings heart strings The plight of unemployed employed ua veterans Is 9 sex serious IOUs enough today but winter vinter Is just around tile the corner open air work will so soon on cease the liar harvests vests which have hav e provided ded temporary work for many all soon be gathered park benches and doorways will soon be untenable at night this Is the situation that faces facea the american legion and the american people today scarcely having finished fint shed the campaign to relieve tile the hardships of lie he physically disabled veterans of 0 the world war lar the american legion Is now realizing that it 1 faces another campaign of equal mag to save have its comrades aniio ho have become economic casualties |