CONGRESSMAN GEORGE M. YOUNG
Congressman George M. Young SPEAKING to a large mass meeting at Bis-marck, North Dakota two years ago, the writer urged voters to support George M. Young for Congress, saying: "I have known George...
...The whole world has looked on...
...The struggle for disunion was begun by Robert Emmett...
...From that time to the present there has been a great parliamentary struggle, marked by splendid leadership, and sustained by the sacrifices of the Irish people in all parts of the world...
...Ulstermen, a century and a quarter ago, fought FOR the spirit and principle of home rule for Ireland...
...For the commission, Mr...
...This is the summing up of OUR interest— yours and mine—in the great national problem of Unemployment, by John D. Black in his article on page five, "The Jobless Man and the Manless Job...
...state, with a committee appointed by your legislature to consult about a grain inspection .bill...
...Such ability, courage, and fidelity merits the confidence and support of his constituents...
...This is the tremendous maladjustment that is written in the books of the social reformers as The Problem of Unemployment...
...That was in 1912...
...The Grattan Parliament was wrung from England in 1782, when England was under the stress of the American War of Independence...
...Here is a situation that challenges the best that is in us of constructive ability...
...He will make recommendations regarding their administration and supervision, and for the co-operation of federal, state and municipal agencies...
...There was, among others on that committee, a party by the name of— La MoUre, as I recall it...
...William M. Leiserson is in charge of this work...
...proved themselves so capable of self-gov-errimenl by the peaceable and inspiring manner of their striving...
...This is equivalent to more than two million men idle all of the year...
...He is an industrious, independent, faithful, public servant...
...Much of the information required in his work will be obtained at public hearings soon to begin...
...It is, however, more directly connected with the Home Rule Party movement started by Isaac Butt in 1874...
...But I agree if there are only 3,000 unemployed there are 3,000 too many out of jobs...
...Under heart-breaking odds the Irish people have met defeat after defeat...
...Congressman George M. Young SPEAKING to a large mass meeting at Bis-marck, North Dakota two years ago, the writer urged voters to support George M. Young for Congress, saying: "I have known George M. Young for many years...
...Arid their achievement in these early years of the present century, over the heads of the unyielding House of Lords, is deeply prophetic of gains to be made in the world movement toward democracy...
...Home Rule for Ireland FRIENDS of democracy, everywhere, rejoice that Home Rule for Ireland has at last been won...
...One of the most difficult and most terrible of all industrial conditions," remarks Harper's Weekly, "is the frequent unemployment that prevails in many trades...
...Query CUPPOSE we had in every state of this na-tion— 1. A public school system that really fitted Education into every-day living and experience...
...or enough to grow thirty thousand trainloads of wheat and corn each forty cars long...
...3. An adequate system of public labor exchanges...
...I recall distinctly the opinion I then, formed—that...
...His plan for public employment offices has been adopted by Governor Glynn, New York, and is embodied in bills now before the New York legislature...
...there was just one man on that committee who was really interested in a grain inspection law, and that man was George M. Young...
...enough to bring the Atlantic Ocean to Chicago through a thirty-foot Lakes-to-the-Gulf deep waterway...
...He was recently chosen by the United States Federal Relations Commission to handle this big problem along national lines...
...The Commission, made the following statement: "Under Mr...
...It was under Parnell that Gladstone was won to the cause, and twenty-eight years ago, in January, 1886, the first Home Rule bill was introduced in the House of Commons...
...Think it over...
...Religious emancipation and disestab-lishment were secured by Daniel O'Connell, but his great heart broke because of the failure of his ambition—a parliament in College Green...
...Then and Now IT WAS in 1800 that the last legislative body in Ireland — the Grattan Parliament — was abolished...
...He is secretary of the National Association of Public and Private Employment offices, formed last year to improve agencies and to build up a system of exchanges...
...Nearly six and a half million laborers looking for work, or loafing around waiting for work to begin, during from one to twelve months of the year—and Congress and our state legislatures driven to restricting the hours of labor for women and preventing the working of children in factories and stores, employers even urging that our contract labor laws be repealed so that they can get all the help they need, mine operators clamoring for more men for their mines, millions of dollars' worth of grain going to waste because the farmers can not get help to harvest it...
...Now that Ulster threatens to take up arms to prevent the establishment of an Irish parliament for all Ireland, it is worthy of note that the leadership in securing the Grattan Parliament of old came from the Presbyterians of Ulster...
...It must be accounted one of the great world victories for human liberty...
...I received them in the executive office, sat at my desk, and listened to what they had to say...
...Perhaps then he would have called for a title something like this: " A Master Craftsman Who is Injecting New Ideas into the Woodworking Industry of America...
...Every year since 1900 probably two million years of productive labor have been lost—enough to build seventy, dreadnaughte, thirty to cruise along the Atlantic Coast, thirty for the Pacific Coast, and ten more to dog the entrances to the Great Canal...
...Two million years of productive labor, the equivalent of thirty thousand large trainloads of corn and wheat, let slip through our hands— and millions of our people in actual want and distress...
...And in accordance with the attitude thus expressed, Commissioner Lynch vigorously supported the New York bill which Governor Glynn signed on April 7, establishing a bureau of unemployment within the state Department of Labor...
...It has been a century-long struggle...
...The Land League founded by Michael Davitt then followed and was led magnificently by Charles Stewart Parnell...
...Leiserson's administration in Wisconsin, the state free employment offices have made notable progress in furnishing accurate information and procuring proper distribution of labor...
...Says James M. Lynch, New York's Commissioner of Labor (who was president of the national Typographical Union before taking up his present work): "I don't believe there are 300,000 unemployed in New York City, and I doubt if there are 300,000 unemployed in the State...
...I am hoping that you will send him down to Congress to represent the people of this Congressional District.'' The voters of the Second District of North Dakota elected Young to Congress...
...He came into a new environment, faced new responsibilities, and had to deal with the gravest problems involved in national legislation...
...A Challenge To Society OF TWENTY-NINE MILLION wage-earners employed in 1900 nearly six and one-half million were idle an average of one-third of the year...
...Leiserson is conducting an investigation of interstate, state and municipal, public and private employment offices...
...This is the extent of the public interest in the matter...
...Wisconsin is leading the way ill bringing the manless job and the jobless man together—to their mutual advantage, and to the great benefit of the commonwealth...
...Read Mr...
...2. A comprehensive and thoroughly practical system of industrial and vocational education...
...What are we doing about it...
...Today at least half of them fight bit-terly AGAINST home rule for Ireland...
...Black's story—page five—to make a good beginning...
...but to push onward again with a steadfastness of purpose and a passion for self-rule that seemed only to flame more brightly under reverses...
...They provide that organized employees and organized labor shall be represented in the management of each employment office...
...This 'was accomplished through the corruption not only of its own members but of the press...
...In this United States, dedicated to self-government, there has ever been a feeling of warm kinship for the folk of Emerald Isle who strove so persistently for legislative liberty, and...
...He has made good as a member of the House of Representatives...
...The movement which has won success under JOhn E. Redmond is a continuation of these earlier struggles...
...The public interest dictates that labor shall find its best market and find it quick...
...Although the Home Rule bill passed May 25 does not satisfy the yearnings of Irishmen as expressed by Robert, Emmett that their country "shall take her place among the nations of the world," still it confers a large measure of self-government, and its achievement marks an epoch not only in the history of Ireland but in the history of the British Empire as well...
...Thus is manifested one of the fruits of the Commercialism which has the northern counties of Ireland at present in its grasp...
...When I was Governor of Wisconsin he came to Madison, the capitalof the...
...Is it not possible that the man in the picture on this page entitled "A Typical American Hobo," might have made an entirely different portrait...
Vol. 6 • June 1914 • No. 23
