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AND A LIVING 



unemployed alone at 15,000; in Chicago 75,000, 

 while here in New York it was reported that 

 90,000 members of organized labor were without 

 jobs and that there were 30,000 vagrants. 



WAITING FOR JOBS THAT DO NOT COME. 



At the time the mercury was at its lowest, I 

 happened to pass along Union Square early in 

 the morning, plowing my way through several 

 inches of snow, which had fallen the night be- 

 fore. I noticed on one corner a group of four 

 poorly-clad men, hands stuffed deep into pock- 

 ets, while they shivered and shivered, nose, 

 cheeks and lips blue and purple from the cold. 

 From what I could see they were trying to 

 secure work at shoveling snow. Three hours 

 later, returning down-town, I passed the same 

 group still waiting for the " job." 



"THE BREAD LINE" AND OTHER LINES. 



The old bread line at midnight in New York 

 is a favorite topic of the writer on sociological 

 subjects, but such strings of workless and 

 starved beings were to be seen everywhere. I 

 saw a new kind of a line after the big snow- 



