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Act of October 3.1917. authorized March 28.1922 SINGLE COPIES. 10 CENTS 50 CENTS PER YEAR. IN ADVANCE VOL. XXII WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER. 1922 NO.1 WHO'S WORKING FOR THE RAILROADS? By HOWARD MINGOS In the New York Times, Nov. 19, 1922. HERE is a notable absence from New And the call went out for strike-breakers. York of the legions of homeless which They came a-running, these strike­ twelve months ago invaded the city breakers. Most of them came from the city T a hop, skip and a jump ahead of cold parks and the alleys, all sorts and degrees weather. At that time there were so many of the unskilled. Unskilled in honest labor, presumably homeless men seeking sanctuary. that is; for there are instances too numerous in and around New York that one could to mention where trainload after trainload hardly move about without having one dirty of recruits have been dumped into a railroad paw after another thrust in front of him town to have the' company officials discover for the small change which the average New that they harbored and paid a precious crew Yorker appears always· to have whenever a of thugs, gunmen, card sharks, second-story beggar slouches into view. Looking over the men and ex-bootleggers. city and the old familiar haunts of the erst­ Many of them were just resting up after while homeless, one reaches the conclusion a stretch in prison or avoiding contact with that they are not with us today in appre­ the metropolitan police. With them came the ciable numbers. Evidently, like last year's honest good-for-nothing-the bum. It was leaves, the wabblies, down-and-outers and the his golden opportunity. Easy money, every­ professionally unemployed have scattered. thing found and protection. Above all, pro­ They are now working for.the railroads. tection was what his gentle soul most craved When the thousands of skilled workers laid -three meals a day, a place to sleep and down their tools in the railway shops and protection. For his arch-enemy, work, he yards on July 1 they started one of the bit­ had no fear. Who ever heard tell of a strike­ terest, and possibly one of the most signifi­ breaker working? cant, strikes in our railroad history. If pres­ The bum who a year ago panhandled his ent indications may be accepted at anywhere way from park to park and into one jag near their face value, the public will soon after another, at the expense of the city's hear more of the strike, which has been gullibles, has for the last several months been languishing in the news of the day from a personage. Sought after and welcomed by sheer inertia. Here enter the hobo and the all the rival strike-breaking organizations, rest of his unwashed kind. They are becom­ fly-by-night detective agencies, fake indus­ ing prime factors in the transportation prob­ trial bureaus and upstart employment head­ lem, which at this writing is nothing if not quarters, he has been depended upon to help serious.