UNEMPLOYED IN NEW YORK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9053, 31 March 1908, Page 5

UNEMPLOYED IN NEW YORK.

A GREAT DEMONSTRATION. iiOMBS THROWN. Received March 30, 8.15 a.m. NEW YORK, March 29. During a great unemployed demonstration in Union Square, New York, on Saturday afternoon, an anarchist hurled a bomb, k'lling one person and mortally injuring himself. Mounted police rode down the mob, creating a panic. Twenty thousand persons, mostly women, carrying anarchist banners, and wearing red caps, assembled, despite an official refusal to permit them to enter Union Square, when 180 mounted police sought to disperse them. Selig Silverstein. a young Russian Jew, attempted to hurl a bomb into a group of twenty policemen. The fuse was short, a-d before the design could be carried out the bomb exploded, tearing off Silverstein's right arm, and killing a man named Beconian, believed to be an accomplice. ________ I EXTRAORDINARY PLOTS AGAINST FINANCIERS. Received March 30, 9.55' p.m. NEW YORK, March 30. The police have discovered in Siiverstein's house letters from Berkman, who is the husband of the anarchist Emma Goldman, containing details ot extraordinary plots against financiers. It was officially stated last month that over one million and a-quarter persons in New York City were in need of relief. Seeing that the total population of Greater New York was estimated in 1906 at no more than 4,113,043, and the population of New York City is something far less than that, it is evident that at the most conservative estimate one person in three is suffering from this almost unparalleled state of affairs. The prevailing acute destitution is generally attributed to the recent monetary crisis, which not only compelled employers to dismiss workers owing to the shor'ness of coin, but through the failures of numbsrless banks and general financial insecurity had, a paralyzing effect on industry throughout the whole country. This follows on the growth of an immense amount of chronic poverty in all the great cities of America. It is now widely recognised by students of social problems that the number of the "submerge*!" in New York is immense even as judged from a European standpoint; and several writers have ventured so far as to say that the poverty of New York under ordinary conditions is more appalling than that of London.