The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless ManAnderson, Nels
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The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man
Anderson, Nels
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions; Tramps
vii) Nightly shower bath required.
3. _The establishment of a Municipal Laundry and a
Municipal Bath House by the city of Chicago_: to be
operated in close affiliation with the Municipal Clearing
House.
4. _Utilization of existing facilities for industrial
training_: Co-operation with existing educational
institutions for the vocational training of boys and
youths and of the physically handicapped, mentally
defective, and industrially inadequate who are
unemployable but willing to work. (See “Program for
Future Action.”)
5. _Employment agencies_:
_a_) The extension of the service of the Illinois Free
Employment office.
_b_) The enforcement of the law relating to private
employment agencies: the requirement that sections
three (3), four (4), and five (5), of the law be posted
in a conspicuous place in each room of the agency;
and the return to the applicant of three-fifths of
the registration and other fees upon the failure of
applicant to accept position or upon his discharge for
cause.
_c_) The further study of private employment agencies
and of labor camps in order to provide the homeless man
with adequate protection against exploitation.
6. _Public health and housing_:
_a_) The further building of sanitary workingmen’s
hotels with low charge for accommodations.
_b_) The maintenance and raising of standards of
cheap hotels in Chicago through rigid inspection and
tightening of requirements.
_c_) Medical examination, inspection, and supervision
of men in flops, together with vaccination and
hospitalization of needy cases.
7. _Vagrancy Court_: the reorganization of the Vagrancy
Court for the hearing of cases of incorrigible vagrants
and beggars on the basis of the investigations of the
Clearing House.
8. _Protection of the boy_:
_a_) Prevention of aimless wandering through the
provision of wholesome and stimulating recreation,
through the extension of all activities for boys, and
through the further development of vocational education
and supervision. The Vocational Guidance Bureau of the
Board of Education should be removed to an area of the
city free from unwholesome contacts.
_b_) An educational campaign organized through the
Mid-West Boy’s Club Federation should be carried on
in all the boys’ organizations in Chicago showing the
danger of “flipping” trains and playing in railroad
yards. The National Safety Council has a great deal of
material which could be used in such a campaign.
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