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Domestic News
June 12, 1870
New Orleans Republican
New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana
What is this article about?
Sharpers around City Hall exploit city workers by buying their wages at half value amid fears of bankruptcy; proposal to impose business licenses on these brokers.
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A NUISANCE.
Within the past few years a new calling or profession has sprung up in the city, which, although extensively followed, seems to have escaped the observation of the tax gatherer. We allude to the horde of sharpers who constantly throng around the City Hall, haunting the different department offices and annoying the clerks and attaches. The business of these men is to lay in wait for the laborers and employes of the corporation and frighten them with tales of the city's bankruptcy and poverty, and then get them to sell their wages and claims at about half their value. While there may be no legal mode of preventing this outrageous practice, it might at least, like all other trades and professions, be made to contribute its share to the city's exchequer in the form of a regular business license, and we would therefore suggest that the Administrator of Finance be instructed to require each and all of these "brokers" to exhibit their license receipt before paying any order for wages, etc., which they may present.
Within the past few years a new calling or profession has sprung up in the city, which, although extensively followed, seems to have escaped the observation of the tax gatherer. We allude to the horde of sharpers who constantly throng around the City Hall, haunting the different department offices and annoying the clerks and attaches. The business of these men is to lay in wait for the laborers and employes of the corporation and frighten them with tales of the city's bankruptcy and poverty, and then get them to sell their wages and claims at about half their value. While there may be no legal mode of preventing this outrageous practice, it might at least, like all other trades and professions, be made to contribute its share to the city's exchequer in the form of a regular business license, and we would therefore suggest that the Administrator of Finance be instructed to require each and all of these "brokers" to exhibit their license receipt before paying any order for wages, etc., which they may present.
What sub-type of article is it?
Crime
Economic
What keywords are associated?
Sharpers
City Hall
Wages
Brokers
License
Where did it happen?
The City
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
The City
Event Date
Within The Past Few Years
Event Details
A horde of sharpers throng around the City Hall, haunting department offices and annoying clerks by frightening laborers and employees of the corporation with tales of the city's bankruptcy and poverty, then getting them to sell their wages and claims at about half their value. Suggestion to require these brokers to exhibit a business license receipt before paying any order for wages.