Evening star. [volume], May 10, 1935, Page A-16, Image 16

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HOPKINS UPBRAIDS
RELIEF PLAN FOES
Predicts New, Work Pro
gram Will Give Jobs to
3,500,000.
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addressee of these pfople are on the
records of the relief offices of the ;
towns, cities and counties all over the i
country.
It is based on careful fact-gathering
and study. <
We know how many people are on :
relief, who they are, what kind of
work they can do, as well as how i
many can't do any kind of work.
80 Per Cent Can Work.
We know that 80 per cent of the
families on relief have at least one 1
member who is able to earn a living ,
for that family. i
We know' that 13 per cent of alt 1
these workers on relief in the cities i
used to be employed in the building
and construction industries: 20 per
cent of them used to be employed in
personal and domestic service, and ;
so on.
All this information is in our
hands. We know, not only what in
dustry or business they used to be in,
but the kind of a job they had,
whether they kept books or operated
machines or cleaned up the place at
night.
When we talk about taking three
and a half million people off the
relief rolls, we are talking about the
peak of this program. The number
of people on relief has varied from
month to month and season to season. !
More have been on relief in the |
Winter and fewer in the Summer, j
But it averages out so that when we
have three and a half million people
at work under the new program, the |
Federal Government will, in fact, be !
out of the relief business, because
virtuallv every family with an em
ployable person will be supported by
their earnings.
What about the other 20 per cent of
the families, those who have no em
ployable member? It is clear that
they are not unemployment cases.
In some of these families all the
members are too old to work. In
others, all the adults are so physically
handicapped by injuries or disease ]
that work is out of the question. In !
many families the only potential work
ers are women with children that
need them at home.
The various methods under the
program of social security that is
rapidly taking shape will care for
them.
The States and communities are
now putting up a great deal of public
money to cover these needs, and as
the Federal Works Relief Program
takes the workers off the relief rolls, it
will, at the same time shift its spend
ing to work and away from relief
for the unemployable.
Kinds of Projects.
Now, I want to say something about
the nature of the projects. We have
three and a half million people ca
pable of doing nearly every kind of
work there is. They are not evenly
distributed all over the country. Ob
viously, the kinds of projects that will1
be done in a given locality will be the
kinds that match the work capacities
of the local people.
We have found out that there is
plenty of public work that ran and J
should be done, and we are setting out, j
not only to provide work for the needy j
unemployed, but to do good, sub-1
itantial, useful projects. They will add
to the useful structures and facilities
of the Nation everywhere. They will
stand as lasting monuments to the
earnest labor of the workers.
Their utility and their quality will
be high, and these stipulations neces
aarily govern the merit of the projects.
The allotment of projects will be
an operation of planning, co-ordin
ating and balancing them, each with
the other. The program will get into
action—not at a slap-dash, headlong
pace—but rathpr with dispatch and
forthright celerity.
And I want to evaporate several
ghosts. None of these works relief
Jobs will displace any workers who are
now employed in business and in
dustry. They will be doing things
that otherwise would not be done.
This program is for the direct bene
fit of those who have lost their jobs
and their personal resources. But
everybody else will feel the stimulus. ■
The money_ that goes out in this '
program will" be active and alive—
Inoney to spend in the hands of those
Whose needs call for immediate spend
ing. It will go directly into the hands
©f those who work on the projects and
into the industries that provide ma
terials and equipment.
As these two channels branch and
rebranch, the money will go from
hand to hand. Increasing buying and
increasing employment in many fields
of business, Industry and commerce.
It will have direct effect, not only on
the needy unemployed, but on work
ers. foremen and owners of the
Industries that provide the goods
they use.
Every Citisen Has Stake.
The work-relief program calls for
the highest effort of every citizen
of the country. Under President
Roosevelt we are going forward in an
assault against unemployment. Every
citizen has a stake In this program.
Every phase of our national eco
nomic and social life is tied up in
it. and the appeal of all of us is to
go solidly together as a 'Nation to do
this .iob.
I have been working for the Gov
ernment of the United States for
nearly two years. I have worked
with the public officials all over the
country who have spent approximate
ly three billion dollars.
You don t need to worry about tnem
stealing this money.
For a time there was a great to-do
about graft in the C. W. A. program.
Well, now that we have the facts in
terms of serious charges and convic
tions, what does it really amount to?
There were nearly $1,000,000,000 spent
under that program, and throughout
the coimtry its millions of transac
tions were administered by more than
70,000 persons. The facts put the
activities of those 70.000 public serv
ants on the records of this country
as an outstanding job. You can
stack the records of those people
everywhere in America up against the
experience of private business and in
dustry and know that in public serv
ice you get just as high « degree of
honesty, just as great a devotion to
duty, just as much integrity of service
for every dollar spent.
With the work-relief program
ahead of us we can very logically
take stock now of our national con
ditions. Some months hence we shall
want to look back on these times and
make a comparison.
We know that nationally there la
substantial and measurable recovery.
We have left the dead level behind.
Business is improving and making
profits. Farmers' incomes are higher.
More people are at work and fewer
on relief. For two months we have
seen decline in the relief rolls. If
we want to sum up the national
trend in one word, that word is—
improvement.
We are going to put our might and
main into this job that will bring
a fairer deal for those on whom the
real brunt of economic disruption has
fallen—men and women, competent
to earn their living and support their
famllies, to whom the bread of char
ity is bitter, and who today are de
nied the God-given right of earning
their bread by the sweat of their
brows.
We are going into this program, all
of us, to serve this country of ours.
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