Evening star. [volume], April 04, 1937, Page A-14, Image 14

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Prejudice Hampering Order
ly Adjustment in Indus
trial Field.
•wlfai Dispatch to The Star.
dt,EVELAND Ohio, April 3 (N.A.
K tl) .—The belief of many Cleveland
emiloyers that persons on relief or
W. JP. A. are members of a “lost gen
eration" which it will be difficult to
fit again into the industrial world is
by no means shared by Clevelanders
who are on relief or W. P. A.
Moreover, not all relief clients or
W. P. A. workers are anxious to re
main charges of the Government.
This was revealed in a survey of
the opinions and experiences of re
lief clients. W. P A. workers, social
workers, C. C. C. and W. P. A. officials
—a survey conducted before and
after a similar survey of employer
opinion.
Here is the other side of the story:
A W. P. A. supervisor—The person
nel of the project consists of approx
imatelv 350 people, who, before the
depression, held positions ranging
from school teachers and technical
workers to general managers and
chief engineers of large concerns.
These people are doing all in their
power to return to private industry
and I am sure, if taken on by private
industry, will do their utmost to gain
advancement, carry out orders and
adhere to all disciplinary regulations
*et up by any organization.
Strict Regulation.
The people employed are under a
•trict disciplinary regulation as to ar
riving at their work on time, absence
and other regulations. If the division
supervisor finds these people guilty of
any misdemeanor, he has the right to
and does discipline them in accord
ance with W. P. A. regulations.
Mayor Burton is going to attempt
to put persons who are on W. P. A.
and relief rolls back to work in private
industry. He is going to be con
fronted by a stone wall which consists
of the employment agencies and pri
vate industry, who will not hire these
people because of their temporary
relief employment on W. P. A. and
T. W. A. projects.
As to the business man who states
♦hat "I have seen too many of them
with my own eyes leaning on shovels
to be interested in giving them a job.”
has he ever shoveled all day long
without once leaning on his shovel
to rest?
A relief client said: “I have a wife
and two children, both of high school
age. Before the depression I some
times earned as much as $150 a
month as a mill hand When I lost
my job. in 1932. I lived for 13 months
on my savings and then, for' a few
more months, on credit.
“Finally, my landlord evicted me,
and. when it became certain I could
not find another job. I finally went on
relief. By that time I had piled up
$175 in debts. We have been getting
about $55 a month in relief. I worked
for a while on W. P. A., but my proj
ect was completed and I was laid off
and had to go back on relief again.
I have been answering many ads for
jobs, but, when I tell them I have
been on relief, they won’t take me.”
A girl on relief said: “An employ
ment agency sent me to a woman who
offered $7 a week for a maid. When
I got there and she found I had been
on relief she said that, of course, in
that case, I couldn’t expect to earn
more than I was getting on relief, so
she offered me $4. Then she threat
ened to report me to the relief people
if I didn't take the job. I told her to
go ahead and report me. that she had
got me to come out there under false
pretenses.”
Camp Work Training.
A C. C. C. camp official: “We feel
that the disciplinary and work train
ing given by C. C. C. camps to its
enrollees is conducive to better work
In future civilian employment. It is
extremely unfortunate that the term
*Ex. C. C. C. youth’ may be applied to
any youth who has been in C. C. C.
camp from one day to four years; it
Is also unfortunate that e few isolated
cases of the nature reported can give
Any type of organization a bad name.”
A W. P. A. painter: “I probably
could get off W. P. A. if I could afford
to join the union. I used to belong, but
that doesn’t count. I would have to
pay the initiation fee all over again,
and I am not making enough for that.
In this town a non-union painter can’t
get a private job. I am afraid that all
of us non-union painters will have
to learn factory work of some kind if
we ever hope to have private jobs
•gain.”
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have been all over the city and every
where it is the same remark, "We do
not need help.’ I am not on relief or
W. P. A. I am willing to work at any
thing or learn."
A social worker: "Certainly, there
are some lazy persons on relief, but
they were lazy before they got there
and relief didn’t make them lazy. If
people who criticize relief clients could
go into the kind of houses they have
to live in. could find themselves with
out a few cents even to buy a news
paper, had to beg for a pair of shoes
for their children and then maybe not
get them, such people might not be so
ready to condemn.”
If there were enough money properly
to clothe these people, a good many
of them could get jobs, but neither
their morale nor their appearances
are kept up by the kind of relief now
given in Cleveland and, so long as this
kind of relief is given, we can expect
to pay for it by having these people
«tay on relief.
(Copyright, 1937, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
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FRUIT GROWERS OF U.S.
GAIN FRENCH BENEFITS
Ministry of Agriculture Suspends
Import Tax on Pears
and Apples.
By tne Associated Press.
PARIS. April 3.—The ministry of
agriculture granted benefits to Amer
ican fruit growers yesterday, suspend
ing the import tax of 12 francs (about
55 cents) a box on pears and 8 irancs
(about 37 cents) on apples.
The American Embassy invoked a
clause of the Franco-American trade
treaty, under which the signatories
agreed to make possible full use of
quotas, to obtain the import tax
suspension.
Suspension of the taxes will con
tinue until June 30. when the 1936-7
quota, ot which only 37 per cent had
been filled up to the end of February,
will expire.
The suspension Is expected to stim
ulate Import buying, which has lagged
in view of lower prices for domestic
fruit. Officials said it was too late
for a major upturn, but foresaw some
large shipments, especially from
storage in the American Northwest.
COERCION IS CHARGED
BY NEWSPAPER GUILD
Anti-Union Activities by United
Press Alleged in Complaint
to Labor Board.
Br the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 3 —
Chnrges of coercion, Intimidation and
anti-union activities by the United
Press Associations were before the Na
tional Labor Relations Board today.
David R. Young, president Northern
California Newspaper Guild, filed ac
cusatlons last night In behalf of the
United Press Unit of the Guild.
Prank Bartholomew, Pacific Coast
manager for the United Press, said
he would meet today with Labor
Relations Board. A copy of the com
plaint had not been served on him,
Bartholomew stated.
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Five Strikeouts in Inning.
WALLA WALLA, Wash., April 3 OP).
—Young Bob Kennedy of St. Patrick's
Grade School, struck out five Waits
burg batters in one inning—two get
ting to first base because the catcher
dropped the third strike.
ALLIGATORS EXPORTED
Chicago, Believe It or Not, Sends
Them to FloridR.
CHICAGO, April 3 (&).—No fooling,
Chicago’s exporting alligators to
Florida.
Director Edward H. Bean of the
Brookfield Zoo said he recently re
ceived a letter from Boss Allen, owner
of a reptile park at Silver Springs,
Fla., asking him to please send some
alligators, if he had any to spare.
So Bean is sending a dozen, assorted.
NEW LOUD-SPEAKERS
INSTALLED AT STADIUM
Innovations Designed to Cut In
terference and Make Apparatus
Weather-Proof.
The familiar "tin pan" tones that
emerge from a loud-speaker when the
announcer prepares to cease and desist
by dropping his voice from high so
prano to low bass will be absent at
Griffith Stadium base ball games this
season.
Installation of a new loud-speaker
system, with innovations designed to
eliminate interference and make the
apparatus weatherproof, was com
pleted at the stadium yesterday by
engineers of the Capitol Amplifier Co.
of Washington.
The set includes seven giant speak
ers, each with 5-foot face and 12 feet
long, mounted on a high platform next
to the bleachers, a control board under
the grandstand, pre-amplifiers for an
nouncers in the press box and on toe
field, and a network of wires.
Foot ball game announcing will be
taken care of with an underground
wire stretched into centerfield. The
speakers will be mounted on another
platform and moved up behind the
foot ball bleachers.
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