Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1937 — Page 4
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FATE OF 475,000 WORKERS DROPPED FROM WPA ROLLS HELD ENSHROUDED IN DOUBT
Few Find Private Jobs or Ge May Be
in Desperate Straits by Mid-Winter, Writer Says.
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A recent Times survey showed
WPA =olls in Indiana had turned to direct relief.
that many of those dropped from Today, The Times
presents the first of two articles on the national aspects of the situa-
tion.
By E. A. EVANS WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—Nearly 475,000 men women have been dismissed from WPA jobs in the last three | months—and nobody knows what most of them are doing |
now, Comparatively few of the vate employment, although ir
temporary work at wages which, in at least some cases, are | lower than they got on Government work relief. | In various industrial cities, from 20 to 90 per cent of the persons dropped from WPA have applied for direct local | relief, but few of their applications have been granted.
The majority of them are odd jobs, or through the help
spending what money they
were able to save from WPA |
wages. Their dismissal has stopped disiribution of about $20,000,000 a month in work-relief payrolls, and of other millions in purchase of materials, but business has felt no severe effect. Retail trade in many sections is better than last summer, when nearly a million more people were on the various Federal work programs and when the soldiers’ honus was being paid. The drastic WPA cuts have been made with little disorder and with few reports of extreme suffering. But there is. however, no basis for the assumption that most of the people dismissed no longer will need public assistance. On the contrary, many of them unquestionably will he in desperate straits before midwinter These conclusions are drawn {rom reports by Scripps-Howard correspondents in 20 cities, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Great Lakes to the Mexican border, who were asked to study the effects of the recent WPA economy reducrons.
[comes of persons when they
115,000 More Removed
These reductions, in addition to | the nearly 475,000 persons they have taken off WPA since May, have removed about 115,000 more from jobs ‘under other Federal agencies employing relief labor. The cuts were ordered from Washington, as necessarv to stay within the $1,500,000 Federal relief appropriation which President Roosevelt asked and Concress voted for the fiscal year that | began July 1 Evidence so far available proves no case for either extreme represented in the debate over that appropriation—either for those who argued that disaster would follow unless two billion dollars or more was provided, or for those who wanted to cut the amount to a billion or less. There has been no disaster—yet, It is possible that even more persons than have been dropped by WPA could have “got by” during the summer. It is also possible that the sum appropriated will be gravely inadequate to the needs of the coming winter
Facts Established
But certain facts do seem to be established by the reports of the] Scripps-Howard correspondents | which, because they were gathered | in widely distributed states and in| both urban and rural districts, are | believed to present a fair cross-sec- | tion: 1. Private employment, save In certain seasonal occupations and a | few localities, is not absorbing more | than a fraction of the persons dis-| missed from work relief 9. The persons dropped by WPA are, for the most part, those | who by reason of age, physical con- | dition or mental attitude were con- | <idered least efficient on work-re- | lief projects. BY the same token, | thev are the ones least likely to be wanted by private employers. 3 Those who are out of work relief and who do not find private | obs are likely to fare badly if—or | when—they exhaust their present | resources and apply for local direct relief Most cities and counties | have been providing meager aid, if anv, for employable persons who couldn't get on WPA. There were | hundreds of thousands of such persons even when WPA was al 1s peak. The local governments, generally. contend that they are overburdened by the task of supporting the unemployable poor and that | they can’t do more than they have | been doing for the employables. Job-Finding Difficult 4 The effectiveness of Federal | and state employment Services varies widely in different states and cities. But In many localities ¥ |
appears easier to find private jobs for people who never have been on relief, and even for those who | have been on local direct relief, | than for those dismissed by WPA. |
5 There is an amazing lack of |
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By CHALMER M. ROBERTS Times Special Writer “lieved to be “oetting by” MILWAUKEE, Aug. 24.—An atbelieved o Te Le XT tempted political stunt of the of relatives and Irends or BY |gomer Martin faction’ overflowed EE . = into a general burst of union enpe- | thusiasm which today made the "| United Automobile Workers look ATC more like a political party than a dropped by WPA. There is prac- trade union. tically no system for keeping track | The Martin group, seeking to oust
. {the “unity” or militant faction of them. They aisappear from the headed by Vice Presidents Wyndrecords and, except as they reap-| nam Mortimer and Ed Hall decided pear on other records as applicants | yesterday to make President Marfor direct relief, what they do and |tin’s first convention appearance an how they exist are things that “no- RS demonstration of their Bw ig . strength. body knows. But when the demonstration came, In New York City, nearly 24,000 all sides joined in a combination the more than 35000 persons | of good-natured booing and lusty dismissed by WPA since June 30 [cheering that left the 2000 delegates, have applied for direct relief. But wives and guests tired and hoarse. only 14623 of them have been | Just before Mr. Martin appeared, granted such help. And many of | Richard Frankehsteen, beefy young the others, interviewed individually, he say that their efforts to find private jobs have failed. Contrasted with that uation in industrial Pittsburgh, where the direct-relief load has dropped right along with WPA em-
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NEXT—The effects of the WPA cuts in various cities and states in more detail.
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| ex~footballer, Mr. Martin's aid and a candidate for a vice presidency, appeared. His arrival was the signal for a big Martin “progressive” group demonstration. Then Mr, Martin appeared, behind a band. The Martin-Frankensteen groups paraded halfway around the big Eagles Hall auditorium, whereupon everyone else decided to join the parade, They did. Mr, Martin was carried on shoulders. Others lifted the hefty Frankensteen, Then apparently everybody else carried the other officers——of both factions,
The scene resembled a convention following the nomination of a party leuader. Il took an hour for the delegates to blow off steam. Then they were so tired the convention adjourned until today. John Brophy, director and some
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either of projects. The picture is different in the | large cities of Ohio and Indiana. In Columbus, where WPA has dismissed more than 2000 persons since May 1, 741 of them have asked for direct relief but it has been granted to only 264. At Cincinnati, in the earlier part of this year, persons quitting voluntarily to take private employment kept the WPA rolls below their quota. But, of the 700 dismissed by WPA in the Cincinnati district in June, 95 per cent have applied for direct relief and only a handful have obtained it. In Akron, all but 400 of the discharged WPA workers are believed to have found other employment, though most of these 400 have applied unsuccessfully for direct relief. In Toledo, there have been 1841 WPA dismissals since May 1, and 1713 applications for direct relief, few of them granted. And in Indianapolis and other industrial
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Martin Gets Ovation at U. A W. Parley
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The reception indicated that he is in a strong position to meet the challenge of the “unity group” headed by Wyndham Mortimer and E. Hall, vice presidents,
what of a trouble-shooter for the
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