3,000 men are, or will be soon, working of public projects. The housing problem is serious, as very few owners are willing to accept the trustee's terms. A number of the manufacturing plants around here have increased their forces, but no increase of pay. On the other hand I learn of a common practice of other concerns, who, when an employee is discharged or quits for any reason, divide his or her work among the remaining employees with not increase of pay. Many of these men and girls are really overworked, but dare not protest.
Jobs are too scarce.
Employers are demanding more and more the choice cuts of labor-men between 21 and 40, in some instances not over 35. Those younger or older are refused work regardless of their needs or fitness. We are noting more pronounced effects of malnutrition among our clinic babies as a result of the mothers' pre-natal insufficiency of nourishment, as well as the unpalatable monotony and inadaptability of the food during this period. Now that Federal Aid has been withdrawn from the township we are bracing ourselves, as a privately supported institution, to meet the increasing needs of the distressed. We are apprehensive of adequate funds for this purpose.