The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-18
CALL ON CITY ID
 PROVIDE FOR HER
 UNEMPLOYED MEN
Awakening to Reality of Sit uation Regarding Lack of Food and Other NeceSSi-
 ties-Start Monday

Birmingham is to be called upon
 during the coming week to care for
 her unemployed and to extend
 emergency relief until such time as
 arrangements can be made to en-
 able them to become self-supporting. l At meeting of the Chamber Of | Commerce at 4 o'clock yesterday aft- ernoon. the various clubs and organi-
 zations which will conduct the can vass and a number of prominent citi= zens. reports were made that praeti' cally all organizations were ready
 with their teams to take me field
 Monday morning. Due to the fact
 that the Kiwanis and Exchange clubs
 have held no meeting since they
 were asked to take charge Of ter
 r;tory in the campaign, they VII put their teams out and make he can
 vass late in the week.
 Leading Citizens
 The meeting yesterday afteraooh
 was attended by a number Of leading men who are not members of the
 committee and who were not team
 captains. Among those present were l C. B. Mccormack. Maj. E. M' Iut-
 wiler. Joe E. Loveman, Lou's P,1ltz' l w Donnelly, w. !. Adams, Aanl l hood. w. B. Allen, Leo K. steiner ! Sydney t. Bowie. John W. O'Neill' l Rev. J. A. Bryan. Mrs. John k. Hor- l nady. M. V. Joseph. sam C. king 1 David J Davis, r. II. Lathrop, C. h' l Harsh. Jf.. Jay smith, R. 4, Porter Mrs. H. E, Pearce. (. N. Wiley, Je- | rome Tucker, j. F, McWane. Claud l Ii. Estes. D. s. McEachern, Mrs IL i F. Shell. and many others.
 | Jay Smith. vice chairman, presided | in the absence of Col. T. 0. Smitn and reported on conditions in tho city | ard suburbs as shown by personal l investigation which ne had made that ] day Mir. Smith declared that all that 1 had been published about the priya- i ton and need was true and that even more might be said without eSag-
 seration. He told of cases within | enc and two blocks of the coHrth )use i and only a short distance from the l city hall which proved a revelation
 to some who had thought that most l of the suffering was in the mineral
 district,
 Partial Report
 Rcports on the work thus far done
 were made by tt A. Porter and others
 and the systematic plan for handling tbe relief fund relieving the situa 1 ton was outlined. Louis Pizitz, J. | w. Donnelly. sydney J. Bowie, J. R. McWane and others spoke, all declar- ing the need for action was ursent and that large fund would be needed to | care for the emergency relief until the people in need were able to se- cure permanent jobs.
 It was declared that those needing assistance were largely very worthy people who had lost their positions through no fault os their own an that the people of Birmingham must do their duty in this emergency by coming to the rescue. Plans wera also outlined for the appointment of large committee O; prominent men tc cooperate with the municipal ein- ployment bureau and the city welfare departmen in getting positions for
 the unemployed as fast as possible.
 Co-opcrntion
 The hearty cooperation of all pres ont was promised in making the
 campaign success and the belief was expressed that the people would
 sacrifice if necessary rather than see
 the unempioyed suffer for lack of food and the health of any women. children or babies injured for lack Of proper nourishment
 A resolution was adopted to raise the sum of money needed and that I record be kept of those who contrib uted and if on January there was no further need for help, the balance be pro-rated and returned to the donors It was decided to get the i money in cash where possible. but where this was not feasible, payment of one third cash and the balance in at and 60 days will be asked.