Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-17
60 .JOBLESS
GIVEN WORK
ON STREETS
Shank Plan to Aid
Unemployment Gets
Under Way.
MAYOR DIRECTS
Relief Made Possible
by Action Of
Council.

Sixty men, with families ranging
from seven to nine members, were
nut to work cleaning streets and re-
pairing unimproved streets by the
city administration today as the first
step in carrying out Mayor Samuel
Lewis Shanks scheme for affording
relief to the destitute unemployed.
The city council made the plan pos
gible by transferring $4,000 to new
fund. known as the emergency IN
employment fund" at the regular
meeting last evening.
The sixty men were selected from list
Of more than 1000 who have applied Tor
Jobs at the bureau operated under MI
Shank's orders by Maurice r. Collier on
the FIRST floor OF the city hall rotunda.
Forty were given cards authorizing them
to report to John +. Walker, superln-
tendent Of street cleaning, and twenty
to report to Martin J. Hyland, street
commissioner.
When the mayor learned, through q
misunderstanding Mr.. Walker had put
sixty men to work himself early in the
morning, he ordered Walker to discharge
them and replace them with the forty
picked from the list at the city hall.
KING GIVES
MEN CARDS.
The sixty men given cards were ap-
proved by John E. King, member Of the
city council, who is member OF the
committee authorized by ordinance to
mass on applicants for work under the
So a day or % cents an hour RELIEF plan.
For the present the provisions OF the
ordinance are not being strictly followed
because they would delay getting the
men it was said. The ordinance provides
a committee of seven shall approve appl-
cants and pass their names on to MI
King who in turn shall assign them 10
members of the council in whose districts
the applicants reside for final approval
To avoid this red tape, Mr.. King gave
Mr.. Collier a blanket approved for the
sixty men with large families to go 10
work at once
The ordinance is not actually in effect.
if not having reached the mayor from the
city clerk for signature. The mayor SAID,
however, he will sign it as soon as II
comes to him.
JOBLESS STORM.
CITY HALL.
The city hall had hardly been opened
when a crowd Of more than 200 JObless
men were gathered around Mr.. Collier
desk. They stayed there until late IN the
morning when Collier left for a moment $
rest. His has been one Of the most siren
uous Jobs in the city hall for several
days.
The $4,000 made available by the
council after an attempt Of City Coun-
Gilman Otto Ray to have the amount in
creased to $4,000, failed last night. The
meeting was marked by the welding OF
the parliamentary bludgeon upon the
minority faction by President Theodore
J. Bernd, who was told what to do from
the floor by Councilman Lloyd D. Clay
combe Of the majority.
The council passed three measures IN
der suspension Of the rules, including
that for the relief Of the unemployed,
one authorizing the park department TO
borrow S55. 600 on temporary loan and
transferring the duty Of and funds fol
maintaining improved streets from the
street commissioners department to the
city civil engineering department
FEE TO BE TAKEN IN
ATHLETIC CONTESTS.
Five other measures were introduced
as follows Creating an athletic commits
sion to issue permits and collect license
fees and 5 per cent commission from
every contest of athletic skill to which
admission is charged; authorizing the
boarI Of public works to issue 100000
worth Of bonds for the acquisition of the
site for city hall annex; restricting the
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