Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-30
NATION Mobiles
$1,ODQ,OlO,0)D FUND
Cities, States and U. S. Put
Up Resources to Help
JobIess in Crisis.

100000 for boulevards, with $145 ,00O,-
600 additional expenditure by other
agencies. official and private San
Francisco is to spend $4,000, 900.
Nearly all of Americas large cities
where the concentration of great num-
bers Of persons presents a problem
of unemployment, both in good times
and in poor, have taken action to meas
ure their local situations.
New York is conducting a systematic
survey of her jobless. Twenty thou
sand names have been listed with emer-
gency relief measures taken to meet
immediate needs. But beyond this the
city has appropriated nearly $250,000
to pay additional labor in parks, giving
work to 1000 men three days a week.
A Wall Street group is planning pool
of $4,000 a week to provide more jobs.
The awarding of residential building
contracts in New York City during Oc-
tober averaged 81 1924, 400 a day-$432,-
800 more a day than during last Oc-
tober.
Chicago's projects which are now
and which are soon to be include con-
struction of two Century of Progress
buildings, the expenditure of nearly
5000, 000, 900 by the insult public util-
itieS) companies for extensions and i'm
provements, the widening of streets
and construction of 1000 miles of new
ones and extensive park work. An eff
fort is now being made to get an i'm
mediate Supreme Court decision under
which the city hopes to begin the ex-
penditure of $12,00o,000 on its water
system.
Detroit Pushes Campaign.
While Mayor Frank Murphy's Relief
Committee has begun hunting jobs for
$1,000 persons registered as unemployed
in Detroit, the city has laid plans for
carrying its contract program into the
Winter months. Other Michigan cities
which, like Detroit, depend for their
industrial life upon the automobile
have started "a job for every man.
campaign and are extending their mu-
nicipal jobs into the Winter Grand
Rapids, Mich, has been heartened by
the announcement by furniture fac
tories Of an increase in orders.
Indianapolis, the twin cities of Min
nesota, DeS Moines and Columbus, Ohio,
are among cities in the Middle West
where unemployment, 1t Is stated, has
not reached point of unusual concern,
although these cities, as well as most
every other one in the country, plan to
push public works and private construc-
ton as palliatives.
Boston has taken hold Of the ques-
ton of work with the commencement
OF school buildings and with the in
auguration of a 25,000,000 three-year
program to eliminate grade crossings.
Road Building Programs.
Springfield and Worcester are two
other Massachusetts cities which have
mapped carefully what they believe will
be a route around unemployment. In
Vermont and New Hampshire road
building programs are being pushed as
rapidly as possible.
The South has perhaps fewer or
ganized unemployment relief programs
ever, has gone ahead, not only in State
construction work, but in a movement
calculated to encourage business organ
izations to hasten any contemplated
improvements.
UNEMPLOYMENT and drought are
closely joined in relief measures in
many areas of the South. In South
Carolina SIS, 900 900 highway program
Is being started In the expectation 1t
will 60 far toward giving work to
Carolinars now unemployed.
Nashville, Tenn, claims the best
record Elm America of cities in the
100, 900 population class. Census figures
show that city to have only per cent
unemployment.
Florida Locks to Tourists.
Florida looks to its citrus fruit crop
and to tourists to take up the unem-
ployment slack there. Louisiana has
only nominal number Of jobless; and
Jackson, Miss, is experiencing a mild
boom, due to oil. A 5000 900 hydro
electric project in Arkansas awaits only
Federal authorization before affording
work for many hundreds.
The entire South is taking steps to
prevent Winter influx of jobless from
other parts of the country. This senti-
ment marks virtually all communities.
1t Is evidenced by repeated statements
Virginia jobs for Virginians" and by
missioner of Iowa:
iowa has been able to take care of
its own laborers all Summer, virtually
all unemployed being men who came
here from outside. The prospect Is for
enough work to care for Iowas own
laborers throughout the Winter, but
not outsiders"
Big Iowa Pipe Line.
In Iowa two pipe line companies
plan an expenditure of $21 100000 to
construct natural gas and gasoline lines
TO $50 cities, absorbing 10000 men who
were employed during the Summer in
road construction. Other workers will
find Iowa jobs in road construction
costing 0,000, 900, half Of which will
be paid out in wages.
State governments, though further
removed from the immediate conse-
quences of unemployment than cities,
have taken the lead in outlining definite
programs for road work, for the adj
vancing of construction originally in
tended for Spring, and for maintenance.
The railroads likewise have been con-
tributors to programs of work. At
Cheyenne, Wyo., the Union Pacific has
under way a terminal enlargement
project involving 81 800 900. The Boston
& Maine Railroad has announced q
new policy which will create work for
200 additional men along its lines. The
Chicago & Alton Railroad announced
the unemployment of 1900 men at its
Bloomington, Ill, shops.
New Jersey Maps Policy.
A definite program aiming at reduc-