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giving them vocational training for that
time.
La Guardia would authorize s2o,-
100000 to purchase 100000 suits of
clothing for men: 100000 for women
and children and 100000 pairs Of shoes.
These would be manufactured entirely
of domestic materials and distributed
through State or municipal agencies or
directly by the Labor Department. Re-
cipients either could accept them as
gifts or promise to pay for them in the
future.
He suggested establishment Of five
public health centers, and that the
Public Health Service care for unem-
ployed seamen. He proposes establish
ment OF guaranty fund to protect
depositors against future bank failures,
Before the Senate Committee, Pin
chot estimated Secretary Melons In
come to be "at lesst $40 100000 year
and how much more we do not know
MANY Flee Appeals"
He said he understood "a good many
rich people left the country this Winter
so as not to be present when relief
drives came along" He revealed ths
| letter of Senator Reed. Republican, of
Pennsylvania, to himself last Summer
| saying Pennsylvania could and would
take care of her own unemployed.
The Republican machine to which
Senator Reed belongs defeated State re-
lief plans" added the Governor.
Us that machine controlled by Mel
| lon2" asked Senator Costigan. ..
1T is controlled in part at least by
Mellon, but not as much as 1t was"
added the Governor
Lewis pleaded before the committee
for a special Federal relief agency to
meet "destitution" among the unem-
ployed miners.
ITO a large extent" he said, these
miners and their families are colonized
in mining communities removed from
the industrial centers where community
chests have been provided, remote from
the eyes OF those fortunate citizens
whose hearts are touched in the pres
ence OF destftution and beyond any hope
OF relief from local appropriations.
Living Forced Lower.
The billions invested in hituminous
coel mines have gone pennilesS for
years, while the miners have been
pushed down to the lower levels of
pauperiZation. Many mining come
munitieS located in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
West Virginia, Illinois, Kentucky, In
diana and other States are, from the
standpoint Of self-help, literally fiat
on their backs, scarcely able to raise
the bare necessities for the sustenance
of life.
approximately 175,000 of the 240, 900
distressed bituminous coal miners are
located within six States and are iso-
lated in regions wheTe coal mining is
practically the only industrial enter
prise, merchants are bankrupt; banks
are closed, schools are without operat-
ing funds, and even once considered
wealthy residents, by reason of their
holdings Of coal securities, are in al
most as dire want as are the coal
miners. These coal mining municipal
tiles and townships cannot collect taxes
and have exhausted their credit"
Red Cross Declines Aid.
Mr. Lewis said THE American Red
Gross has not put q single silver dol
lar into the mouths of the hungry mine
workers and their families" He re-
called that the miners contributed 100
per cent of their quotas to the Red
Cross in the war.
Asked the reason for this, Lewis said
the Red Gross held to the position that
its relief work was restricted to war,
fire, flood or pestilence.
He recalled a recent letter by the
Governor of Indiana to President Hoo
yer saying Indiana would take care OF
her own"
yet there are $4,000 miners and
their families in Indiana" he said
whom neither the Governor nor any
other agency has given a single dollar
or penny to relief.
"Of all the Governors, Gov. Pinchot
of Pennsylvania has taken a more ad-
vanced position and has done more TO
help the poor"