The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-05
NATION FIGHTS
TO PUT LABOR
BACK At POST
Workmen'S Holiday Finds
II Million JobIeSS,
Needing Aid.
SEEK TO SPREAD WORK
Countrywide Co-0rdina-
,tion of Relief Efforts to
Be Attempted.
BY MARSHALL MNEIL
Times stan Writer

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-The
private and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
offensives against unemployment
that battle of Scissors" as Presi-
dent Hoover termed Indefinitely
are under way as the nation reaches
another Labor day to find IL 900, 900
persons out of work, and more than
twice that number dependent upon
others for food and clothing and
shelter
Within ten days, national leaders
will meet here to start the country
wide coordination of local unem-
ployment relief efforts; and, mean
time, private industry assisted by
the federal government is making
another effort to spread and in
crease work.
Besides its own public works pro-
gram, which has Jagged despite
larger appropriations made in the
relief act, the government is just
beginning to make loans through
the Reconstruction Finance Corpo-
ration for Self-hquidating projects.
Government Has Program
The governments efforts to in
crease and maintain employment
are briefly these:
1. It's own public works program.
2. Loans through the R. F. c. to
railroads for maintenance and re-
pair work.
3. Loans through the r. F. G. for
self -liquidating works, such as
bridges, slum clearance, etc.
4. The federal-aid highway pro-
gram.
s. Stimulation of purchases by
private industry, urged by the adj
sponsored business and
industrial committees formed in the
federal reserve districts.
g. Spreading of work in private in
dustry, also part of the B. & I. pro-
gram, and in direct charge now of
Walter Teagle, Standard Oil oper-
ator.
These efforts in the third year of
the depression are directed against
the most stupendous amount of I'M
ever seen here.
Wage Scales, Jobs Low
The stock market has been rising,
commodity prices have increased
and have been reflected somewhat
in living costs, but wage scales and
are at new low levels.
This situation is made more acute
by the new plans of railroad man
agementS to reduce wages again,
which will affect more than a mil
lion men now employed.
Since these and past efforts have
been met with increasing unemploy-
ment, the relief of these jobless and
their dependents constitutes the
most pressing national problem, the
one which leaders of the second well
fare and relief mobilization hope it
will help solve, temporarily, at least.
This mobilization has assumed
the duty again of stimulating local
efforts to raise funds for unemploy-
ment relief, and while it intends
no national fund for ma
tlonal disbursement, it hopes to
make local communities so acutelv
conscious Of their needs as to pre-
vent starvation and suffering this
winter.
Other Relief Programs
Three other national relief pro-
grams work into this scheme.
l. The Red Cross is preparing to
start distribution of the second Gift
OF 100000 bushels of wheat. al
lotted it from the federal farm
board stocks by congress. The first
gift, totaling 100000 bushels, was
turned into flour for good for more
than 100000 persons.
2. The Red Cross is beginning tn
distribute as cloth the 100000 bales
OF farm board cotton voted for this
purpose by congress. It has re-
quests for clothing for 100000 per-
sons, received through about two
thirds of its chapters, and it has
called upon million women over.
the nation to help local Red Cross
chapters sew this relief cloth into
clothing.
Federal Loans Made
3. The Reconstruction Finance
corporation is making loans for
direct unemployment relief. These
nave been smaller, and less quickly
given than authors of the relief act
apparently contemplated; but. even
30; money for this purpose has been
to Illinois, $4,000. 900:
Ohio, $1,620,662; Michigan. $780,
100; Louisiana, $1,096,084; Wiscon-
'in, $4,000, 900; North Dakota, $50
700; South Dakota, $3.50 900; Flor
ida, 100000; Utah, 1896, 900, and
Idaho, $4,000
The r. F. c. has $500 900 900
Tor such advances and loans, to be
paid back, in large part, by deduc-
ions from future federal-aid high
way ALLEGATIONS. And extended use
If the remainder Of this money is
expected to be one of the chief
points of discussion at the welfare
and relief mobilization conference
here Sept. Is.
But outside Of this federal relief
the chief problem of provid-
ing unemployment relief this win
Ter is one of getting sufficient funds
from local public treasures, which
have borne the brunt Of the relief