Evening star., 1933-09-03
|CAL|FORN|A CUTS
| UNEMPLOYED LIST
Number of JobIess in State
10000 Less In July
Than Year Ago.
PAY ROLL GAIN SHOWN
Average Weekly Sheet ~ Higher.
Women Prepare for Blue
Eagle Drive.
BY WALLACE C. BLAKEY.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LOS ANGELES, September 2.-There
is steady march Of Californians going
back to their old jobs or to new ones
with the expansion in pay rolls, due to
the N. r. A. movement.
Although the direct effect Of the
N. r. A. drive for more employment
and larger pay rolls. under the blanket
code plan, will not be apparent in sta
tistics until tabulations for August are
completed, 43 claSsif1cations of industry
in California out of 81 analyzed in July
showed job increases of 81 per cent
over July, 1892
The weekly pay roll average for the
same industries was A per cent above
the average during the same month
last year. According to the figures of
DR.. Louis Bloch. division Of labor sta
tistics the actual number of unem-
ployed In the State in July was 626, 1000.
This IS 10l 900 below the mark Of a
year ago. A drop Of nearly $4,000 was
recorded in July. the estimate showed,
the June figure being 674,000. January
marked the peak Of unemployment with
83l, 900 listed.
Home Canvass Planned.
Los Angeles women are going To see
their duty in this great battle for in
dustrial recovery and this week began
formulating plans to perfect an or
gan1zation to conduct house -to-h house
canvass designed to align housewives
and consumers behind the Blue Eagle
program.
Under the leadership Of Mrs. Sam
uel Cary Dunlap, president of the Ebell
Club Of Los Angeles, the women's di-
vision will open its campaign against
the forces Of unemployment and de-
preston next Monday. Various units
OF the women's corps will seek 10
line the consuming public in support
ing those merchants and industrialists
who have signed and who are con-
ducting their operations in full ac-
cordance with the tenets of the ma.
tlonal emergency pact.
Negotiations are under way to estab-
lish at least 200 additional civilian
conservation corps camps in Califor-
mia this Winter, according to an
nouncement by the California Chamber
OF Commerce.
Executives feel that favorable eli.
matte conditions offer an ideal oppor.
tunity to continue this phase of the
Federal relief program
1t Is claimed that the initial six
months program will result in the ex-
penditure Of s5000,000 for capital In
vestment, $4,000 returned to Cali
fornia dependents Of c. c. C. workers,
lifting the burden on relief agencies
s2,376, 900 expended on food supplies
and technical pay roll of $1,800,00
and s2000,000 invested in equipment.
In addition it is estimated the workers
will expend s500,000 monthly in local
communities adjacent to the camps.
Applications for Federal financing of
State public works projects totaling
5000 100000 are to be sent to Federal
authorities next week. Edward Hyatt,
State engineer, said the $l70, 1000, 900
Statewide water conservation appro-
priation will be ready for tentative
filing some time next week, and r. l.
Patterson, executive secretary of the
State Public Works Committee, stated
$50, 100000 more will be asked within
10 days for public buildings and other
miscellaneous projects, mostly for State
institutions.