The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-28
Neev Jobs Just a 'DribIet', Admits State Relief
Head AS Thousands Line Up tor Registration
Workers Applying for
Jobs Find Out That
Notices Lied
BY BENICE MuCHAELSoN

BY BENICE MICHAELSON
10000 Jobs Here In Works Pro-
gram. $1,000 To Be Employed by
Dec. Is. Others as Various Prof
ectS Are Extended."-N. Y. Times,
Nov. 49,"
WALKING up Broadway towards
w oath st., you see a line of men.
two and three deep, along 9th ST.,
winding around Broadway, and
swinging back to 28th st. to the doors
of the State Civil Works Administra-
ton. The men are pushed close to
the buildings. Mustn't interfere with
sidewalk trafficl
A committee of three, representing
the Unemployed Councils of New
York City, come to see Frederick
Daniels, executive director of the New
York State Temporary Relief. They
want to put few pointed questions
20 him on the disposition to be made
Of the thousands Of single men and
women who have been denied relief
and jobs.
"Aint You the Reds?"
At the entrance are two mounted
police, a sergeant, three footmen. An
officer stops Richard Sullivan, Sec
rotary of the City Unemployed Coun-
ellis, glances at the credential handed
to him. You're the Reds, amt you?
Wait right here. I've gotta see If Mr..
Daniels wants to see you-but don't
start any monkey husinessw A few
minutes later he returns. This way!"
The committee is led up the stairs,
past more officers, past flunkeys of
the State Relief, and into an ele-
vator to the sixth floor. Towards a
plain clothesnan the cop bends,
whispers, tits the Reds!"
Upstairs the atmosphere is
changed. Warm, well-heated offices;
low, modulated voices; polite young
women whose radiant, perfunctory
smiles flash at you, then vanish a
second later.
But even the sheltered compla-
cency Of the offices do not drown
ont the spontaneous shouting of.
the thousands below, impatient and.
angry at being forced to wait for
hours in the raw morning cold.
"Mr. Daniels will be with you in a
few minutes" The committee waits
fifteen.
MIR. Daniels, pleasant faced young
man, blonde, slender, assumes q very
considerate manner towards his three
visitors. Evidently relieved at sight
Of only three. No trouble, this timely
He listens politely to Dick Sullivan,
who wants to know what the State
Relief will do in the way of jobs for
the single men and women Of New
York City. Did the executive director
know that nothing had been done for
them, that they were being discrimi-
mated against? Sullivan, short,
sturdy, clad in a brown leather wind
breaker, leisurely rolls cigarette as
he speaks.
No instructions to Discriminate
why, no instructions, as far as I
know, have gone from this office, or
from Washington, about discrirninat-
ing against single men and women
was the reply. 1--WE tell our agencies
to take applications Of single people
along with those OF families, and they
just have to take their chances, along
with the next fellow. OF course, in
cases where jobs are open, a family
man would get the preference. On
Jobs for single people, well I
don't have to tell you there aren't
even enough for family heads. And
these new jobS-they don't even
touch the question Of the unem-
ployed. They're just a driblet :"
He crushes cigarette in the ash
tray. Nov, the Federal Government,
ard we here, are taking steps to care
for some of the transients-you know,
intra-city unemployed who drift from
town to town, have no place to
anchor :"
Immediately, Jack Roth, represen-
tative OF the Downtown Unemployed
Council speaks up, slowly, quietly, but
with unmiStakable persistence: What
about the unemployed single residents
OF New York? From my experience
in unemployed work, I know that
when single men and women apply
at the Home Relief Bureau, they get
no break at all. They're kicked out.
What provisions are you making to
give them jobs?"
Mr.. Daniels, cornered, smiles a little
warly. ''Well, we take single applica-
lions along with the rest" he an
swered smoothly. "As I told you, in
Structions are not to discriminate
against them. Now if T made a spe-
cial case of these single men and
women, 1t would be discriminating
for them. =" He lights another
cigarette, holds it daintily between
long, smooth fingers.
Admits Discrimination Against
Negroes
CULLIVAN continues. 1.-THE Negroes
y of New York City, especially in
Harlem, have received practically no
relief, much less Jobs. What do you
intend doing about them?"
"An the agencies deny such dis
elimination. Oh, I'm aware 1t exists,
all right" Daniels wakes confidential;
he bends forward what we have to
do is get figures. That's the only
way we can prove it, He admitted
the relief and Jobs given to Negro
workers ("group," he called themD
were practically nil; admitted that the
discrimination was varied in meth
DDS; and limited vaguely about rene
dying the scandalous situation by,
perhaps, maybe, possibly, even 'plac-
ing colored people in the agencies.
We may have to give direct instruc-