The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-19

wait for work, the league has
gone out to hunt it. Salvage of
all sorts, including nails carefully
extracted from old lumber, and
caSt-off clothing that has been re-
made by skilled league tailorS, has
proved veritable gold mine.
Old machinery, junked trucks
and autos have been rebuilt for
the leagues transportation and
manufacturing units.
Such things as the league has
been unable to swap for on a large
Scale-gasoline, for instance-its
Suave committees frankly have
"chiseled'; for instance, pointing
out to an oil company that it
would be better to donate 1000
gallons of gasoline than to face
higher taxes for relief.
nENVER has copied parts of
1.-the Seattle plan in it's Unem-
ployed Citizens League of Colo
RADIO, organized by Charles D.
Strong, a Denver architect. With
branches in several nearby cities
and towns. its sponsors claim a
membership of $4,000 persons, in
Guiding dependents.
Among other enterprises it lists
a coal mine, a woodcutting camp,
eighty trucks, and certain forms
of manufacturing.
The work began last fall, with
the labor of jobless men on farms
in return for foodStuffs. In some
cases, harvesting was done on
shares.
All the food, fuel, and clothing
thus far produced has been used
in direct relief, leaving nothing
to be battered. Members cooper
ate with the Red Cross in diStri-
button of flour from surplus gov
eminent wheat and in the making
of clothing from Red Cross cloth.
The Denver league is repre-
sented on the recently-formed
mayors committee to supervise
administration of federal relief
money obtained by the city.
In Houston, Tex, a band of
jobless men and women who are
pledged not to accept a cent of
money, are earning the actual ne
cessities, and a few of the lux
urieS, of life through the Unem-
ployed Citizens League of Hous-
ton.
Each member exchanges his
labor for commodities or services
that accumulate to the leagues
treasury and are distributed
equally.
MONEY is the one thing that
1V1 Houston's jobless will not
work for, and it is absolutely for
hidden to figure it in any Of their
calculations.
A laundry, shoe shop and 9TH
er enterprises are operated, and,
in one case, the men earned milk
for their families by repairing and
cleaning an alley in the rear of
large dairy.
In Waterloo, Ia, there are 2,100
members of the Waterloo Unem-
ployed Relief Club, all getting
their living from an organization
that was built upon potatoes.
Last summer, when unemployed
men sat idle on park benches,
somebody conceived the idea of
working for farmers in return for
food. Trucks were borrowed and
soon 165 men were off to Hollen-
dale, Mich, where huge crops of
potatoes awaited digging.
The diggers earned several car
loads of potatoes, onions, cabbage
and other vegetables. The Rock
Island railroad donated the
freight. Of the cabbage, 100 hogs
heads were made into kraut.
THE club was organized, it's
Il membership fee dime. The
simple principle of mo work, no
eat" was enforced.
Wood-cutting camps arose to
provide fuel, barber shop was
opened, lodging house followed,
then a furniture shop and a shoe
shop, and, finally, a mill to grind
their corn into meal.
Not long ago these men husked
corn for farmers and were paid in
live hogs. Jobless butchers cut
up the hogs.
Since a hog does not consist
wholly Of succulent pork chops,
these unemployed men reasoned
that there would be only one fair
way to divide this meat, share and
share alike. They ground it all
into sausage.
NEXT: How various scrip plans
designed to overcome the lack Of
money have succeeded and failed;
Grand Rapids and other cities.