Evening star., 1933-07-16
.J0bS CUT RELIEF
BURDEN FURTHER
|NPENNSYLVAN|A
of DM
1900 Families Left Rolls in
June and Upturn
Continues.
BY WALTER d. ROOS.

Special Dispatch to The Star
HARRISBURG, Pa, July Is
New evidence of improvement In
employment and relief conditions
In Pennsylvania came this week.
With most county units still to
report, the State Emergency Re-
lief Board announced it has data
showing $4,000 families withdrew
from relief lists in June. In
Guiding dependents of the unem-
ployed, 10000 persons supported
by public food orders in May,
ceased to be a public charge in
June.
The largest decrease in number
OF State-supported jobless oc-
CURED in the thickly populated
Philadelphia district. The Pitts
burgh region failed to show a re-
duction until late June. Indus
trial upturns in July and August
are expected to bring additional
substantial declines.
A large gain also is expected
from employment the State will
provide on roads. At beginning
of July, 44,395 laborers were en-
ployed in surfacing sections on
which base courses were built last
Winter. New jobs will become
available after the ALLEGATION,
within 10 days, of about S50000,-
600 in road construction money,
including S18,891 900 in Federal
funds.
This program is expected to increase
the peak of road employment above the
$4,000 recorded last year. The num-
Der of jobs will depend upon types of
construction selected, for approximately
the same number of men can be given
cadam at $1,000 to $4,000 a mile as
in constructing mile of concrete high
way at $4,000 to $4,000 a mile.
Haunted by the fear that low State
Treasury balances may be insufficient
for relief needs in Autumn months.
fiscal officers were cheered this week
by revelation that the States new
beer tax is netting more than esti-
mated June the first full month the
tax was in force, yielded s540,000 in
beer tax. or more than $40, 900 for each
day of legal sales. If the thirst con-
tinues at the June rate. the beer rev.
enue may wipe out deficiencies in some
other taxes and keep the State out Of
the red. unless bankers are successful
in suit to prevent collection CT a
new S6000000 tax the State has i'm
posed on deposits in their institutions.
State officials also are beginning to
consider the possibilities Of revenues
for relief and general purposes from q
tax on liquor. if repeal of the eight
eenth amendment is accomplished by
the end of the year. A special legisla-
tive session would BE required to i'm
pose such levy. The regular session.
which in Spring imposed the tax Of
half cent pint and Sl24 barrel
on beer, did nothing toward regula-
ton or taxation of liquor, confiniag
its repeal activities to providing for q
convention to act on that question
Repeal Drive Opens.
The campaign for and against re-
peal opened this week. Monday was
the first day to obtain signatures to
petitions to place ON ballots the names
of candidates for delegate to the repeal
convention. The vets and the dry
forces each have named IS candidates,
and the State this week furnished Pc.
titions sufficient for each group to get
4oU,UUU SlgneTS 10 Ine nominating
papers.
The law requires minimum of 1000
signatures in each of at least 10 con-
gressional districts, to place the names
on ballots. Each group plans to get
the quota of signers in every one of
the "a congressional districts, although
it may be difficult to find 1000 willing
to sign for the dry candidates in some
Of the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh or coal
county districts. While Anti-Saloon
League officials Of the State were de-
nouncing President Roosevelt and Post
master General Farley for attempts
to influence the country for repeal.
leaders of the fight to ratify the new
amendment predicted Pennsylvania will
go to l for repeal and that not more
than four or five of the 81 counties
will show dry majority.