The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-02-08
Voice Demand for Help
From Big Federal Fund
Want County Fathers to Ask
100000 For Each Of
Next Three Months

~sS~S~SS W eOVU W
Next Three Months
A demand that the Burleieh coun-
ty commission Immediately apply for
$500, 900 from the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation for relief Of the
needy In the next three months was
placed before the board late Tuesday
following = mass meeting Of 800 men
and women at the courthouse, to
which hungry workers." had been in
vited.
The meeting was sponsored BY the
newly organised Bismarck Unemploy-
ed Council, Of which Joseph H. Tauer,
1904 Avenue G, Is president. r. A.
Middaueh, 307 Fourth st., u vice
president and Frank Kuehn. 4l8
Eighth st., secretary
A resolution adopted by the mass
meeting declares there now exists
a serious condition Of unemployment
and hundreds Of people are in dire
need Of the necessities of life in
Bismarck and Burleigh county" and
demands that the county board apply
to the r. F. G. for 100000 for Feb
ruary, March and April each and
longer If necessary"
The resolution was adopted despite
advice from Roy w. Frazier. appoint.
ed by Governor william LANCER to
investigate need for relief, that it
would be useless to demand 50 large
a sum because the government would
not grant the request.
Commissioners Are Called
Following adoption of the resolu.
ton, members Of the county commits
sion, who were holding their regular
February business meeting on the
floor below, were called into the mass
meeting and the resolution was read
before them. The commissioners re-
piled that though 1t apparently was
impossible to secure the amount de-
marded, they would take the reso-
luton under consideration.
At the close Of the meeting new
members were enlisted In the Unem-
ployed Council, bringing membership
to approximately 100, and 4 corps
Of secretaries listed the needs OF more
than 4 score Of unemployed persons
to be turned over to the county COM
mission. The council already had Z
list Of 267 persons who need immedi-
ate relief, according to Vice President
Middaugh. the new names bringing
the list to about 800.
After the mass meeting, more than
q dozen appeared In the commission
ers' meeting to demand coal immedi-
ately. The commission then ordered
1000 pounds Of coal to be delivered
before nightfall to each Of IL homes.
A committee named to make IN in
vestigation Of relief needs included
Tauer and Middaugh: David Fryer.
la Sixth st.: Earl +. Schultz, 406
Seventeenth st.: and John Volk, 523
South Thirteenth st.
Four Gave Speeches
Among speakers were Frazier, Fred
Argast, G. J. Stretch. Bottineau coun-
ty, vice president Of the North Da-
kota Farm Holiday association: and
Charles Taylor, Plentywood, Mont.
I'VE can't get the money because
the governments got It," Frazier said.
land the governments got the guns
to protect 1t with"
The governors spokesman said he
believed" the money In the r. r. G.
fund is "ours," but In view Of the fact
the government has the money and
the means to protect 1t, the best
thing We can do Is to comply with
their rules to get It."
He explained that loans could be
obtained only upon sworn statements
showing the exact needs for relief
and declared that 100000 per month
never can be obtained"
He said Governor LANCER Is recon-
mending to county commissioners
that they apply for loans from the
r. F. G. under q plan which does not
necessitate the issuing Of certificates
Of indebtedness for the retirement Of
the loans and the three per cent in
terest attached. Under the Cover.
nor's plan, which Frazier said has been
authorized by the federal government,
the loans for relief would b retired
by deductions from the states future
federal aid highway funds. These de-
auctions. however, would be limited
to 20 per cent Of the federal aid avail
able.
LANCER Asks Cooperation
He said that Governor LANCER IS
asking needy T. apply for relief
through their county commissions in
orderly fashion under the prescribed
set-up. since al requests for funds
from the r. F. G. must come from
states.
For relief in November and Deem
Der, Frazier said. Burleigh county re-
ceived $500 ana application has been
made for $4,000 for January and
February from the r. r. @. Funds
for January and February should be
here in q few days he said.
In q lengthy talk Taylor declared
"iust because We cannot get work =
no sign we have no right to live. We
have q right to live and If We cam
not get necessities under the present
system, we must organize and take
necessities, not ask for them" He
recommended mass action along this
line rather than individual action.
saying Gin numbers there Is strength"
Stretch concurred with Taylor and
added that farmers and laborers
have been fighting each other when
they should have been working to-
gether." The holiday association Of
fetal said that farmers are using