The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
CWA FORESEEN
AS PERMANENT
U. S. FEATURE
NonCompetitive Work Not
to Check System of
Profits.
Copyright. 1898. by United Press

fCopYriRht. 1888 by United Press
WASHIN TON, Dec. g.
Launched as a stop-gap emergency
effort TO put 100000 men to work,
the civil works administration is re-
garded by some in the administra-
ton as a possible permanent sub
stitute for unemployment insurance
and old age pensions.
Among those holding this view is
Harry NJ. Hopkins, director of
CWA.
Officially the experiment runs
until February Is. Actually the ad-
ministration refuses to think of
turning 100000 men back on
charity in mid-winter. 1t expects
to ask congress for money to carry
on for an extended time.
More than this, Hopkins told the
United Press today he believed that
CWA had possibilities Of becoming
a permanent institution.
Dole Not Favored
1T might easily lead to a scheme
of using civil works as a device for
permanently providing work on i'm
portant public projects for the I'M
employed" he said. The country
is not going to be kindly disposed
to unemployment insurance in terms
Of men going up to a window to
get a dole"
These possibilities have caused
many here to regard the CWA as
one Of the most significant Of the
recovery agencies.
Men could be put to work on
things not naturally in the COM
petitive scheme" Hopkins said. For
instance work like the CCC is doing.
1 am convinced that agency is here
to stay. 1t is doing work in the
forests that never would be done by
private enterprise. There are many
other things of similar nature that
I can't conceive of being done with
in the profits system-such as
drainage of swamps, public health
projects, development of public rec
reation centerS.
Proves Industry Safe
Even in the best times we have
100000 or more men out of work
and a portion Of these could be thus
absorbed and saved from charity.
Then there is a percentage Of old
people, unable to work. They have
no purchasing power for they are
dependent upon charity. Unem-
plOyed who are able to work could
be utilized to produce goods for
those who can not work. Such goods
would go to people who can not buy
anyway and private industry would
lose nothing"
Hopkins, hard driven to put over
one of the most rapid employment
programs in history is not entirely
satisfied with some of the kinds of
work men are being used for on
CWA But in the necessity for
speed, he is not inclined to be so
exacting as he would be later on. In
one month he is trying to put to
work as many people as live in Chi
cago and upward Of half a million
more.
In the long run we must do work
that will be generally approved by
the public as useful" Hopkins said.
lone of our biggest fields is in rec
reation.
I'VE will soon have to prepare for
increased leisure. The shorter work
week is here to stay"
n,,a Of k1Oo ocxyo NJ q flpVi-
BILE setup like CWA, Hopkins be-
lieves. is that if heavy industries
were tagging CWA work could
stimulate them, or emphasis could
be shifted on a geographical basis
to help one section which was de-
pressed. Housing development.
Hopkins believes, may prove one Of
the most useful avenues Of emer-
gency work programs.