The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-19

employed IN the social service
division.
Withdrawal on Oct. ! Of all Fed
eral money for direct relief and re-
placement through Works Progress
Administration jobs as a means of
putting the states unemployed on
its own will cause the wholesale
discharge of employees.
Retention of only a skeleton
staff IN the social service depart
ment, apprc- Imately 800 to 400.
will be ne coSary. according TO Off
Gals else to Wayne Coy. director
of the Governors commission. Those
retained :rll check on persons who
ere certified by township trustees
Tor WPA projects.
Beginning at midnight tomorrow
all transients will be refused regis
tration by the state Federal Tran
sient Bureau, WESTINGHOUSE and
Senate-av.
1000 TranSientS Are Affected
R. G.. Werner state transient di-
rector. said his bureau slowly would
be dcmobilized He said 5000 of the
4CO0 tranSients in shelters and
camps in Indiana would be assigned
to WPG projects and private in
duStry.
Mr.. Werner said the bureaus staff
Of 155 employees gradually would be
discharged. Twenty-Five staff en-
ployeS are due to 60 by Oct. l.
With an average of 35 tranSients
registered daily in Marion County
the daily load of wanderers will fall
on private relief agencies and Com
munity Fund organizations of In
diana Mr.. Werner said.
The county shelters. housing and
feeding 1900 men. will be abandoned
when all men are employed by WPA.
Other divisions of the Governor
unemployment Commission will not,
feel the pay roll knife with the
severity of the social service division.
The transition of FERA work to
WPA projects and placing of heads
of families at regular work without
supervision OF social workers will re-
suit in absorption of many clerical
workers and engineers in the WPA
administrative offices. it was said.
Almost all of the clerical help in
the main offices of the Governors
Commission, pit N. Senate-av. will
be absorbed in WPA work.
Officials of the commission see
possibility that some of the ousted
1900 may be placed at work in social
service Investigations by township
trustees.
Burden Falls on Townships
Marion County and Center Town
ship social workers number about
100 and of that number it is be-
Ieved approximately one-half may
be retained by township trustees.
Township trustees of the state
may be burdened this fall with
larger relief rolls If WPA is unable
to place 81 900 employable per-
sons in Indiana.
On Sept l the WPA authorities
had placed 25.5ll heads Of fami-
lies. out of the 81 900 certified by
social service workers. on WPA
projects.
Twelve thousand family heads
had been certified in Marion County
for WPA work with approximately
400G of that number now employed
on government projects.
Wayne Coy in Washington
The drive to effect shift from
FE7A work relief to WPA projects
must be accomplished by Oct l when
al Federal money for relief ceases
and automatically Uncle Sam be-
comes aN employer under WPA. Mr.
Coy is in Washington hurrying
WPA officials in approval of Indi-
ana projects.
officials of the Governors COM
mission fear mat all emplOyable
persons may not be placed on prof.
Gets by Oct. l and thus township re-
lief and that of private agencies will
be necessary to care for the unem-
ployed until the transition from
FERA to WPA is effected.