Evening star., 1935-10-25

private charity nor Government relief
wants to continue to help people who
can work but who won't work. There
is only one legitimate excuse for un-
willingness to work, and that Is pad
health or advanced age"
Gerard Swope, chairman OF the
mobilization, spoke from Detroit on
the same program. saying the good
neighbor" policy was the motto Tor
the drive.
With the Government turning the
task of direct relief over to States and
communities, Swope said, the service
needed from private agencies will in
evitably be increased during this period
Of transition"
Meanwhile, both public and private
employment are swinging upward With
Government spending and better busi-
ness conditions. However, experts
contend these gains do not necessar-
ily spell corresponding reductions IN
the total of the unemployed, for the
number of "employables' is increasing
all the time as young people grow up.
Secretary of Labor Perkins report
that $50 900 workers had found jobs
in manufacturing and non-manufac-
turing industries in September, brings
the factory employment index up to
s3.e per cent of the 1923-1e25 level,
or the highest it had reached in five
years.
SURVEY Covers Half Field.
Her estimate of $4,000 new work.
ers in private industry covered about
half the field of possible employment.
1t did not include agricultural, trans
portation, domestic % permanent
public workers. .
A similar increase in jobs among
these other workers would have
doubled the 350,0OO figure, but Fed
eral officials did not attempt to esti-
development.
To administration officials, one of
the most encouraging details of the
Perkins report was 25 per cent gain
in pay rolls over September, 1884, in
manufacturing industries, though en-
ployment increased only 10.1 per cent.
Miss Perkins reported that of the
$4,000 new jobs in September over
August, about 10000 were found in
the manufacturing industries and an
equal number in retail trade.
Administration officials, who origi-
nally aimed to complete by November
l the task of transferring 3,500,00O
persons from the dole" to work relief,
now say they will end the dole by
December J..
Harry L. Hopkins, works progress
administrator, declined to estimate
how many would be at work by No.
vember l, the original deadline, but
he emphatically asserted that well
be able to abolish all relief to the
States during November"
The last w. P. A. report showed
that Of 1,310,733 at work, 594, ,427 were
on works progress projects proper,
1858 were on other Federal prof.
ects and 582, 2,648 were in the Civilian
Conservation Corps.
Workers Are Concentrated.
Geographically, outside the C. c. c.
camps, the great bulk of the workers
were concentrated in the East and
South. The Northeastern States down
to Pennsylvania and Maryland had
10000 at work, while the South, East
of the Mississippi had $4,000 on work
relief jobs.
The North Central States stretching
from Ohio and Michigan west to Ne
braska and Kansas had a total Of
10000 works progress jobs; the
Northwest from the Dakotas to the
coast, $4,000; the Central Southwest,
from Arkansas and Louisiana to Cali
fornia, 10000.
In discussing the relief outlook,
Hopkins reported there were 6.8 per
cent fewer families on relief in Sep
tember than in August. He said the
drop was from 3,500,573 to 3,263,199,
and added that Federal and local ex-
penditures declined 1871 per cent from
$148,s63, ,o94 to s121 ,956,299.
Hopkins said his Works Progress
Administration would spend its entire
quota of the $4,000,0O0, 900 works fund
about s1,250 0000, ,Oo0-by next June
80. He conceded that other agencies
may have some money obligated but
unspent, and hinted that allotments
to slower-moving spenders may be re-
duced.
He acknowledged that one-fifth Of
the families now on relief are un-
employables, but denied that this
marked failure Of six-month drive
announced last December to force
States and communities to provide for
those unable to work.
Hopkins explained that many unem-
ployable families are counted on re-
lief rolls although they now are sup
ported entirely by local governments.
He added that States have between
$500,000000 and $600000,0O0 for this
purpose for this year.