Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-03-03
Council Acts
On Emergency
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Jobs For The Jobless
Following the action on emer-
gency relief orders, Mr.. Gosser
again took the floor to discuss
with City Council the problem of
our unemployed.
"I'm told that right now there
are between 10000 to $4,000
people in our community who
are without jobs" the UAW-
CIO leader declared. THAT con-
dition places a grave response
bility on the shoulders of our
City Council. Because" Mr. Cos
ser continued, somehow we
have to find jobs for these peo-
pie. And that no one else can do,
to begin with, but City Council
itself. / know that it might be
pretty hard, even impossible to
find jobs for all of our $4,000
jobless people. But that shouldn't
stop uncil from getting on
with as many jobs as they can
dig up"
City Improvements Suggested
Mr.. Gosser then went on to
say that there are lot of things
that City Council can do by way
of initiatingsa large public works
program.
"We need a lot of grade elm
nations; we need a lot of play
grounds for our children; we
need several public swimming
pools and we certainly can do a
lot of work on our streets and
in particular on improving our
sewage system. Why" Mr.. Cos
ser declared emphatically, "all
my life I've lived on the west
side and every year we are near
ly flooded out because we don't
have the proper draining system.
These are things that City Coun-
Gil can pay attention to imme-
diately and, what is more, start
doing something about them at
once. These things would mean
jobs for our people. And jobs
are much better than relief"
Hits Payroll Committee
In the course of his discussion
Mr. Gosser referred to the motor
ious "Save Toledo Payrolls Com
mittee".
"Where is this famous Save
Payrolls Committee now" he
asked sardonically. "Why don't
they come forth now and create
the jobs, or at least save some of
the jobs for our people now? If
these people were satisfied with
a profit return of 1907 on some
of their Toledo operations and
not seek 250% in some unor-
ganized small town then they
wouldn't be moving jobs out of
our city"
Mr.. Gosser also suggested that
Mayor Disable seek State and
Federal financial aid In starting
these projects.
II assure you," Mr.. Gosser de-
clared, "that our organization
stands ready to join any commit
tee appointed by this city admin
istration and 60 with them to
Columbus, to Washington or any
where else to add our voice to
yours in seeking help for our
needy people"
Mayor DiSalle's Program
At this point, Mayor Michael
v. Disable, democratic candidate
for u. S. Senate in the coming
elections, pointed out that he has
already appointed special COM
mittee to Cd develop as fast as
possible the City's public works
program to give jobs to our peo
pie" and (2) appointed another
committee to develop program
that would induce manufacturers
from other areas to come to To-
ledo thus to create additional
jobs"
Mayor Disable pointed out also
that thus far City Council, "in
its first sixty days of existence"
has appropriated about four mil
lion dollars for public improve
ments "such as Mr.. Gosser was
talking about. 1t was pointed
out that most of these jobs were
being held up because of wealth
er conditions.
To Create Full Employment
Committee
'In addition to the two Coun-
ell subcommittee that have al
ready been appointed and which
are already working in their re-
spective fields" Mayor Disable
continued, II intend to ask LMC
to form itself into a Full EN-
ployment Committee to further
develop and facilitate this pro-
gram"
"All that sounds nice, Mike"
Mr.. Gosser declared as he clos
ed his arguments to City Coun-
Gil, "but want to see people 60
ing to work and to this day |
don't see them doing that. Don't
forget 1t is the responsibility of
this City Council to protect the
welfare of our people"
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