THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY,
1937. DECEMBER 1,
EIGHTH DEPRESSION WINTER STARTS WITH 9,000,000 JOBLESS IN UNITED STATES
HUGE SUMS OF MONEY SET ASIDE
FOR RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYED
or Federal sources.
New York.
The United States is entering its eighth winter of depression with 2.000.000 men and women jobless and destilute except for cash and material aid they obtain from state Bitter arctic-like goles that step the greater portion of the nation of the next five months will intensify the suffering of many thousands, al- though the great majority of these depression victims are adequately housed, clothed and fed at tremendous cost to the nation.
Simultaneously, the cost of living the advanced natibly, which adds to borne by the government.
has
This year the Federal government alone plans to spend $1,020,000,000 (D) for relief, In addition to a total destined for of $1,100,000,000 (B3) the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Agricultural Adjustment Administru- tion and pilier agencies which should Indirectly serve to reduce the need for direct relief.
uff-
have been divided into four distinct phases as the government modifled It policy to meet changing conditions, The different phases were:
not balance the increase in Industrial costs have employment and relief actually risen."
Lo
"Mounting rellet costs," National (1) The Federal Rellef Admin-Economy League Bulletin claimed, istration was set up in May, 1933, "are due more the embarking en with an initial appropriation of $500, costly relief experiments than 000,000 and empowered to use half Increasing relief rolls, though relet this appropriation for grants to states rolls themselves have not decreased on the basis of one federal dollar for as rapidly as reemployment has taken every state dollar raised for relief place. The rise in relief costs is purposes and the balance for grants chicily due to the methods used,"
to states whose resources did not enable them to match federal funds for their entire needs.
As problem serious, the experimen became more Joba"
was started by the government. The Civil Works Administration employed jobless un public works and conservation projects while the Federal Relief Administration con- laued its grants to states and also on special projects to embarked teach unemployed not absorbed in the CWA
Relief coals in New York City this year will be the highest in two years. -United Press.
Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, who came hear being born in the United States, who has resigned as Nazi Minister of Economies. Ke has been дра pointed a minister without port-
folio.
ARE GIRLS SNOBS? Need
(3) In 1935, a plan for combined home-relief and work-relief
Works Progress started under the
Although the latter Administration. form of reliet was known to be costiler, the government sought to avoid demoralizing the unemployed by giving them the equivalent of a dole. Emergency conservation work to build a workshop in a resulen through the CCC, drought relief and tial part of Dagenham, revealed
SILK clothing manufacturer fr.
Does Municipality
F. Cull, seeking permission! Super-man?
When a suggestion was made
at
As usual, much of this outlay will be made within the next few months when cold weather will increase dis- tress and necessitate larger expendt tures for warm clothes and fuel.
The government has spent some $14,400.000.000 (U) for rellet and recovery during the past four years, an average of approximately $3,000, 000,000 per year. Of this total, more thon $8,000,000,000 (B) went for phase of direct relief expenditures, including gramme.
(4) With the cost of relief still THAT there are "marts-jobs" for millions of
two employed in public works and con-mounting despite econome improve-
tories close to cervation work. Another was meat throughout the furnished by state and local govern final stage was reached the another at Leyton, Essex. The Works Progress Administration
a "super-man.". ments for the same purpose,
swung into full operation of a vast girls at one, feeling superior to
Dr. K. K. Pathy said he thought it relief programme which completely the girls at the other, asked
states. their employer to alter their was necessary to have such an officer supplanted grants in aid to The Federal Government undertook meal times and finishing times as he would save "considerable dim-
spend $5,000,000 (B) in
culties." some 3,500,000 so that they could avoid mixing providing jobs for persons, estimated to be able and with the other girls. willing to work if jobs were provided for them.
ural rehabilitation dominated his at a Ministry of Health inquiry the Municipal Budget meeting that
the government'ts pro- | recently:—
To ald in obinining a comprehensive picture of unemployment all over the country, the government this autumn mailed more than 31,000,000 questionnaires to men and women through the country, asking them to give the nature of Jobs previously hold, if they had any specialized training. If they had any dependents and the conditions under which they lived,
in
country, the
when
a fully quailfled officer should be In control of all the municipal engineer- facing departments and act as adviser to the President, it was pointed out that such an officer would have to be
one
"We have very efficient officers in charge of the various engineering
Some quarters felt, however, that THAT he did not think he departments," he added, "but zel this programine was not a success
could get the type of
resultant
when a matter of centralised control
minister and be adviser to us." have a qualified engineer to ad-
He added that such an oppointment had existed some time ago, but the post had been abolished as it did not appear to have its fully desired effect. the Com- consider missioners should
the He, however, thought question again next year."
"The work of the engineering,
Criticism against the government's and pointed out that unemployment girl he wanted in the local in-s broached, it might be prudent to
had falled to decrease in proportion dustrial zone because "without relief programme has been based on the enormous cost of work-rellet pro- to industrial recovery.
"The project has not worked out attempting to be snobbish wel jects, such as the construction of roads, conservation work, educational as we intended," the October bulletin have a superior type to that em- and nubile recreation facilities, publie of the New York Trust Comany raid. ployed in a factory or laundry." buildings, water and sewage systems "Relief rolls have not decreased as and rural resettlement. Opponents we predicted, with
"nade-work" reiler, burden on state and local govern- THAT "the average girl hold that necessitating the purchase ot ments becoming heavier instead materials is the most expensive form lightre. Statistics of air in the needy and that the number of cases (familles or single sooner be something in the City brnents of such publle works have persons) on direct relief or absorbed or Weat End than be a machin-water, electric and not compensated for the extra out lay,
DIFFERENT PHASES Expenditures for relief in the United States over the past four years
show that
worker would
of the
far
in various Federal Works Projects ist in her own locality. Leyton are no widely varied," "pilled the "that declined from 4,000,000 in August is nearer to the City than President, Mr. W. Bartley. 1935 to 1,300,000 in August 1836 and Dagenham, and that is why it is mounted again to 1,710,000 in docs difficult to get labour." 1937. This decline, however,
May
nothing short of a super-man will be
of any great value as a co-ordinated head of the engineering departments."
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