Red Cross Scrapbook 1934 : page 14 - January/March
Collection: Red Cross Scrapbook 1934
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934 : page 14 - January/March
Subject
Great Depression, 1929-1939
American Red Cross
Food relief--Kansas
Unemployment
Description
A page from the 1934 scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, dated from January 11th, 1934 to March 14th, 1934. The scrapbooks were created by local Red Cross volunteers. Articles during the Depression years covered food and other relief efforts, and documented unemployment issues.
Creator
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler
Source
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Publisher
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Date
1934-01-11
1934-03-02
1934-03-07
1934-03-08
1934-03-14
Contributor
Red Cross volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34013
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934 : page 14 - January/March,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed April 20, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/73.
Text
Unemployed Group Makes Charges Against Hepler
Charging that unfair tactics are being used in distributing civil works employment in Cowley county, a committee representing a faction of Arkansas City’s unemployed has called a public meeting Friday night in the city building to protest the policies of Ed Hepler, Winfield, chairman of the county reemployment committee.
Seven accusations are made against Mr. Hepler in the committee’s announcement of the meeting. The report is signed by George Sharkey, R. C. Gelvin, Jim Goyan, Virgil A. Bruner and Jim Low, former CWA workers who lost their jobs during an attempted rotation plan about two months ago.
Hepler is charged with “not being fair in distributing so-called white-collared jobs,” and with “playing politics in the selections for such positions.”
300 Removed
“Further,” the announcement continues, “through his dictatorial management he has removed some 300 heads of families who are in dire need from the work relief, and he refused to replace them.
“Again, he is attempting to remove practically all offices pertaining to civil works to Winfield, which we feel is unfair to this part of the county.”
Mr. Hepler also is charged with “usurping authority not dedicated to his particular position, and attempting to play the role of a dictator.”
C. B. Tingley of Arkansas City, vice-chairman of the reemployment committee, said Thursday that there was no sectional dissension in the group and that he believed the CWA program was being conscientiously administered in the county.
UNEMPLOYED men who are participating in the county’s work relief project will be given credit j for their work at the rate of 40 cents an hour instead of the previously announced schedule of 30 cents, it was announced here Wednesday. Every able-bodied man whose family is receiving county grocery orders is expected to work in exchange for the aid. About 125 Arkansas Cityans are listed on the project. Grocers must submit their county bills by Mar. 27 if they expect payment on Apr. 1, Assistant Poor Com-missioner E. E. Smith said Wednesday.
CALL MEETING
FOR A PROTEST
Continued from Page 1, Col. 7
There were 742 civil works employes in the Arkansas City district this week and 494 in the Winfield area. The county quota of 1,2.36 jobs is divided so as to give the southern half of the county 60 per cent of the jobs and the northern half 40 per cent, in accordance with the division of unemployment when the CWA program was put into effect.
Registration of unemployed has spurted rapidly in the Winfield office during the last few weeks until the total now exceeds that in Arkansas City which until recently had been far larger. There were 1,894 unemployed registered in Winfield this week, as compared with 1,770 in Arkansas City.
The present agitation is understood to have started after a report had been received here, sup- posedly from reliable sources, that a policy of dividing the 1,-236 jobs equally between the northern and southern halves of the county would be adopted in the near future.
The charge that Mr. Hepler arbitrarily removed 300 men from their CWA jobs arises from the unsuccessful attempt to inaugurate a rotation plan in the county. The 300 workers were withdrawn, supposedly temporarily, and 300 others were substituted. Then rotation was declared illegal by the state administrator and the plan was halted. The substitute workers could not be removed, as discharging any CWA employe without cause is illegal, so the men that were withdrawn lost their jobs permanently. Mr. Hepler has no authority to replace them except as vacancies occur in the quota.
Friday night’s meeting will start at 7:15 o’clock.
Bids For Sewing Room Arkansas City and Winfield merchants will have the opportunity to bid on materials to be used by the sewing rooms, the bids to be sent to Mrs. Louise Steinberg, supervisor, by Friday morning, Mrs. Steinberg said Thursday morning. The sewing room projects received $200 of the $2,600 given to the county by the Winfield city commissioners at their meeting Wednesday. The money will be divided equally between Arkansas City and Winfield, with the merchant in Arkansas City whose bid is accepted receiving a $100 order, and one in Winfield getting the other $100 order.
The materials to be purchased include sheeting, toweling, unbleached muslin, dress print, thread and buttons. Most of the sheeting, toweling and unbleached muslin will be used to stock the county jail, Mrs. Steinberg said.
The remainder of the $2,600 will go to the county poor farm fund, L. L. Petticord, CWA supervisor said.
Will Increase Hours of CWA From 15 to 24
The county civil works administration is planning to expand its working week Friday from 15 to 24 hours for all employes living in Arkansas City and Winfield, it was reported here Wednesday. The state office has approved the change.
Under the new interpretation of the CWA rules, the residence of the employes will determine the length of time they are allowed to work, men living in cities of more than 2,500 being given a 24-hour week and those living in smaller towns and the country a 15-hour week. When the straight 30-hour week was reduced about six weeks ago, the sponsorship of the projects was taken to be the deciding factor, city projects being operated on a 24-hour basis and county jobs on a 15-hour basis.
The change will bring nine hours more work a week to more than 300 persons now employed on county projects.
Cowley county will lose about 180 employes in this week’s reduction, with the Arkansas City district scheduled for a net reduction of about 100 jobs. There are 400 persons on this week’s CWA payroll here.
The federal government is donating 180 blankets to help keep Arkansas City’s needy families warm during the cold early spring nights. Distribution of the heavy, part-wool blankets was started Friday at the local relief office. They are being given to families with more than two members who are receiving direct relief from the county. _________ 3-2-34
CALL MEETING
FOR A PROTEST
1-11-34
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook page
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934 : page 14 - January/March
Subject
Great Depression, 1929-1939
American Red Cross
Food relief--Kansas
Unemployment
Description
A page from the 1934 scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, dated from January 11th, 1934 to March 14th, 1934. The scrapbooks were created by local Red Cross volunteers. Articles during the Depression years covered food and other relief efforts, and documented unemployment issues.
Creator
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler
Source
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Publisher
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Date
1934-01-11
1934-03-02
1934-03-07
1934-03-08
1934-03-14
Contributor
Red Cross volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34013
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934 : page 14 - January/March,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed April 20, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/73.Text
Unemployed Group Makes Charges Against Hepler
Charging that unfair tactics are being used in distributing civil works employment in Cowley county, a committee representing a faction of Arkansas City’s unemployed has called a public meeting Friday night in the city building to protest the policies of Ed Hepler, Winfield, chairman of the county reemployment committee.
Seven accusations are made against Mr. Hepler in the committee’s announcement of the meeting. The report is signed by George Sharkey, R. C. Gelvin, Jim Goyan, Virgil A. Bruner and Jim Low, former CWA workers who lost their jobs during an attempted rotation plan about two months ago.
Hepler is charged with “not being fair in distributing so-called white-collared jobs,” and with “playing politics in the selections for such positions.”
300 Removed
“Further,” the announcement continues, “through his dictatorial management he has removed some 300 heads of families who are in dire need from the work relief, and he refused to replace them.
“Again, he is attempting to remove practically all offices pertaining to civil works to Winfield, which we feel is unfair to this part of the county.”
Mr. Hepler also is charged with “usurping authority not dedicated to his particular position, and attempting to play the role of a dictator.”
C. B. Tingley of Arkansas City, vice-chairman of the reemployment committee, said Thursday that there was no sectional dissension in the group and that he believed the CWA program was being conscientiously administered in the county.
UNEMPLOYED men who are participating in the county’s work relief project will be given credit j for their work at the rate of 40 cents an hour instead of the previously announced schedule of 30 cents, it was announced here Wednesday. Every able-bodied man whose family is receiving county grocery orders is expected to work in exchange for the aid. About 125 Arkansas Cityans are listed on the project. Grocers must submit their county bills by Mar. 27 if they expect payment on Apr. 1, Assistant Poor Com-missioner E. E. Smith said Wednesday.
CALL MEETING
FOR A PROTEST
Continued from Page 1, Col. 7
There were 742 civil works employes in the Arkansas City district this week and 494 in the Winfield area. The county quota of 1,2.36 jobs is divided so as to give the southern half of the county 60 per cent of the jobs and the northern half 40 per cent, in accordance with the division of unemployment when the CWA program was put into effect.
Registration of unemployed has spurted rapidly in the Winfield office during the last few weeks until the total now exceeds that in Arkansas City which until recently had been far larger. There were 1,894 unemployed registered in Winfield this week, as compared with 1,770 in Arkansas City.
The present agitation is understood to have started after a report had been received here, sup- posedly from reliable sources, that a policy of dividing the 1,-236 jobs equally between the northern and southern halves of the county would be adopted in the near future.
The charge that Mr. Hepler arbitrarily removed 300 men from their CWA jobs arises from the unsuccessful attempt to inaugurate a rotation plan in the county. The 300 workers were withdrawn, supposedly temporarily, and 300 others were substituted. Then rotation was declared illegal by the state administrator and the plan was halted. The substitute workers could not be removed, as discharging any CWA employe without cause is illegal, so the men that were withdrawn lost their jobs permanently. Mr. Hepler has no authority to replace them except as vacancies occur in the quota.
Friday night’s meeting will start at 7:15 o’clock.
Bids For Sewing Room Arkansas City and Winfield merchants will have the opportunity to bid on materials to be used by the sewing rooms, the bids to be sent to Mrs. Louise Steinberg, supervisor, by Friday morning, Mrs. Steinberg said Thursday morning. The sewing room projects received $200 of the $2,600 given to the county by the Winfield city commissioners at their meeting Wednesday. The money will be divided equally between Arkansas City and Winfield, with the merchant in Arkansas City whose bid is accepted receiving a $100 order, and one in Winfield getting the other $100 order.
The materials to be purchased include sheeting, toweling, unbleached muslin, dress print, thread and buttons. Most of the sheeting, toweling and unbleached muslin will be used to stock the county jail, Mrs. Steinberg said.
The remainder of the $2,600 will go to the county poor farm fund, L. L. Petticord, CWA supervisor said.
Will Increase Hours of CWA From 15 to 24
The county civil works administration is planning to expand its working week Friday from 15 to 24 hours for all employes living in Arkansas City and Winfield, it was reported here Wednesday. The state office has approved the change.
Under the new interpretation of the CWA rules, the residence of the employes will determine the length of time they are allowed to work, men living in cities of more than 2,500 being given a 24-hour week and those living in smaller towns and the country a 15-hour week. When the straight 30-hour week was reduced about six weeks ago, the sponsorship of the projects was taken to be the deciding factor, city projects being operated on a 24-hour basis and county jobs on a 15-hour basis.
The change will bring nine hours more work a week to more than 300 persons now employed on county projects.
Cowley county will lose about 180 employes in this week’s reduction, with the Arkansas City district scheduled for a net reduction of about 100 jobs. There are 400 persons on this week’s CWA payroll here.
The federal government is donating 180 blankets to help keep Arkansas City’s needy families warm during the cold early spring nights. Distribution of the heavy, part-wool blankets was started Friday at the local relief office. They are being given to families with more than two members who are receiving direct relief from the county. _________ 3-2-34
CALL MEETING
FOR A PROTEST
1-11-34
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook page