Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 34 - April/May
Collection: Red Cross Scrapbook 1934
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 34 - April/May
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 April 25th, 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
1934-04-25
1934-05-03
Contributor
Red Cross volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34030
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 34 - April/May,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed May 3, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/89.
Text
"Come on, boys, let’s clean house!”
The group then started crowding into the office, but Bennett arose from his desk and edged the visitors out of the room and then out of the building.
With approximately 2,000 families on the various relief rolls in the county, the registration and investigation necessary to launch the present program is
proving a colossal task, Mrs. Miller explained.
Started Prom Scratch
DEMANDS MADE ON COUNTY BY JOBLESS GROUP
----- 4-25-54
Delegation Visits Comity Board Meeting; Near Riot Here
THEY WANT CASH
Unemployed Dislike Grocery Orders as Relief Payment
The fever of discontent which has been sweeping the ranks of the unemployed in various sections of Kansas during the last two weeks reached into Cowley county Monday as a delegation of Arkansas City jobless presented a series of demands to the board of county commissioners in Winfield and another group created a disturbance which resulted in a near riot at the relief office here Tuesday morning.
Among the demands made upon the county by the delegation, composed of about 75 men, were the payment of county relief in cash rather than in grocery and clothing orders, an increase in the budgets allowed for relief, the elimination of long waits to secure orders, and a more equable distribution of the available federal work relief.
Would Grant Demands
Most of these demands were considered justifiable and steps were taken toward granting them.
Men participating in county work relief will be paid in cash in the future, Mrs. Jesse Miller, county case supervisor, told the group. Blaming the lack of an adequate office force in Arkansas City for the delays, Mrs. Miller also is preparing cards giving the names and the districts covered by case workers and the hours at which they will be in their offices.
No action has been taken upon the demand for a higher budget scale, County Commissioner W. F. Walker said Tuesday.
They’d ‘Clean House’
The disturbance here was started when a group of about 25 men, composed mostly of members of the delegation to Winfield, moved upon the office of L. J. Bennett, assistant poor commissioner, with the announced intention of “cleaning house.”
Crowding around the office door, the men had been backing their leader while he argued with Bennett over the official’s refusal to approve an order for a pair of shoes which would have put the family over its budget. After gaining no satisfaction from the conversation, the man
BELIEF PEIS
Unrest Is A Hayed Here,
At Leas-
pora-
Cowley county-program was-smoothly Wednesday-discontent and-marked the first-week apparently-temporarily.
Unemployed-work against-grocery orders-post's Tuesday-walkout Tuesday-about half of-reported for-A compromise-this disputed-
Miller, county-said Wednesday-told to work-gets but not-ing from March-
Address-Addressing-unemployed in-relief office-Mrs. Miller ex-program, asked-to work and-to the agitation-has been preva-recently.
The crowd well-behaved meeting, Mrs.
Explaining-be accomplish-disturbances,-suggested tha-
presented in a more orderly fashion and said that she would be glad to discuss relief problems with the men.
Cash will be paid for county work relief as well as on federal projects in the future, Mrs. Miller said Wednesday, but able-bodied men will be expected to work out grocery orders received this month. Outstanding balances for the month will be deducted from cash paid for future county work, she said.
Mrs. Miller expects to be able to handle the case work in Arkansas City more satisfactorily after her local staff moves into its new headquarters at 401 South A street. The building will be ready for use early next week. Many complaints have been heard from the unemployed over the waits necessary to receive the case workers’ approval for orders.
“We started far below scratch,” she said, “with no records and little else to go by. Until recently, the relief program had been simply drifting. We have had no anchor upon which to base our program. The attitude in this county has been the worst I have ever encountered. If we can stop some of this agitation from the inside, we can get things running smoothly again in a short while. The outside agitation doesn’t amount to so much. It -itation that is -e work.”
assistant poor--re, said Wednesday--rely cleared his--tening crowd of -ed men in the dis--y morning and-- out of the relief-
MAY 3, 1934
COSTS
-OUNTING
-Ent $11,332 in $5,805 in -arch
-Spent $11,331.98 in -ef for Arkansas -during April, it was -Thursday by L. J. -ant poor commis--This is almost dou--5.70 spent by the March.
-overs only the or--ed for groceries, -uel, Bennett said, and does not include administrative expenses or federal work relief payments, which were reported to have totaled only about $2,000.
The big increase in county expenditures reflects the change in the federal government’s relief agencies from the CWA to the FERA. Only two small federal payrolls, totaling less than $2,000, were distributed here during the month, Bennett said.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook paper.
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 34 - April/May
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 April 25th, 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
1934-04-25
1934-05-03
Contributor
Red Cross volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34030
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 34 - April/May,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed May 3, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/89.Text
"Come on, boys, let’s clean house!”
The group then started crowding into the office, but Bennett arose from his desk and edged the visitors out of the room and then out of the building.
With approximately 2,000 families on the various relief rolls in the county, the registration and investigation necessary to launch the present program is
proving a colossal task, Mrs. Miller explained.
Started Prom Scratch
DEMANDS MADE ON COUNTY BY JOBLESS GROUP
----- 4-25-54
Delegation Visits Comity Board Meeting; Near Riot Here
THEY WANT CASH
Unemployed Dislike Grocery Orders as Relief Payment
The fever of discontent which has been sweeping the ranks of the unemployed in various sections of Kansas during the last two weeks reached into Cowley county Monday as a delegation of Arkansas City jobless presented a series of demands to the board of county commissioners in Winfield and another group created a disturbance which resulted in a near riot at the relief office here Tuesday morning.
Among the demands made upon the county by the delegation, composed of about 75 men, were the payment of county relief in cash rather than in grocery and clothing orders, an increase in the budgets allowed for relief, the elimination of long waits to secure orders, and a more equable distribution of the available federal work relief.
Would Grant Demands
Most of these demands were considered justifiable and steps were taken toward granting them.
Men participating in county work relief will be paid in cash in the future, Mrs. Jesse Miller, county case supervisor, told the group. Blaming the lack of an adequate office force in Arkansas City for the delays, Mrs. Miller also is preparing cards giving the names and the districts covered by case workers and the hours at which they will be in their offices.
No action has been taken upon the demand for a higher budget scale, County Commissioner W. F. Walker said Tuesday.
They’d ‘Clean House’
The disturbance here was started when a group of about 25 men, composed mostly of members of the delegation to Winfield, moved upon the office of L. J. Bennett, assistant poor commissioner, with the announced intention of “cleaning house.”
Crowding around the office door, the men had been backing their leader while he argued with Bennett over the official’s refusal to approve an order for a pair of shoes which would have put the family over its budget. After gaining no satisfaction from the conversation, the man
BELIEF PEIS
Unrest Is A Hayed Here,
At Leas-
pora-
Cowley county-program was-smoothly Wednesday-discontent and-marked the first-week apparently-temporarily.
Unemployed-work against-grocery orders-post's Tuesday-walkout Tuesday-about half of-reported for-A compromise-this disputed-
Miller, county-said Wednesday-told to work-gets but not-ing from March-
Address-Addressing-unemployed in-relief office-Mrs. Miller ex-program, asked-to work and-to the agitation-has been preva-recently.
The crowd well-behaved meeting, Mrs.
Explaining-be accomplish-disturbances,-suggested tha-
presented in a more orderly fashion and said that she would be glad to discuss relief problems with the men.
Cash will be paid for county work relief as well as on federal projects in the future, Mrs. Miller said Wednesday, but able-bodied men will be expected to work out grocery orders received this month. Outstanding balances for the month will be deducted from cash paid for future county work, she said.
Mrs. Miller expects to be able to handle the case work in Arkansas City more satisfactorily after her local staff moves into its new headquarters at 401 South A street. The building will be ready for use early next week. Many complaints have been heard from the unemployed over the waits necessary to receive the case workers’ approval for orders.
“We started far below scratch,” she said, “with no records and little else to go by. Until recently, the relief program had been simply drifting. We have had no anchor upon which to base our program. The attitude in this county has been the worst I have ever encountered. If we can stop some of this agitation from the inside, we can get things running smoothly again in a short while. The outside agitation doesn’t amount to so much. It -itation that is -e work.”
assistant poor--re, said Wednesday--rely cleared his--tening crowd of -ed men in the dis--y morning and-- out of the relief-
MAY 3, 1934
COSTS
-OUNTING
-Ent $11,332 in $5,805 in -arch
-Spent $11,331.98 in -ef for Arkansas -during April, it was -Thursday by L. J. -ant poor commis--This is almost dou--5.70 spent by the March.
-overs only the or--ed for groceries, -uel, Bennett said, and does not include administrative expenses or federal work relief payments, which were reported to have totaled only about $2,000.
The big increase in county expenditures reflects the change in the federal government’s relief agencies from the CWA to the FERA. Only two small federal payrolls, totaling less than $2,000, were distributed here during the month, Bennett said.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook paper.