Show THE DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY ROUND GO GO ROUND Trado Mark By Drew Pearson and Robert S. S Allen Authors of or Washington Merry Go and ond More Round Oo W WASHINGTON Getting WASHINGTON Getting a Civil Works Administration Administration Ad Ad- ministration job has now pretty much boiled down to a question of luck politics or personal pull The obvious jobs jobs cleaning cleaning refuse dumps repairing roads raking leaves beautifying parks now now arc are in full swing with more than enough men on them But in addition several thousand men still stin arc are standing in line still hoping for tor work This hAs hns taxed the ingenuity of C W w A officials entrusted with the creation of jobs and they have put their men to work on every conceivable conceivable con con- form of work One C 0 W A employer in the Geological Survey Survey Sur Sur- vey for instance ordered a shelf of or books moved from one side of the room to the other and suggested that a week was necessary to do it Or take the case of one of Washington's prosperous once-prosperous insurance men In better days he sported his own limousine his winter home in m Florida and had a keen ey eye for lor or feminine charm Long destitute he now came canic out of the C W V A office radiant and beaming C 0 W V A officials had found him a unique job HIm firm getting seventy cents an hour on this he boasted and fland its it's better than beggin or starving I Ive I've ye got a job counting couling traffic at a street intersection and Im I'm in ma ina a great hurry You Youcan Youcan Youcan can get the same thing Just go right up and insist NO POLITICS Insistence no longer counts in getting a C W A job however The stage has been reached in all nIl job-hunting job where political pull counts heavily In fact until President Roosevelt Issued Issued is issued Is- Is sued a confidential instruction to eliminate politics politics poli poli- tics from the C 0 W V A it had become a neat pa patronage patronage pa- pa racket for Commissioner Allen of the District of Columbia Get a letter from your senator said Allen who learned his politics from Pat Harrison of Mississippi If your yom senator is behind you we may be able to do something The men standing in line though dwindling in in f number have become more intense in their bitterness The whole thing is a lot of dirty politics said an on marine ex corps sergeant They are taking people who got drag while the rest of us with 23 years of honorable service on our record get about as much consideration as common street bums There is a definite difference however between between be be- tween the average type in the C W A line pleading for tor jobs and those who frequent the regular relief lines The first retain at least a spark of hope for the future But with the latter latter lat lat- lat lat- ter all alt hope is dead NEW HOPE In the ordinary breadlines two ages of men the predominate the very young and the very old There are the youngsters in their teens who got shoved out of large families because they were most able to shift for tor themselves and who have been haunting the jungles and the relief missions missions missions mis mis- ever since And there are the older men who long since have given up the idea o of employment employment employment em em- and have reduced bumming to a science Most of them depend upon missions for their food and lodging and resort to stemmIng stemming stem ming thing it panhandling for movies and liquor In the pocket of one youngster receiving receiving ing relief food during the holidays were ticket stubs from five Washington picture houses But in the OW A job line it is different There ere the men center around middle age Most of them are in the prime of their lives the lives the war veteran age of 35 to 45 More white collar workers work work- ers era are aro sprinkled among them more mote people whose savings have vanished whose regular jobs evaporated from under them and who are relying desperately upon the Civil Works Administration Administration Administration Ad Ad- ministration despite its petty inefficiencies and occasional politics to provide the economic bridge by which they may come back For Formost Formost Formost most of these the New Deal is New Hope IMPENDING CHANGE The labor advisory board is one agency of the N R A which has experienced no change in its original personnel Every other division of the recovery organization has passed through upheavals upheaval some of them violent But the L LAB A B has bas continued its pristine purity Now however an important change im- im Dr Leo economist educator labor abor counselor has tendered his resignation to General Hugh S. S Johnson Between n Johnson and there is no dissension Friends from the World war days they have worked together in closest harmony Johnson is exerting every effort to pers persuade ade to remain But between and certain of the A. A F. F of L L. leaders on his bis board a wide rift has gradually developed Volman like Johnson favors organizing workers in industrial unions that is all the workers iz in an industry regardless regardless regardless regard regard- less of crafts associated in one organization The A. A F. F of L. L moguls except Bill Green Green draw draw fat salaries as heads of craft or trade unions and violently oppose such unification For them it would mean the loss of good jobs Therefore with coding operations practically practical practical- ly completed and the administrative phase o of N R It A in full swing proposes to return to his previous work in New York City C 0 The new vaults in the treasury now approaching approaching ap ap- ap completion are re reported to have been built for silver storage A large inflow of the metal is expected Copyright 1934 by United Feature Syndicate Inc |