Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-01-09 | Page 18 | Wpa Workers Protest Cut

VPA WORKERS PROTEST CUT PROVO Protesting the II par ant cut la W P A roils, mora than t 100 W P A workers from all sections t ef Utah county staged a serlss of i meetings and parades- hero Moa- y. ; Workers failed to report at their Job Monday morning, and with the exception of a few scattered workers work-ers who were unappralssd of the , meeting, all major project e la the , county were shut down. Thoss few workers were rapidly being rounded , tip by a contact committee, and by afternoon, officials of the local Worker's Alliance group predicted that no W P A worker would be en ny project In the county. ' Following a mass meeting Monday morning in the lower hall of tbe I city and county building, the group , staged a parade at nooa through : the bustneas district, carrying baa-' baa-' nera protesting the cut, and pointing point-ing out the advantages of the W P A payroll to the county. The group met again Monday ' afternoon at I p. m. on the city i and county building atepe to hear j city, county' and aula officials ex- plain their atanda on the cut. Scheduled Sched-uled as speskers were Darrel! J. f Oreenwell. state W P A admlniatra- tor; W. H. Callahan, director of i the Utah county welfare depart-I depart-I ment; Mayor Mark Anderson of Provo and rspresentattvee of the f Utah county commission and the I Provo chamber of commerce. j This Js not a strike," J. Rulon 1 Edwarda, . president of the local ; Workers' Alliance and chairman of I the meeting, declared, "but a pro-j pro-j test against ths layoff. Ws are asking that every W P A worker ' be reinstated on ths projects on j which they were laid off, however." ; He told the group, "I believe it Is t the eoneensus of opinion of all of tie that all go to work or none of i as go to work."