Show EMPLOYMENT DIRECTOR HEARS COMPlAINTS George A Yager Holds Public Meeting at Moab Grievances Aired At the request of several men of Moab who charged that favoritism was being shown to m the employment of workers for C W A and other public projects m in Grand county George A Yager state director of the National employment Re-employment ServIce spent Satur- Satur Saturday Saturday day afternoon at Moab investigating the charges A pUblic meeting was held in the county courthouse at which a number of cItIzens dIssat- dIssat dIssatISfaction dissatisfaction WIth the placement of labor Mr Yager answered numerous ques ques- ques questions and gave n a general outline of the public works act and the procedure that must be followed in the alloca- alloca allocation allocation tion of C W A labor At the outset of the meeting Mr Yager stated that he had just received received ed a telegram from Washington indi- indi indicating cating that C W A operations would be greatly restricted in the future By February 23 he said the states state's quota of C W A labor must be reduced by men The hour IS-hour week will con con- continue and the prevailing wage scale in each community wIll be paid No new projects may employ teams although present projects using teams may con con- continue continue In reducing the C VI A quotas those least needy WIll be laid off first Farmers and men having other re- re resources resources sources must be taken off the C W A payrolls fIrst In the future C W A workers wIll be employed on the basIS of need D A Johnson addressed the meet meet- meeting meeting ing stating that he had asked for the hearing He had no complaint against the work being done by the thc C W A he said nor did he have any criticism to offer against the C W A commIttee He dId complain he said sald against the class of men being employed Many farmers are being employed he declared declared ed and he also charged that farmers and laborers from other counties are being employed He mentioned the name of one mall mair whom he said resided m in San Juan county and who IS a C CW W V A worker at Moab It was brought out that this man had resided contin- contin continuously continuously at Moab for two years Mr l Johnson urged that some system ot of rotation ro- ro rotation tation be devIsed so that all could ed get get Mr Yager stated that rotation or staggering of work ork was vas strIctly against the C W A regulation reg and the fact that such a practice had not been used here indicated to him that the regu- regu regulations regulations lations were being observed in Grand county In many counties he saId workers have been rotated and many subterfuges have hae been used by employ employ- employment ment managers to evade the rules This resulted he said m in the adoption of the hour 15 week He declared that the C W A commit commit- committee committee tee had no authority to select workers That duty rests solely wIth the county manager of the NatIonal employ Re-employ- Reemployment Reemployment ment ServIce A number of men asked questions and offered some crIticism of different phases of the C W A work It was brought out that relief work and C W WA WA A work has been greatly confused Many men whom it was thought were C W A employees had merely been working out relief bills Mr Yager in drawing the meeting to a close talked regarding the general unemployment situation This nation nabon he said must adopt some sort of un- un unemployment unemployment employment insurance and such a bill billis billIs is now before congress Eventually a 3 system similar to one m in use in SV Sweden eden where there are no unemployed must be adopted in the United States The sItuation In this country is not hope hope- hopeless hopeless less he said and if aU all citizens will pull together a workable system can be de- de devised whereby every man who seeks employment may obtain it |