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Show Massmeeting Held In Attempt ! To Clear Up Local Dissatisfaction j i Discussion Participated In By County Heads of thej C. V. A. and Re-Employment Services Shows i Number of Cards Is Sole Deciding Factor ( i And merrily the battle of cards v'oes on! 1m this ease the cards are those signed by the unemployed of the county, duly filed with the Beaver Bea-ver county headquarters of the national re-employment service, and utilized as C. YV. A. projects are ap-! proved and set in motion. j Supposedly with the aim of clearing' up misunderstood matters, a public pub-lic massmeeting was held in the L. D. S. recreation hall Wednesday evening eve-ning of this week on the initiative of Theodore Bohn, C. W. A. disbursing i agent for Beaver county, and Joseph A. Manzione, manager of the federal re-employment service for this coun- ty. The meeting was one of the largest attended in the history of Milford and the huge crowd present was no' doubt due to the expectation that matters of dispute and misunderstanding' misunder-standing' between the Beaver headquarters head-quarters and the west part of the county would be cleared up. But little was accomplished except to make absolutely clear the fact that the quantity of cards signed per community com-munity is the governing factor in the allocation of men and women to participate par-ticipate in C. W. A. disbursements, a policy that has been decidedly unfair un-fair and has worked a real hardship as applied to Milford people. The real need of a registered person and official population figures seem to count for nothing, and there likewise seems to be no distinction made between be-tween the occupationally unemployed and the seasonally idle, the latter of whom will be found in large numbers during the winter season in any farming community. It is true that a truce of some! duration was interposed at Wednes-, day's meeting to permit Mr. Manzione Man-zione entertaining( ?) the fast tiring audience with considerable more or, less ancient history, including a colorful recital of hia personal; acquaintance with Milford and Mil-j ford old-timers in the old saloon days, but the lull in the battle was only temporary and soon the meeting was back to the moot question of "cards, cards who's signed the most cards?" 1 L. G. Clay presided as chairman of j the meeting Wednesday evening and Mr. Bohn and Mr. Manzione occupied a large part of the time presenting: explanations and figures so much; of the time, in fact, that a consider- J able part of the audience had left the; hall before the meeting was thrown j open to discussion, at which time a few bits of definite information and enlightenment were brought out., Most of the figures given and thej quotations from letters either ap-, pear in this week's letter from Man-j zione or last week's letter from Mr.. Bohn. Both appear in the respective ; issues of The Xews, so it is needless to repeat them here. i The definite accomplishments of I the meeting, however, came with the! pointed remarks and ciuestions which' came later. Mayor 0. F. Hubbell, a; member of the original employment' service committee for the county, ofj which he was the only Milford mem- j ber while five of the committee ofj seven, plus the manager, were fromj Beaver, said that he had thought at first that he had some status as a committeeman but stood fully en-j lightened now by Mr. Manzione's own statement that he had been merely a part of the office-finder machinery in behalf of Mr. Manzione. Man-zione. On the subject of the incompleteness incom-pleteness of Milford's unemploy-; ment registration, Mayor Hubbell stated that the office had not been able to supply him with cards on two or three occasions when he had gone to Beaver to secure a supply and had a letter from the office supporting him in this claim. J. C. Smith, cashier of the Milford State bank, asked the pointed question ques-tion of how Manzione came to be meddling with the employment affairs af-fairs of another county, referring to the Pine valley desert range research project, sponsored by the forest service, ser-vice, the site of which camp happens to he in Millard county! Mr. Smith told of the original arrangement by which several of the men employed there did go from Minersville and Milford, in accordance with the suggestion sug-gestion of a Beaver City member of the original relief committee. Some of the men employed there, however, had been from Beaver, Mr. Smith said, and Mr. Manzione admitted thia despite his statement published else-j where in this issue of The News that' east Beaver county was completely! ignored, prior to January 1. j Senator George Jefferson asked Manzione for a "yes", or "no" answer and got it "yes" to the question of whether or not this C.! W. A. work was primarily intended! lor the industrially unemployed, a( point which has heretofore been em-: ' phasized by The News, together with j quotations from George A. Yager,1 state re-employment director, bears' out this view of the matter. i j Mrs. A. C. Johnson, president of ; the local L. D. S. Relief society and; i an indefatigable worker in local relief re-lief matters another hard worker j 1 without pay had Mr. Bohn flounder-i flounder-i ing for explanations of the non-pay-1 i ment of local women workers after! ! verbal agreements to do so, and1 ' presented some of the other trying; 'problems which have helped to lead I to the growing feeling of resentment; ! and dissatisfaction. Dr. C. R. Parrishj I also asked several questions, especi-i especi-i ally concerning the county nurse set-' j up, by which Beaver picked off bothj i the nurses alloted to this county,! j brought about, the visitors said, because be-cause Milford had no nursing projects pro-jects approved and ready when thej nurse allocation was received. Justj how advance notice of such matters! might be secured when information furnished the county headquarters. was not passed on and no meetings ' were held was not cleared up. j Near the conclusion of the meeting) : a question as to when a newi j alignment of C. W. A. quotas in Bea-j ver county might be expected was asked and Mr. Bohn replied that this might be done about February 15, at which time new allocations of men and women workers to this county; may be forthcoming from state head-j quarters. |