Show FARM HOMES HELP TO JOBLESS MINERS quakers purchase land for rehabilitation brownsville Browns ville pa the miner who no longer can make a living in the black coal fields may get a chance to rehabilitate himself on farm lands land the american friends service committee a quaker group ha hao purchased acres of land four miles from brownsville Browns ville to r rate ate a program that eventually may rehabilitate thousands of pennsyl vama vania coal miners now unemployed construction work will begin soon on fifty new homes for the first fifty fayette county coal miners farm lies who will be the first to benefit from the large scale rehabilitation am through subsistence farming ed in new trades and the intro of new industries Indu it is hoped that these miners will enjoy a more abundant life the homes are to be sold to de serving families under long term loans made by the american america n friends service committee the soft coal industry was selected foi fol the experiment as the committee carried on work commenced in 1931 2 which the quakers started at the request of president hoover private industry organized labor government officials and philan foundations have endo endorsed reed the project among them are an drew W mellon former secretary of the treasury myron C taylor chairman of the U S steel corpora tion newton D baker former sec see detary of war ernest T weir of national steel corporation gov george H earle of pennsylvania and john L lewis chairman of the committee for industrial tion |