Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-01-23 | Page 8 | City to Hire Road Gangs

I CITY CITY TO HIRE ROAD GANGS Three Day Shifts to Be Adopted As Aa Relief Measure The Tho first step tep toward tO l ard a the unemployment lIon In Ogden was taken today by Maor ta or orP P F Kirkendall and ond members membern ot of the city commission when w- w wn n they decided decide upon a plan to put shifts ot of men to work upon the citY streets for Cor or periods ot of o three day each the shifts then so that a great number of ot nen can get temporary relief relict A shift ot of o 20 0 men b 1 i now at work snow V and a second will alit relieve relle them Monday morning for tor a diy clay I orl period In Investigation I Is made of ot the tho applicants by A T Hestmark city purchasing agent an and those Are arc rc selected whose families are I In Immediate need They ore uro then divided into groups of t 20 0 o und and notified when they begin I their three three-do three day period The Mon Mon- Monday Mon Mon- Monday Monday day shift Hill aIR work ork until Wed Wednesday Sd- Sd ed- ed evening and on Thu morning the new shift will re- re relIe rc lIe hose e the first There There- Thereafter Thereafter after p the shifts shift will nill be lie changed esery three Ill dais s sr r Through this plan It is ex- ex exI expected cx ex I that a large number of or I men out ot of employment may be hen gisen at least temporary relief relict The Tho shift work lork will wili as long as work ork can be found and t they hey will bo be assigned to sarious arlous duties on the streets In parks cemeteries and other city prop prop- property erty It I Is hoped that tee shift systeM may bring the re- re relief re relief lief lIet until warmer armer temperatures come and the unemployment sit sit- situation ua sll is less acute T The Investigation n Is carried on ga sels n so 50 that a an men whose t families in inI I dire distress may be gh given tn the tint first for tor or th the work ork