Show Iw w. w P. P A. A Man Defended The following communication was handed in for publication The Tile Man on W. W P. P A. A Copy A.-Copy Copy from Park Record of March 13 13 1936 What a Just thing it will vill be If Harry Hopkins of the thi th W. W P. P A. A In the future enforces his proposed rule viz Iz Those i I persons who are arc definitely inefficient by byI reason I of their loading lack of interest in the tile work careless I i or listless attitude II whether they are the relief on or non- non nonI relief side of the picture should be beI I I singled out and immediately discharged Quote the same issue It is heart break heartbreaking ing ling exasperation to note the deliberate I shirking and natural laziness of scores cf ef worthless W W. P. P A. A A workers I I I Now Dear Editor Editor Can Can you not lm- lm imagine I agine Just how heartbreaking It must be I I for the tho man who has the misfortune to tobe to tobe tobe be a victim of W. W P. P A. A Men in our midst are being forced to work for a aI I wage wago of or forty dollars a month Forced j I I say sa because the edict of W. W P. P A. A is IsI j I work or starve Can you Imagine any any- anything anything anything thing that would drive men to exas exas- exasperation exasperation exasperation so fast as the mere fact that they are working for a pittance that will willI I not provide the barest necessities of life You speak of the listless attitude of I these men Listlessness Is regarded quite generally as one of the first sym sym- symptoms symptoms symptoms of malnutrition a polite p word for forslow slow starvation No one should expect these men to act otherwise quite naturally naturally ally all a no person receiving starvation wages must live on a starvation diet Now suppose we take a stroll around these W. W P. P A. A projects and see sec Just who these men are that are condemned for their natural laziness we will find finda a great many old timers men who have put In long years of toil toll in the mines or mills of Park City Why are they here we ask Because my friends they are arenow arenow now a part of that body of castoffs known as the Industrial These men men have sent enough ore to the smelters during their working years to have spent their reclining years in com com- comfort fort had they received a half Just por por- portion portion portion tion of ot the fruits of their labors But Instead some absentee mining magnate basks in the sunshine of or the Rivera or orsome orsome some like place and the man who dug the mines and built the th mills is re regulated re- re regulated regulated to lo to a condition as bad or worse than the chattel slave of yesterday Can anyone blame a aV W. W P. P A. A worker if 1 he is indifferent or takes no Interest in the work Boondoggling as most W W. I P. P A. A projects are would be perhaps the most uninteresting occupation any man could possibly have llave Place unemployed workers where they belong in the fields the factories and the mines and let them produce food clothing and anti the theother theother theother other comforts of life and we e would find that their shirking would not be noticeable ble In the not so long ago a a. certain Queen of France upon being told the poor have haw no bread br ad to eat wisely remarked Then let them eat cake The poor did not perhaps per aps eat cake but bu they did lop off the head of the queen The men who set up W. W P. P A A. showed about the same amount of wisdom as the late lamented French queen W. W P. P A. A was designed primarily as a means of reducing the I wage levels In America Any person or persons who vho work for a living or who by the nature of their business depends on the working class should realize this and Instead of reviling the man who has lIes been reduced to W. W P. P A. A levels should be resisting the efforts of the Workers Pauperization Administration as It I should be called to lower the standard of the tile American worker to the tile level le of the Chinese coolie L. L L G. G ROBISON Park ParI City Utah March 26 1936 I |