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Show Find Farm Homes Help to Jobless Miners s Quakers Purchase Land for Rehabilitation. Brownsville, Pa. The miner who no longer can make a living in the black coal fields may get a chance to rehabilitate himself on farmlands. farm-lands. The American Friends Service committee, a Quaker group, has purchased 200 acres of land four miles from Brownsville to inaugurate inaugu-rate a program that eventually may rehabilitate thousands of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania coal miners now unemployed. Construction work will begin soon on fifty new homes for the first fifty Fayette county coal miners' families fami-lies who will be the first to benefit from the large-scale rehabilitation program. Through subsistence farming, education ed-ucation in new trades and the introduction intro-duction of new industries, it is hoped that these miners will enjoy a more abundant life. The homes are to be sold to deserving de-serving families under long-term loans made by the American Friends Service committee. The soft coal industry was selected for the experiment, as the committee carried on work commenced in 1931-32, 1931-32, which the Quakers started at the request of President Hoover. Private industry, organized labor, government officials and philanthropic philan-thropic foundations have endorsed the project. Among them are Andrew An-drew W. Mellon, former secretary of the treasury; Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the U. S. Steel corporation; corpora-tion; Newton D. Baker, former secretary sec-retary 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 Organization. |