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...Government wants 20,000,000 more people in the war effort than at the time of Pearl Harbor-7,000,000 more for the armed services, 13,000,000 for war industry. Of this 20,000,000 total, it plans to get 1,800,000 from those who were jobless seven months ago, 1,400,000 from young people coming of age, 10,000,000 from civilian industry, 700,000 from the farms, 600,000 by hiring people who used to run small businesses of their own. This leaves a shortage of 5,500,000 that will be made...
...less pressing problem is the local unemployment situation in New York City, caused by declining civilian-goods industries, by the great number of small plants (average 19 workers per shop) and by lack of substitute war industries. There are currently 400,000 jobless, and the number promises to grow larger. McNutt is pessimistic about the chances of doing anything much about the New York situation, because the Army is reluctant to place important war contracts in an area so vulnerable. A peculiar feature of the situation is that serious labor shortages exist in Connecticut, Long Island, and New Jersey...
Employment Service will serve as a national teacher placement agency, steering jobless teachers from glutted areas (e.g., New York City) to the places where shortages exist; 2) a teaching program to salvage the illiterate 10,000,000; 3) a plan to cope with teacher shortages in two critical war subjects-200 colleges and universities will give free courses this summer to convert teachers of other subjects (English, Latin, etc.) into math and physics teachers...
...jobs which the Red Cross now performs for the armed forces: e.g., its staffmen must know accounting, to keep the books for field units; must know how to perform such good deeds as arranging an operation for a soldier's ailing mother, or getting a job for his jobless father...
Conceived in the President's First Inaugural Address, and born in April 1933, CCC had one of the best records of all New Deal hopefuls. From city and farm the Corps rescued thousands of jobless youths. During its busiest month in 1935, it housed as many as 505,782 boys in more than 2,000 camps throughout the nation. Up & down the land, CCCers built roads, carved trails, cleared parks, reforested, learned crafts, fought fires. The most rabid opponents of New Deal spending admitted that CCC was worthwhile...