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Before the gates of Ford Motor Co.'s plant at Dearborn, Mich., ten thousand jobless men last week rioted wildly, stoned police. State employment officials at Chicago reported two jobs for every five applicants. In New York breadlines grew longer and longer. A 20-year record for sheltering men, women and children at the Municipal Lodging House was broken. Employment at the Brooklyn Navy Yard hit rock bottom when the U. S. laid off 1,156 skilled workmen, one-third of the yard's force. Meanwhile businessmen waited for the predicted industrial pickup...
...week in Virginia which has no anti-hitch-hiking law occurred just the sort of thing U. S. motorists have been told may happen if they pick up strangers. Charles Latham of Manhattan, driving out of Knoxville, Tenn., gave a ride to a stranger who said he was a jobless bus operator. Latham let him spell him at the wheel. Suddenly the stranger flipped out a revolver, shot Latham through the side. When Latham attempted to jump from the car, the stranger ordered him back, beat him over the head, drove the car on to Christiansburg, Va., where he escaped...
Through the press last week flowed two contradictory currents of news on industrial unemployment. One current ran uphill to large headlines proclaiming a quick return to Prosperity. The other ran down- hill to accounts of breadlines and jobless distress. Behind headlines for prosperity was sound Republican politics to minimize and gloss over unemployment. Behind breadlines for the jobless was equally sound Democratic politics to blame the party in power for a serious labor slump...
SUBWAY WORK SEEN AS QUICK AID TO JOBLESS...
...other current of news, breadlines in New York City stretched out for blocks. The Bowery Y. M. C. A. was feeding 12,000 jobless per day. Manhattan's Church of the Transfiguration ("The Little Church Around the Corner") opened, for the first time since 1907, free meal counters for 1,000 unemployed per day. Mrs. Irving T. Bush set up a food dispensary which lined up the jobless for two blocks. Demands on charity organizations doubled. Colyumist Heywood Broun started a "Give-a-job-till-June" crusade in the New York Telegram...