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...court interpreter. Last week, offered "probable permanent employment" as Polish and Yiddish interpreter in one of Justice Bissell's courts at $30 per week, he turned it down "because of insufficient salary." Thereupon Justice Bissell wrote a letter to the city's WTAdministrator Victor Ridder, declaring: "I do not believe that the funds of the people should be dissipated in supporting individuals who decline permanent employment in preference to WPA relief...
Thus Administrator Ridder was forced to a showdown on a problem over which he and all other relief officials have sweated ever since relief began. Potent is the argument of employers, as stated...
When reporters asked him if Engineer Zwanziger would now lose his relief job, Administrator Ridder replied : "Certainly. He turned down a permanent job at $30 a week. He was getting $35 here. He is going out of here, as far as I am concerned, because he is keeping somebody else from the job he has. We are here to give jobs to people who can't get other jobs. ... If everybody here simply stays on his job and doesn't accept outside jobs, we are going to have a solidified group staying right here...
When he was ordered from Washington last week to up his quota of jobs from 220,000 to 255,000. New York City's WPAdministrator Victor Ridder despairingly cried that, because most remaining employables without jobs were unskilled, he did not see how he could possibly do it. "It appears that we are getting down to the end of the string," said he. "The city seems to have reached the saturation point in WPA projects...
Making a gallant effort nonetheless, Administrator Ridder prepared to set 1,300 women to sponging and mending National Guard uniforms, another 2,500 to erasing scribbles and thumbprints from the city's used school books...