RELIEF RATIONS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19852, 13 February 1930, Page 11

RELIEF RATIONS.

CHICAGO'S UNPAID EMPLOYEES.

CHARITY STORES OPENED

(UMITEO rREtJS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received February 12th, 7.45 p.m.)

NEW YORK, February 11

While bre.id, milk, and clothing doles were being parcelled out to municipal employees in the Chicago aica, the deadlock between the Mayor, "Big Bill" Thompson, and the Citizens' Relief Committee was finally broken, as the Mayor consented to permit his subordinates to consult with that body for relief measures. Conditions had reached such a desperate stage that President Cermak, of Cook County Board, threw open the West Polk street charity stores to thousands »f workers who were faced with starvation, because they were unable to collect their longoverdue salaries. These supplies were literally taken out of the mouths and off the backs of the county's poor, for they were being held for those ordinarily in distress at this time of the year. Food, shoes, clothing, coal, and milk passed out to men and women who presented orders signed by their departmental heads. Each allotment was limited to twentv-five dollars for the first call.