CHICAGO'S SHAME
CHARITY STORES FOR POOR ISSUED TO CIVIC EMPLOYEES NEW YOKE, 11th February. While bread, milk, and clothing doles are being parcelled out to municipal employees in the Chicago area, the, deadlock betwen the Mayor, 'Mr. William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, and the Citizens' Belief Comimttee has-been, finally broken, as the Mayor has consented to permit his subordinates to consult with that body for relief measures. Conditions had reached such a desperate stage that the president of the Cook County Board threw open the West Polk street charity stores to thousands of workers who were faced with starvation because they were unable to collect their long-overdue salaries. These supplies were literally taken out of the mouths and off tho 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 wero passed out to men and women who presented orders signed by their departmental heads. Each allotment was limited 1o 25 dollars on the first call.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 37, 13 February 1930, Page 9
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173CHICAGO'S SHAME Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 37, 13 February 1930, Page 9
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