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OOCUM ENT~ ROOM No . 4 -- 1703 THE WORKS PROGRAM -- Works Progress Administratioa For Release to Morning Newspapers Wednesday, June 15, 1938 . HOPKINS ANNOUUCES Y1?A PllRCHASE OF $10 , 000,000 WORTH OF CLOTHING FOR RELIEF DISTRIBUTION Harry L. Hopkins, Works Progress Administrator, announced tod:-,y the purchase of $10, 000 , 000 worth of men ' s, women. 1 s ~nd children 1 s clothing, for distribution to p eople otherv'l'ise un!:'.b le to buy such clot~ing . The clot hing will be bought from ma nufacturers in ::.ill parts of the country, on the bri,sis of immediate delivery . The distribution will be hruidled by St8.te Departmen ts of Public Welfn.re . Mr. Eopkins stated that this would make possible immediate r E:suniption of employment in clothing- making industries through the absorption of existing inventori es . The purch>se by VlPA of surplus clothing stocks was propose d to Administrat o r Hopkin3 r occatly by Sidney Hillman , president of the Amn.lgamP..t ed Clothing Workers of Americr,. He estimnted that abnut 160 , 000 employees in the industry vmuld be directly or indirectly benefited by the plan . Once t:1e p resent surplus lu'. s been eliminn.ted, he informed Mr . Hopkins, manufr.cturers y;ou..ld t;Qin confidence , acquire new stocks ;md put people to work . He estir:1ated thD..t on 01..1_tln,y of from $8 , 000 , 000 to $10,000,000 \7ould dispnse of the present surplus . - - - - Digitized by NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 0 - - - - 1 . .... ( ' D,,Jr.:8;-:,,,.., Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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