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Unemployment Relief pushes jobs in Cedar Rapids
A Cedar Rapids drive organized a Citizens Free Employment bureau network with four committees to place jobless men and women. Over its peak period 3,900 registered, 2,582 men worked on 75 projects improving public services, housing, and needed welfare supports.
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Citizens’ Free Employment Bureau
O. L. Moore
Citizens Free Employment Bureau
Cedar Rapids
Manon
FE. M. Scott
George Laird
R. H. Meister
Joe McCormick
Charles Schoen
Lena Vogt
A. E. Chase
Robert Vesely
A. I. Bailey
Mary Lackersteen
Public Engineering
H. R. Green
T. R. Warriner
E. L. McKibben
Henry E. Haegg
Benjamin M. Tait
Frank E. Young
A. J. Smith
Frances Prescott
George Gibson
Charles D. Manson
Jay Sigmund
J. M. Tallman
Don Hines
Edward Larimer
O. C. Olney
Clara Robinson
Opal Cook
Nora Gott
Gertrude Stenner
Addie Zika
A. A. Couser
Owen T. Barry
R. R. Downer
Paul Engel
W. L. Fowler
James Frear
D. A. Leonard
Bruce McKay
H. J. Rowe
David L
Sunshine Mission
City Park Department
Committee For Unemployment Relief
Overseer of
Unemployment Fund
Dave Williams
Federation of Labor
Jane Boyd
County Board of Supervisors