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Here For Catholic Meet, SaysHousing Projects Fail To Help PoorThefailed in their purpose to benefitthe poor, and phases of the projects have developed into a racket,plan to obtain proper housing forthe poor in San Antonio and madetwo efforts to get federal housingFather Carmen J. Tranchese, S. J., of S$n Antonio, charged in El Paso today.Father Tranchese arrived today for the El Paso Catholic Welfare Assn. meeting to be attended here tomorrow by 2000 Catholics.The Jesuit priest, pastor of San Antonio’i Our Lady of Guadalupe Church with 6000 parishoners, is a member of the San Antonio Housing Authority. He pioneered in thebefore the third one, with the aid* ...of Mlaury Maverick, then U. S. congressman, succeeded.Five projects, totaling $12,000.-000, will be completed for the city. Father Tranchese is a former El Pasoan.“I intend to get word to President Roosevelt and show him that the projects are not benefiting thepoor,” the priest said. “They are very different from what they wereoriginally intended to be. ThePresident is sincere in wanting to help the poor.”Not onty can the poor not livein the slum clearance apartments, because of the many restrictions, but they can’t even get needed employment on the projects, the priest said.“When a project is started, the labor union jumps in and the workmen have to pay $15 fee to get the jobs. It’s really a racket. They import labor in San Antonio,” the frank, ruddy faced. Italian-bornpastor said. He added that the only contractor who has given his poor(Continued on Page 16, Col. 3)(I!
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Tue, Feb 11, 1941
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