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The mayor of Lincoln Center (Lincoln County), F. J. Aufdemberge, writes Governor Harry Woodring of Topeka, Kansas, with a plan to help reduce the high number of unemployed men in the state. Mr. Aufdemberge suggests that married women whose husbands are employed should be required to resign and let unemployed men have those jobs, especially in the case of women teachers employed in high schools. Between 1930 and 1933, Kansas experienced a dramatic rise in unemployment. Woodring's Governor's Committee on Unemployment favored work programs at the local level rather than cash relief programs funded by tax increases. By July 1932, Woodring appealed to the federal government for help and established the Kansas Federal Relief Committee to administer the federal programs. See Governor Harry Woodring to F. J. Aufdemberge, March 23 1932.
Creator: Aufdemberge, F. J.
Date: March 10, 1932
Item Number: 207807
Call Number: Governor's Records, Woodring, Box 24.25 Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 207807
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Woodring, Harry Hines
Date - 1930s - 1932
Education - Secondary - Teachers
Government and Politics - Local Government - Municipal - Mayor
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Woodring, Harry Hines
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
Places - Cities and towns - Lincoln Center
Places - Counties - Lincoln
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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