American manga: I drew Superman in the Great Depression

Chapter 85 Poverty and Riches

As the middle-aged man left.

The second recruiter walked in quickly.

It’s just that compared with the first applicant who mastered professional skills, the subsequent men were even more unsatisfactory in various conditions. Before losing his job, he was just an ordinary assembly line worker without any outstanding skills. Even when he came to the Courier

Before applying for a job at a newspaper, I didn’t even have any experience working in the newspaper media industry.

"Sorry, sir."

Therefore, after listening to the other party's conditions, Colin simply shook his head and refused.

"Mr. Colin Looper, I beg you..."

However, in the face of Colin's refusal, the man knelt down with a plop, cried and begged: "I haven't eaten enough for a long time. If this continues, I will starve to death."

Once I die, my wife and children will not survive..."

The other party's experience is certainly tragic.

But this is obviously not the reason why Colin recruited him. After all, situations like this for men can be seen everywhere throughout the Great Depression.

Even the middle-aged man who was recruited before had a similar experience to him.

If Colin recruited him to work in the newspaper just because he sympathized with the other party, then almost everyone queuing up outside met his recruitment conditions, including the middle-aged man who was rejected by him before.

"Sorry, sir, we are a newspaper, not a welfare organization. Recruitment is to find qualified workers."

"I am very strong. As long as you ask me to do the work, I will definitely complete it with all my strength!"

"We are a newspaper office, not a factory, sir."

The man who applied for the job begged for a while, but found that Colin remained unmoved, and finally gave up hope. He gritted his teeth and cursed loudly at Colin in front of him: "You damn capitalists, it is because of you that the Great Depression happened."

It happened, it was you who caused me to lose my job, and now you are hypocritically posting job openings. You are the culprits. You have plunged the country into depression, but let the poor bear all the pain. You are self-righteous and throw the leftover food to us.

Consider it a great charity and kindness..."

The Great Depression led to unprecedented extremes of wealth and poverty in the United States.

As the man said, many wealthy people consider it a good deed to give their leftovers to fellow countrymen who have no food to eat.

In Mount Gisco, New York, the Elks Club and the Princeton University Dinner Club, a charity organization established in 1876, ordered servants to send leftovers to the poor.

The "Brooklyn Eagle" newspaper suggested setting up a main station and asking charitable citizens to send leftover soup and leftovers there for the poor to share. In order to allow the poor to eat these leftovers, someone even drafted a special

The plan called on chefs in restaurants, civic clubs and hotels to put leftovers into "clean iron buckets with a capacity of five gallons and mark them as 'meat, beans, potatoes, bread, etc.'" to distribute to the unemployed.

But they completely ignore that in times of economic hardship, apart from the rich themselves, how many people can waste food like them.

Some people even wrote to the president specifically because of the issue of handing out leftovers, hoping that he would accept this opinion and reduce the burden on the people.

However, Hoover did not adopt this suggestion in the end.

Judging from the news revealed by the media, the director of Hoover's Emergency Employment Committee believed that this might cause misunderstanding and rejected the plan.

For a president who can say that in New York, a homeless man ate 10 meals a day.

You really can't expect him to have much resonance with the solution to the leftovers.

The emergence of the Great Depression was certainly due to time and economic factors.

However, Hoover's subsequent series of foolish policies were also one of the reasons why the Great Depression never ended but instead intensified.

And he said that "the crisis will be over within 60 days" and "the country's basic affairs are still based on good and prosperous foundations".

It has also made more people understand that the "golden 20s" are completely over, and the "golden 30s" will never be realized again.

Colin agreed with the man's thoughts about those capitalists, but this did not mean that he agreed with the other person's offense against him.

"I can understand the despair in your heart at this moment, sir, but that doesn't mean you can vent your emotions freely here. One thing you must know is that this is a newspaper office and not a charity like the Salvation Army.

As an organization, my criteria for recruiting workers are based on professionalism, not who is pitiful."

"If you want to seek relief, you can go to those charities and the government instead of coming to my newspaper for meaningless moral kidnapping. The Courier Newspaper has no obligation to help you!"

The tough attitude shown by Colin left the man speechless.

He glanced at Colin, who had a cold face in front of him, and opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he lowered his head and left the newspaper office dejectedly under the glare of Little John.

He didn't even dare to take action, not only because there was a family waiting for him in Hooverville, but also because under Colin's gaze, the man couldn't muster the slightest courage to take action.

Fortunately, except for the second applicant.

The next applicants all behaved quite normally.

Most of them are unemployed white-collar workers or bank workers.

In order to get this job at the newspaper, he showed great sincerity, and the work experience of several of them really moved Colin. Especially one of them, a white-collar worker, worked in a publishing house before losing his job.

It specializes in collecting and sorting out European publications for domestic distribution, and has rich experience in publication sales.

After chatting with the other party for a few words, Colin quickly finalized the recruitment called Francis White Collar.

"Thank you, thank you, Mr. Colin, boss, I will work hard and I will never let down your trust in me!"

After learning that he got this job, Francis almost cried with joy and said to Colin.

During the Great Depression, it was almost everyone's dream to find a stable job.

After crying with gratitude to Colin for a long time, Francis calmed down his emotions and walked out of the newspaper office with red eyes.

However, seeing Francis's eyes red from crying, everyone in the queue outside laughed at him, but instead showed great envy.

If possible, how much they hope that the person who successfully recruits them is themselves.

And as Francis successfully applied for the job, the urgency in the hearts of everyone in the team also increased a bit.

The successful recruitment of every unemployed person in the team means that their chances are reduced by one point.

No one wants to be the one eliminated.