This letter is a request for all females employed in the Transient Bureaus to be dismissed and replaced with men. During the Great Depression, when competition for jobs was so fierce, some demanded women leave their jobs so that unemployed men could work.
Letter from L. L. Day and Others to the Honorable James A. Farley
- 8/2/1934
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Jackson, Miss.
8/2/34
Hon. James A. Farley
Postmaster General
Washington, D.C.
We, the undersigned, ask that all females that are employed in the Transi[en]t Bureaus be dismissed and be replaced with men. We are going to ask Mr. Hugh Johnson to have all females discharged by all business men in every line of work and if it is necessary to have anything like a camp make it for a women and in place of making slaves of them let them be ladies. Stop making “bums” of the school boys that don’t know what to do with themselves. Give the boys chance to make a name for themselves instead of being a poor bum. We have no malice in regard to women,
Signed
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This primary source comes from the Records of the National Recovery Administration.
National Archives Identifier: 594990
Full Citation: Letter from L. L. Day and Others to the Honorable James A. Farley; 8/2/1934; Classified General Files, 1933–1935; Records of the National Recovery Administration, Record Group 9; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/letter-james-farley-employment/, April 1, 2026]
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