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Volume III - No. 2


August, 1939

C.C.C.

PROGRESS REPORT DESCRIBES CORPS' WORK OF SIX YEARS

A complete statistical record of all work accomplished by the 2,500,000 young men, war veterans, Indians and territorials who have enrolled for varying periods in the Civilian Conservation Corps is contained in a special report prepared by Director Robert Fechner. Figures are complete to last April 1.

The report describes the 150 types of work undertaken, explains the procedure through which the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies have cooperated in supervising activities of the enrollees, and points out how the national aims in the fields of conservation and public recreation have been advanced by many years through application of the Corps' tremendous man-power.

"I am proud of the fine performance record which . . . [the enrollees] have made," said Mr. Fechner. "An overwhelming majority of the men who are working and who have worked in the CCC camps were inexperienced in any kind of work when first enrolled. These men had to be taught how to work. They had to be trained to do the wide variety of conservation tasks that make up a part of the CCC's daily work program. The speed with which these green youngsters have learned . . . was a source of gratification to every person connected in any way with the CCC program. As a result the CCC has been able to turn out a tremendous amount of work. It has also graduated hundreds of thousands of youngsters who today are economically more secure, thanks in large part to lessons learned in the disciplined atmosphere of the nation-wide chain of CCC camps which have been operating since the early summer of 1933. . . . Enrollees, over the last six years and three months, allocated to dependents out of their basic cash allowances of $30 a month, an aggregate of more than $500,000.000."

CCC-built campground
CCC=BUILT PUBLIC CAMP GROUND, GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK


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