The Wilmington Morning Star

'Work Or Fight' Order
Brings Results As 30
Men Seek Employment

At least 30 men have found employment as the result of the "work or fight campaign," initiated by Governor J. M. Broughton and carried on here through a committee headed by Mayor Bruce B. Cameron.

Felix A. Scroggs, manager of the U. S. Employment service, said that the 30 Wilmington men, most of whom he said have not held jobs in a long time, had gone to work as the direct result of the campaign.

The campaign has also produced results in the courts where vagrants, rounded up by Chief of Police Charles H. Casteen's department, have either gone to work or to the county farm.

He quoted a white man as saying "If I have to work, I'm going to get a job that pays me, instead of working for the county for nothing."

He went to work, as well as the other 29. The employment office sent them to jobs as laborers, truck drivers, and carpenters.

"We know this number sought jobs because of the work or fight proclamation," Scroggs said, "because all of them made mention of it when they applied for work."

Ages of the men who would rather work, if they had to, than fight were between 20 and 50. Most were Negroes.