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History Of The CC In Maine Helping people get back to work by John Murray
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hen President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933 the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression. Many were experiencing difficult times, and a staggering number had lost jobs and could not find work. By March of 1933, 13.6 million people in the United States were unemployed. President Roosevelt knew the challenges that lay before him well before he began his tenure as the leader of the nation. In President Roosevelt’s inaugural address on March 4, 1933, he spoke of the dire need to put people back to work. “Our greatest primary task is to get people back to work. There is no unsolvable problem if we
face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting of the government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and organize the use of our national resources.” The president did not hesitate to put a plan into motion. Two days after the inauguration, President Roosevelt called an emergency meeting with his government officials. In this meeting, he informed the government staff as to what he intended to do. As a component of what he called the New Deal, President Roosevelt would immedi-
ately put a half million young men to work in the newly created CCC, which was the Civilian Conservation Corps. These young men would work in the wilderness, forests and lands throughout the country, and their primary focus was to restore and conserve the legacy of the national lands. On April 5, 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps was established by Congress, and would have a presence in every state of the nation. Shortly thereafter, Maine was informed on April 27, 1933 that the CCC would establish multiple needed camps in the state for extensive long-term projects. The CCC was formulated on a military model, and would be administered and (cont. on page 6)
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