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As the middle-aged man left.

The second recruiter walked in soon.

It's just that compared with the first applicant who mastered professional skills, the subsequent men were even more unsatisfactory in various conditions. Before he lost his job, he was just an ordinary assembly line worker without any outstanding skills. Even before he applied for a job at the Courier Newspaper, he had no experience working in the newspaper media industry.

"Sorry, sir."

Therefore, after hearing 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 either..."

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.

What 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 recruitment posts. 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 as Great charity and kindness..."

The Great Depression led to an unprecedented polarization of rich and poor in the United States.

As the man said, many wealthy people consider it a good deed to give leftovers to fellow countrymen who have nothing 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 suggested setting up a main station and asking charitable citizens to send leftover soup scraps there for the poor to share. In order to allow the poor to eat these leftovers, someone even drafted a plan, calling on chefs in restaurants, civic clubs and hotels to put the leftovers into "clean iron buckets with a capacity of five gallons, and mark them as containing meat" , beans, potatoes, bread, etc.'" to pay 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 doing so might cause misunderstanding and vetoed 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 sympathy for the solution to the leftovers.

The emergence of the Great Depression certainly had 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 this does not mean that you can vent your emotions freely here. One thing you must be clear about is that this is a newspaper office and not a charity like the Salvation Army. 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 in a gray manner 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 in the newspaper, they showed great sincerity, and the work experience of several of them really made Colin a little moved. In particular, one of the white-collar workers had worked in a publishing house before he lost his job. He specialized in collecting and organizing European publications for domestic distribution and had rich experience in publication sales.

After talking to the other party for a few words, Colin quickly finalized the recruitment of this white-collar worker named Francis.

"Thank you, thank you, Mr. Colin, no boss, I will definitely work hard and will never let you down!"

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

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

After crying for Colin for a long time, Francis restrained his emotions and walked out of the newspaper with red eyes.

However, seeing Francis's red eyes, everyone queuing outside laughed at him, but instead showed a very envious expression.

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

As Francis was successfully recruited, the urgency of the team members also increased.

In the team, every unemployed person who was successfully recruited means that their chances were reduced.

No one wanted to be the one who was eliminated.

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