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I• collections displaying the greatest variety of forms. Before 1935 ended, over 4500 workers in the county were given WPA jobs; the figure climbed to around 7200 by the following summer. which was roughly the peak number employed in the county at any one time. As a rule, St. Joseph County represented a particularly successful example of the WPA program in action, despite a brief rift in July 1937, when the Workers Alliance of America, protesting the threat of reductions in WPA jobs, called a strike. It ended after a few days in a negotiated truce.'-== In June 1935 President Roosevelt established the National Youth Administration (NYA) as a division of the WPA under director Aubrey Williams. Although far less visible than the CCC, NYA was actually more widespread and comprehensive, attuned to a variety of needs. Geared toward young people sixteen to twenty-four, the program offered part-time employment to high school and college students through their institutions so that they could complete their educations. For unemployed girls and boys not in school, the NYA provided part-time work and trainincr programs. For a short time there were NYA camps for training , girls in domestic skills --a project that had originated under F'ERA. Among the training programs set up for unemployed Youth '=' Writer's field survey, spring 1997; Greiff, Makinq a Better Indiana: WPA, Labor and Leisure (Indianapolis: United Auto Workers Community Action Program Council, 1982): Greiff. Potential WPA Historic Properties in Indiana, compiled from microfilmed WPA index cards at the National Archives. 1988 (on • file at Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana); Furlonct, "Some Notes": "Union Balked in WPA Plans. Officials Say." South Bend Tribune, 9 July 1937; "WPA Employees Stage Walkout," Indianapolis Star, 9 July 1937.