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Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams last week announced the fourth successive all-time peak for WPA rolls in as many weeks, a new high of 3,102,000 clients. At the same time he proudly made another announcement: that 166,167 WPAsters had left the rolls in July (a 6.1% monthly turnover), of whom 40,000 gave as their reason that they were taking private jobs. "These facts." asserted Mr. Williams, "indicate that WPA is fulfilling its mission of supplying temporary employment in periods of emergency rather than 'careers,' as has frequently been charged...
...months ago Aubrey Williams, Deputy Administrator of WPA, told relief clients to "keep your friends in power." Fortnight ago David Lasser, able, ambitious, long-nosed little president of the Workers Alliance (which claims 1,000,000 unemployed as members, of whom 400,000 pay 10?-50? monthly dues and are mostly WPA workers) called on his followers to raise a $50,000 Workers Alliance campaign fund for the fall elections. Last week this proved too much even for Mr. Williams' easy-going boss, Harry Hopkins...
...David Lasser, who (like Aubrey Williams, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt) regards work-reliefers as an established U. S. economic class, and sees himself as their established, politically potent leader, this was bitter. He asserted that his Alliance would go ahead and collect its fund anyway "from small businessmen, professional groups, and sympathetic organizations, together with voluntary contributions from members...
...Workers Alliance of America, which boasts that it controls 2,000,000 WPA votes, last week took steps to follow Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams' counsel to "keep your friends in power!" (TIME, July 4.) To every candidate for Congress, President David Lasser of the Alliance sent a questionnaire, the answers to which would be "made available to your constituency." Sample question: "Do you favor an increase in wages to the WPA workers to permit them a minimum decent existence...
...unemployed youth." Their number, about 2,500,000 (aged 16-24) out of both school and work, did not include the army of 500,000 which the New Deal had put into CCC camps. A new agency, NYA, was put into the hands of social-working Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Willis Williams, who at the age of six went to work in a torpedo factory. In spite of setbacks and criticism, Aubrey Williams pushed ahead with NYA. With the help of Executive Director Richard R. Brown, he set up a two-fold machine which gave spare-time academic work to students...