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...When CWA began operations last year, an able-bodied Negro in Georgia could be hired to tend a flower garden for about 50? per day. When CWA began hiring unskilled workers at 40? per hour, the supply of cheap labor available for private employers dwindled alarmingly. Georgia's Governor Talmadge complained first about Government competition, then wailed that no Government officials would listen to him. FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins impatiently snapped: "All that guy is after is headlines. . . . Some people just can't stand to see others making a living wage." When Governor Talmadge kept on squawking, Administrator Hopkins...
...year ago this time the Federal Relief Administration was humming with great plans for taking care of the unemployed during the winter. President Roosevelt had just authorized a Civil Works program and Relief Administrator Hopkins was getting ready to provide CWA jobs for 4,000,000 jobless, to distribute the first CWA pay checks before Thanksgiving (TIME, Nov. 20). Last week, however, cold weather was almost upon the country and President Roosevelt had not yet made up his mind as to how he would handle this winter's relief problem...
...Renewal of a scheme similar to last year's CWA, an expensive form of relief, costing about twice as much as the dole...
...arrangement has the ear-marks of bribery--on the part of the Democratic Party to catch the votes of the needy. The resources of the United States Treasury are sufficient to make the purse of many a voter heavier. And who would expect someone receiving money from the HOLC, CWA, or any other alphabetical combination to vote against a New Dealer. There is something quite doubtful in the ethics of allowing those on Federal relief to vote in Federal elections. Of course Mr. Roosevelt would no more point this out than he would repudiate Curley...
...Federal, State and local governments (must) act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced." (This explains the FERA, the PWA, the CWA, and other economies...