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...important thing is that capital for industry, which may do more to bring about reemployment than all the public works projects put together, is likely to be made available in the next six months as a part of the general drive to find work for CWA workers and the vast number of unemployed who are still on relief rolls...
...York, March 11--An American system of unemployment insurance based on the CWA was urged tonight by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia in a communication to the United States Conference of mayors...
Such ominous predictions last week accompanied President Roosevelt's determined effort to demobilize the Civil Works program by May 1. Already the CWA payroll had been cut from its peak to 2,609,500. Further reductions were to follow at the rate of 275,000 a week...
Significance. Made to look as much like CWA as possible-in order to appease those who want CWA continued-the new program is obviously intended to be different. An important point is that, instead of hiring any properly registered unemployed person, the new program will aid only those actually in want. Furthermore, since CWA costs $200,000,000 a month and only $500,000,000 has been provided to run the new program for eight months (May 1 to Jan. 1, 1935), it is evident that jobs will not be for a fixed number of hours each week...
...will get out of this depression, as I see it, only if business is sufficiently enterprising in the next year, even in spite of the faulty policies of the NRA and the CWA, to absorb an increasing number of unemployed wage earners. After all, unemployment is the result of errors in judgment made by ourselves, the directing classes...