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Fortnight ago when funds began to run low and CWA began to taper off its work, a veritable storm of protest arose. Thousands of letters a day arrived at Mr. Hopkin's office protesting the ending of CWA...
...facts became apparent: 1) the CWA which has in two months handed out about $2 per capita for every inhabitant of the U. S. has become the most popular part of the New Deal; 2) like the British dole this form of relief was going to be far harder to stop than to start. Mr. Hop kins himself is in favor of preserving CWA, or something like it, as a permanent measure for unemployment relief, a substitute for unemployment insurance. Other CWA Administrators predict that "it is going to last longer than most people imagine." Socialist Norman Thomas cried...
Such views did not harmonize with those of the President who at the start had no intention of rooting CWA permanently in his program. At the present rate of expenditure CWA would cost $2,000,000,000 a year, enough to wreck even his open-handed plans of U. S. financing. More over the free spending which made CWA so popular was bound to result in bigger scandals of the kind of which he was already getting his first sour taste...
President Roosevelt decided last week to try tapering his way out of the diffi culty. His plan : To end May 1 ; to begin Feb. 15 discharging CWA workers in the South at the rate of 500,000 a week and moving north as the frost comes out of the ground. For this purpose he asked Congress for $350,000,000, requested an other $600,000,000 for relief, part of which, to placate Congress, may be used in CWA fashion but not under CWA...
...CWA mail last week: 37,000 letters (67.8% from laborers). Their subject matter: complaints, 62.6%; asking money 22.2%; praise 6.1%; seeking general information 5.3%: gratitude 3.1%; new plans for ending Depression 7/10...