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...District of Columbia a Civil Works Administration supervisor was arrested last week for collecting bribes from workers seeking advancement. In Los Angeles two women were arrested for conspiracy to defraud the Government in CWA work and a grand jury was just warming up for a series of indictments. In Pennsylvania a CWA engineer was dismissed for having taken a commission on a CWA job. The Oregon department of the American Legion passed resolutions complaining that people not in need were getting CWA jobs, that CWA was full of favoritism and inefficiency. In Harvey, outskirt of Chicago, six employed politicians were...
Virginia the Legislature commanded an investigation of CWA projects...
Almost overnight CWA graft had festered up to make ugly headlines and set honest heads to shaking. President Roosevelt was getting 300 letters a day complaining about padded payrolls, false expense accounts, job-selling and political preference in CWA projects. Harry Lloyd Hopkins, young New York social worker whom the President made CWA head to put 4,000,000 men to work over the winter, had complaints from every State in the union except Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Admitting that he was "tremendously disconcerted" by the charges of graft against his organization, Mr. Hopkins declared...
...Public Works Administration whose slowness in providing jobs caused the CWA to be set up as a temporary measure, took the job of investigating CWA complaints. Fifteen CWA and three PWA graft cases* were handed over to the Attorney General for investigation. Mr. Hopkins began sending out Army engineers to check up on CWA work. When he appointed one for Cook County, Ill. (Chicago), the entire Illinois CWA Commission promptly resigned...
...wave of complaints against the way CWA was run was only a mild ripple compared to the comber of complaints against the plan to stop running CWA altogether. Since Nov. 25 Mr. Hopkins has put 4,000,000 men on his payroll, paid them with checks on the U. S. Treasury and used up most of $400,000,000 allotted to him. This form of direct relief was originally planned to last only until Feb. 15 when PWA projects and business recovery were scheduled to provide fresh jobs. Not only pick & shovel men laying sidewalks, building wharves, working on public...