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...entire deficit. When Mr. Morgenthau's clerks added them up and subtracted the small surplus, President Roosevelt was informed that his deficit was precisely $1,024,121,667 of which the chief items were: RFC $532,000,000; PWA $204,000,000; CCC $146,810,000; CWA...
...thinning corn from dawn to dark a farmer's helper is lucky to get $2 per day. Many a factory hand gets hardly more. But CWA puts jobless men to work at 50? an hour-$3 for a six-hour day of not too arduous labor. Last week in Toledo four metal manufacturers complained that workers whom they were paying between 35? and 40? under an NRA code were deserting to take better-paying CWA jobs. While relief officials were investigating, Georgia's Governor Talmadge charged that CWA was also hiring help away from the farm. He complained...
...first time in four years William Holly, 48, of Sandusky had a job last week. He pulled on his overalls, kissed his wife and children, started out for the street which CWA had hired him to clean. On the way an automobile knocked him down, killed...
There were ten other deaths on CWA projects last week, nine of them in Colorado. Near Grand Junction, a canyon road gang was clearing away debris after a dynamite blast. A cliff came tumbling down on the road, buried six workers, hurled three to the bottom of a canyon 300 feet below...
...work by Dec. 15. Last week CWAdministrator Harry L. Hopkins informed the President that the quota had been reached. President Roosevelt immediately announced that, to carry the program past Feb. 15 when the funds will expire, he would ask Congress for another $350,000,000, keep CWA going until...