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...talk with employes on work & wages. Now before NRA she was an emphatic objector to Steel's limited concessions to Labor. With all the prestige of the New Deal behind her, she pointed out that the proposed 40-hour week would not help to re-employ 150,000 jobless steel workers, that the proposed minimum wage null an hour) would not help to restore 1929 purchasing power. She called for an end to the seven-day week, the use of labor spies, discrimination against Negroes and the hourly basis for wage calculation. Said she: "It is disappointing that...
...preliminary step on the way to Cuba's economic recovery." ¶ The President was happy to receive a report that his Civilian Conservation Corps had been completely enrolled (274,-375 ), was now working in the woods, had already sent home more than $6,000,000 to its jobless relations. ¶ Waiting at the White House was a huge patronage roll prepared by Postmaster Farley for the President's approval. July 15 was to be the day when the Democracy got its hands on its first batch of Federal small jobs. ¶ By means of a highly complicated schedule...
...budget (see below); $400,000,000 from the regular payment into the Public Debt Sinking Fund. ¶ His "capital" budget, to be raised by special borrowing, will include: $3,300,000,000 for public works; $500,000,000 for direct jobless relief, $400,000,000 to start the bank deposit guarantee fund. Domestic Allotment farm relief, home and farm mortgage relief, etc. Special taxes have been segregated to service this special budget. ¶ During fiscal 1933 the Public Debt increased $3,051,000,000 to $22,539,000,000 -high point since 1922. The incease in the Public Debt...
...jobless "Tree Army" boy receives $30 pay per month, with laundry, tobacco, chewing gum and picture shows free. He takes no oath and is free to go home any time he chooses. It has been estimated that not more than 30% of the accepted candidates for the C. C. C. could have passed the Regular Army enlistment examination, therefore the higher qualified 70?-per-day soldier has been cut to 59½? per day so that the budget could be balanced, and the unqualified, out-of-job boy may be paid $1 per day for doing useless labor...
...Montreal, Louis Philippe Sauvageau, jobless longshoreman exhilarated by summer sunshine, singing birds, green grass, strolled down St. James Street singing ''Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" As he launched into the chorus a constable approached, listened, arrested him for begging without a permit...