Word: lasser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economizers on Senator Adams' committee were asked by David Lasser, head of the Workers Alliance: "Is the majority in this Congress trying deliberately to provoke a situation of social disorder?"; were told by Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City, president of the United States Conference of Mayors: "Havoc will be rife throughout the nation." A committee of actors & artists visited Washington bearing petitions with 200,000 signatures demanding continuance of WPA arts projects. Cafeteria, hotel & restaurant workers telegraphed en masse. Senator Adams got one telegram which was delivered as follows: "Are you a man or a delete...
...formidable did the Garner economy bloc appear last week that alert little David Lasser, president of the Workers Alliance (reliefers' union) sounded an alarm, called for "the angry voice of the people" to halt "the reckless plans of Garner and his clique...
President David Lasser of the Workers Alliance said: "We have nothing against Colonel Harrington personally. He is a fine gentleman. But ... he represents the Army type of mind which does not, in our opinion, embody the qualifications necessary to administer a civilian undertaking involving so many social and labor relations...
Uppermost in the minds of David Lasser, Pinky Harrington and Congress is the fact that WPA's appropriation of $1,425,000,000 will be spent by February 7 (3 weeks ahead of schedule). The inevitable request for a deficiency appropriation to carry Relief until June 30 will give the 76th Congress its first big battle, give WPA's critics their chance to try for amendments to end Relief-in-politics, to cancel the blank-check system of allotting funds to the Administration...
...David Lasser hoped his performance would influence Messrs. Williams and Harry Hopkins to influence Franklin Roosevelt to influence Congress to put up more Relief money. Harry Hopkins last week showed no desire to raise his rolls. Instead, he announced that in the week ended December 10, WPA's total of dependents fell 45,514 to 3,139,045, having declined for five successive weeks from a peak...