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...also said that there should be guarantees of steady appropriations to maintain necessary relief by work or otherwise for the unemployed, until such time as they could be reabsorbed into properly planned industries. However, I have steadily insisted that CWA was not the best way; that instead PWA should be greatly expanded, especially in the direction of re-housing the quarter of our population who now live in slums and shacks; that CWA should be reduced to the dimensions of the useful work done under it and that for those who cannot then be immediately employed an outright unemployment allowance...
...Naval appropriation bill which provided not only 2,800 more seamen and 1,000 additional marines for the 16 new ships which will be completed in the next 17 months but also funds for beginning another 8-in. gun cruiser and three more 6-in. gun cruisers. Including PWA money, $442,000,000 will be spent on the Navy in fiscal 1935. When later in the week the House passed the Naval appropriation bill without change, Admiral Standley could boast that the Navy with 58 new ships would at last be brought up to full treaty strength...
...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...
...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 parks, chasing starlings (see p. 14) but skilled workers repairing public buildings, women as social workers and dishwashers, actors doing plays for schoolchildren, contract bridge experts teaching...
...Iowa last week a grand jury investigating PWA graft indicted Lieutenant Governor Nelson George Kraschel for conspiracy to defraud the Government...