Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Herald Tribune. Along the route the President complained that Vermont and New Hampshire had not done the upstream reforestation to prevent floods which they should have, that only 51% of Vermont's and 35% of New Hampshire's PWA labor had been taken from the relief rolls. He declared the Federal Government would hereafter be "hardboiled"' in advancing its 45% of the cost of PWA projects...
Three days & nights of such rowdy high jinks by organized jobless in the galleries last week forced Pennsylvania's General Assembly into submission. For 13 weeks its Democratic House and Republican Senate had haggled in special session over relief for the State's 560,000 needy. Last month when funds ran out, a small group of unemployed rolled into Harrisburg by bus, made themselves so obnoxious that Republicans and Democrats advanced $3,000,000 for temporary relief. Last fortnight the $3,000,000 were gone and the army trooped back in greater numbers. Kept alive & kicking...
...this legislative demonstration last week was slim, almost chinless, 34-year-old President David Lasser of the Workers Alliance of America. By now a thoroughgoing professional at marching his squads of unemployed into a State capitol and virtually taking over the legislative proceedings in the name of higher relief standards, Lasser and his Workers made their headline debut at Madison, Wis. last March. There soft-hearted Governor Philip La Follette welcomed them into the State House, provided them with food, advised them to "turn the heat" on the Legislature. After they had camped in the Senate chamber for ten days...
Last April 700 Workers Alliance delegates marched on Washington to hold convention and see Franklin Roosevelt, who was vacationing in the South. After tongue-lashing the Government's relief policies, they voted by "129,958-to-21,413" to unite with other jobless unions, notably the National Unemployment Councils, Communist Herbert Benjamin's organization of radical-minded unemployed which had been staging intermittent "hunger marches" on the U. S. Capitol ever since 1931. Three weeks later, members of this new and larger Workers Alliance invaded Trenton, N. J., occupied the State House, jeered the Legislature with abandon, were...
...public attention on the discontent and despair of doletakers. The amalgamation in Washington last April, he claims, swelled the membership of his organization to 800,000 with chapters or affiliates in 43 states. Monthly dues are either 10? or 25?, depending on whether the Alliance member is on home relief or a WPA job. From this income the Alliance pays its three salaried officers $20 per week...