Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hook lives with his father & mother in Ironwood, Mich. Three other Hook boys have families of their own. With one exception, the Hooks have not found worldly success. Brother Lawrence Hook, father of one, was on relief until last June. So were Father Michael Hook, Mother Mary Hook and Brother Joe Hook until this month, when Joe got a job. Still on relief last week were Brothers Herman and George Hook, each the father of two. The single exception to the general Hook haplessness is Brother Frank, father of two, a onetime city commissioner, county supervisor and municipal judge...
Fierce was Labor's unsuccessful fight to put the principle of "prevailing wages" into the Work Relief Bill. Mortal is Labor's fear that if it takes less than union pay from the Government, private employers will use that precedent to smash its whole wage system. Hence New York's Central Trades & Labor Council was able to call union men off their WPA jobs last week, get them to make a quixotic gesture of Labor solidarity...
...York's Federal Relief Administrator Hugh S. Johnson argued himself hoarse trying to convince the unionists that "security wages" would not sap private wages. He offered figures to prove that by working steadily for the Government at security wages they would make more than building tradesmen had averaged on sporadic private jobs for the past five years. He pleaded that the Government could not afford to pay any more. He begged, "Don't do it, boys!" Finally he turned to threats, ordered strikers to be back on their jobs this week or else be dropped from relief rolls...
Since FERA has consistently refused to discriminate against private strikers, New York's relief strikers pooh-poohed General Johnson's talk, expected to live on home relief. But in Washington, WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins surprised them by promising that whatever home relief they got would be from states or cities because the Federal Government would not contribute a cent to their support. Snapped he: "There is no such thing as a strike on a relief...
Only two politicians in the U. S. last week appeared to be ignorant of the fact that a significant Congressional election was being held in Rhode Island. One was Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins, who, when asked to comment on the charge that he had spent millions to influence voters, snorted: "I didn't even know there was an election up there until it was over." The other was President Roosevelt who wanted newshawks to believe that he had never heard of the Rhode Island contest until he saw newspaper headlines the following morning to the effect that...