Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most weekends Franklin Roosevelt goes cruising on the Sequoia to get away from his troubles. Last week he took his troubles with him in the persons of two Senators and his No. i relief administrator. South Carolina's James Byrnes and Kentucky's Alben Barkley this week will have to deal with a Senate disposed to gnaw and shred the President's tax bill (see p. 16). Harry Hopkins is trying to keep the President's promise to put 3,500,000 unemployed to work by Nov. 1 and at the same time keep organized labor...
...would make everyone with an income over $5,000 a year pay a surtax, would add $60 a year to the tax of a man earning $6,000, $160 a year to the tax of a man earning $10,000. Even a jobless single man working on a PWA relief project might soon find himself owing the Government an income tax on money the same government had paid him to keep from starving...
Will skilled union workers starve to protect the wage scales which Labor has struggled 50 years to build? That question was put to a test in New York City last week when some 2,000 union bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers, lathers on Federal relief jobs walked out on strike against WPA's "security wages...
...gain. On the contrary, they walked out on a 50% raise in pay. Under the old FERA set-up a skilled laborer got $60 per month, worked just long enough to earn it at prevailing (i. e. union) wages. Under the new WPA setup, to which New York City relief jobs were shifted last week, the tradesman gets up to $93.50 per month, but must work at least 120 hr. for it. That means an hourly wage well below the prevailing rate...
...improvement, varying from the relief of headache to apparent complete cure; 10% not benefited. About 15% seemed to be cured...