Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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United Automobile Workers' President Homer Martin last week addressed the following letter to Michigan's State Relief Administration: "It has come to our attention that our Flint welfare director, while receiving pay from the international union, has also been receiving welfare from the Emergency Relief Administration. . . . We have asked for and received the resignation of this...
Meantime, appropriation of $3,019,000,000 of the President's $5,000,000,000 spending program went through the House like a breeze. The $3,019,000,000 is relief money: mainly $1,250,000,000 for WPA, $965,000,000 for PWA (plus a $500,000,000 revolving fund to be used for loans to States & cities), $175,000,000 to the Farm Security Administration. As such it represented the rest of the program proposed by Franklin Roosevelt a month ago, except for the $300,000,000 for slum clearance...
There does not seem to be much doubt that if U. S. relief were handled locally it could be done cheaper. The State Auditor of Ohio informed the President last week that 20% of the States relief expenditures were attributable to chiselers. He wanted a WPA appropriation to find them and kick them...
...declined to concede that subsequent conviction of 37 strikers and two C. I. O. leaders on contempt of court charges in any way affected workers' rights under the Wagner Act. By directing Fansteel to re-employ the strikers, recognize their union, the board clearly informed all employers that relief from sit-downs was not to be found in the Wagner Act or NLRB...
...Joseph Cuddihy, who was first employed by Funk & Wagnalls in 1878 as a 16-year-old office boy. He eventually came to own 60% of the company's stock. Retiring, kindly, generous Publisher Cuddihy used his magazine to collect some $10,000,000 for Belgian and Near East relief during and after the World War. In the ten years following the War, the Digest achieved its greatest period of power and prestige...