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Last week the spotlight was turned once more on such activities in the city which has not only the largest local relief population in the U.S. but also has more than its share of white-collar idle. If every man, woman & child in Providence, Birmingham, Dallas, Akron, Oklahoma City and Omaha were on relief they would approximately equal the number of persons in New York City now living on government bounties. They number 1,400,000- one-fifth the total population.* To support them costs about $20,000,000 per month, of which the city supplies onefourth, the State onefourth...
...have been giving work to a lot of white-collar people ... and 97% of all the money spent on these projects has gone for relief-only 3% for materials. We have no apologies to make for any of these projects. Most of them will be continued and there will be a lot more of the same type. We haven't done enough for the white-collar people. . . . The only critics are people who want to abolish work relief and people who are too damned dumb to appreciate the finer things of life...
...Medalist was born to a miner in Ontario. Brought to the Michigan Copper Country in infancy, James MacNaughton started work at 11, carrying water on the C. & H. coal docks, was later a coal-weigher, then a switchman. He attended University of Michigan, went back to C. & H. a white-collar engineer. For ten years he managed Michigan's richest iron mine, returned once more to C. & H. 33 years ago and has never left it since, rising by traditional stages to the presidency...
Brightest Steel news of the week was that U. S. Steel had restored a 10% salary cut to its 20,000 white-collar workers by returning, after six months, to a full five-and-one-half day week. Just as Big Steel always cuts dividends before wages, so it raises wages before dividends. All that Steel's eminent directors needed now for favorable action on the preferred was conviction that Steel would not relapse...
Hillside will have to charge about the same rents as RFC-financed Knickerbocker Village (TIME, Oct. 15), $12.50 per room per month. As a result its apartments will be taken over by white-collar tenants since the poor for whom it was intended cannot possibly pay that much. One of the prime reasons for high rents is the cost of labor on the job. At Hillside, bricklayers get $13.20 a day, plasterers and stonecutters, $12; carpenters, masons, electricians, $11.20. As every contractor knows, there can be no low-cost housing at such a wage scale for the building trades...