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...each dependent to all workers and farmers--some 15,000,000--above eighteen years of age, unemployed through no fault of their own. In case average local wages were higher than $10 a week--and in many communities this would certainly be true-- all unemployed would receive as dole an amount equal to average local wages. Taxation necessary to provide the $12,000,000,000 yearly to finance this Act would be raised by levying a higher tax on inheritance, gifts, individual and corporation incomes of $5,000 a year and over...
...proposed to cut the relief bill from $4,880,000,000 for work relief to $1,880,000,000, the absolute minimum required for a dole...
...flatly for an amendment to require the payment of the prevailing wage scale on work relief projects. The President had proposed and the Senate Appropriations Committee had approved with qualifications, setting men to work at $50 a month or thereabouts-roughly twice what they would get as a dole. The Administration had two reasons for its stand: 1) workers must not be led by high wages to seek relief jobs in preference to industrial jobs; 2) work relief at subsistence wages will double the cost of relief, but work relief at prevailing wages will add about 50% more to that...
...vignettes of life under the New Deal for landless, dole-less, hopeless share croppers 25 miles from Augusta, Ga., as seen by Erskine Caldwell...
Nearly one-fifth of the people of Southbridge, Mass. (pop. 14.000) had nothing to look forward to but the dole last month when 104-year-old Hamilton Woolen Co., unable to settle a strike, voted to shut up shop (TIME, Jan. 28). Last week Southbridge was jubilant once more. The cloth designers had been called back to prepare their patterns for autumn. That could mean only one thing: the mill was not to close. That day Hamilton Woolen's President Richard Lennihan announced that arrangements had been made to sell the company to U. S. Bunting Co. of Lowell...