Word: doling
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...Dole!" groaned conservative citizens last November when it was announced that Relief Administrator Hopkins would put 4,000,000 unemployed on direct Federal payrolls to do civil works. The awful example of Great Britain's dole army was conjured. Once on, the unemployed could never be taken off the Dole, said the prophets. There would be riots, bloodshed, insurrection. Administrator Hopkins heeded not at all. By December he had hired his 4,000,000 men. In mid-February, still heedless of the conservatives' lugubrious prophecy, he began to fire them again, promising to extinguish...
...represent 100,000 unemployed in Philadelphia, New York and other eastern cities. But Mr. Hopkins was pleased. Save for workers on a few special projects, he had fired his 4,000,000 CWA workers almost a month earlier than he had promised, he had reduced the Government's dole bill from some $70,000,000 a week (which it had been under the CWA) to the same amount per month-and there had been neither bloodshed nor riot...
...Congress, will include not even a token payment on Britain's War debt to the U. S. The two most insistent demands are for a lowering of the income tax at least sixpence in the pound, and restoration of the 10% cut in the Dole which was adopted three years ago. Politically it will be almost impossible to do one without the other. Even though unemployment dropped by 117,000 last month, restoration of the Dole alone will cost $65,000,000 or two-fifths of the entire surplus. There remain restoration of the sinking fund payments suspended last...
...reduction in the income tax was none less than the Most Reverend William Temple, Archbishop of York. Long regarded as a parlor pink by most of the Conservatives of his flock, His Grace would leave income taxes where they are, apply almost the whole surplus to increasing the dole and relieving unemployment. In all churches of the Archdiocese of York last week appeared posters begging prayers "for the Divine guidance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...other words what is being discussed is a form of penalty on efficiency or size, a government dole or subsidy to those who are unable to compete with other units in the same line of business. This may come in the form of special grants or exemptions from working hours or wages or it may come in the extension of capital credit through the enlargement of the credit system now being widely discussed...