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Last week, to Governor Talmadge's great glee, Administrator Hopkins abruptly canceled FERA's 30?-per-hour minimum wage rate for work relief, established last spring after the wind-up of CWA. Frankly admitted was the fact that in some communities the Government has been paying wages higher than private employers for the same work. Hereafter work relief pay will be scaled to community wage rates...
...Alfred Bingham, editor of Common Sense, Felix J. Frazer and Harold Loeb. Messrs, Loeb and Frazer were handy associates of Mr. Reed. Last spring they were employed under the auspices of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to make a National Survey of Potential Product Capacity in the U.S. When FERA gave up supporting the survey, New York City's Public Welfare Department saw it through. Three months ago one researcher, Robert R. Doane, caused a sensation by charging that the facts found by the survey showed that the economy of plenty was one of "the distorted, synthetic concepts...
...Federal, State and local governments (must) act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced." (This explains the FERA, the PWA, the CWA, and other economies...
...President, Franklin Roosevelt tossed philosophy overboard, faced facts. His choice lay between direct Federal relief and mass starvation accompanied by almost inevitable rebellion. Promptly- through CWA, PWA, CCC, FERA-he began pouring public millions into private pockets. As the Government rushed in to support and finally almost supplant private charity, solvent citizens took notice. Since they were paying the Federal relief bill through taxation, they began to doubt the practical necessity of any longer subscribing to private charities. In 1932, 120 cities contributed $57,800,000 to private charities. Last year the same cities contributed...
...explanation for the difference undoubtedly lies in the workings of the educational division of the FERA. Disturbed by the fact that college enrollments have dropped in the last few years while the number of high school graduates has risen, Washington last winter determined to help boys and girls of good scholastic standing to continue their studies. The relief administration therefore made $13,500,00 available to aid students who are working, or who would work, their way through college. Beginning this fall, it is employing several thousand at 30 cents an hour on projects of an educational character...