AMERICAN MUDDLE
UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF. DISTRIBUTION TO DESTITUTE.
400,000 PEOPLE AFFECTED. (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 26. While nearly 400,000 unemployed many of them destitute, were anxiously awaiting an opportunity to get Civil Works Administration organisation was distributing food tickets representing about 100,000' dollars to 42,000 persons now on relief work and getting 13 dollars a day, it was revealed here to-day, in further investigation into alleged graft and corruption on tho part of minor officials, who wer-c unable to explain why both wages and charity were being given to some people, while others were suffering from hunger and cold.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 91, 27 January 1934, Page 6
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