RELIEF PROGRAMME
Roosevelt Requests Funds LARGE CUT ON LAST YEAR (Received March 19, 10.35 p.m.) New York, March IS. . President Roosevelt has asked Congress to appropriate 1,500,000,000 dollars for works progress administration to carry his relief programme through the 1936-7 fiscal year, this representing a decrease of 500,000,000 dollars compared witli the previous year. The President coupled his message with an appeal to private industry to put more people to work. If this is not done supplementary relief appropriations will be necessary. The President estimated that 5,300,000 heads of families and single persons are now dependent upon relief. A Treasury statement shows the public debt at a new high level of 31,447,000,000 dollars due to the recent heavy Treasury financing.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 150, 20 March 1936, Page 11
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