RELIEF GRANT
SOUGHT FOR O.S.A. WORKERS. (United Press Association—By Electtif Telegraph—Copyright). WASHINGTON, April 27, President Roosevelt has sent a message to Congress asking for a 1,750,000,000 dollar appropriation for the 1940 fiscal year for the Works Progress Association relief system. The President commented upon the allegations that there are few unemployed persons in the totalitarian nations. He stressed his contention that such works as that in those States was based, for tb e greater part, on “manufacture of munitions, which cost far more than our system. I trust that our people will not assume that the totalitarian States’ methods sff Government are more effective than ours.’’
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1939, Page 5
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