UNEMPLOYMENT IN U.S.A.
RELIEF DURING WINTER 23,000,000 TO BE PROVIDED FORV (United Press Association—By Electric-.-. ; Telegraph—Copyright) - WASHINGTON, 2nd September.; ’ ' A report by President- Roosevelts “ Executive Council to-day’declared that \'i five million families, comprising aboqt 23 million persons’, must he provided with relief funds : iiv the coining winter' ) at an'unprecedented cost to the Federal Government. The report pointed out * that the steadily increasing cost of living, now estimated at 20 per cent, above the. low point of the depression, made More generous doles to the unemployed'’necessary. Coincidental with this startling .information/ the .Commerce Department -published 'a, monthly survey showing unusual-.declines in nearly every field of bu&ihess 'activity in July, and early.. August : with employment pay 'rolls', dewn more than the., usual „ se ason M amount.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 4 September 1934, Page 5
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124UNEMPLOYMENT IN U.S.A. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 4 September 1934, Page 5
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