CORRUPTION IN U.S.A.
RELIEF AND WAGES TO SOME. OTHERS BOLD AND STARVING. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, Jan. 26. While nearly 400,000 unemployed, many of them destitute, are anxiously awaiting an opportunity to get employment under the Civil Works Administration, that organisation is distributing food tickets representing about 100,000 dollars to 42,000 persons now on relief works getting three to 13 dollars a day. It was revealed here to-day in a further investigation into the alleged graft, corruption and mismanagement within the W’orks Administration that minor officials were unable to explain why both wages and charity were being given to some people while others were suffering hunger and cold.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1934, Page 7
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