The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
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Unemployment Body
Acts to Rally Support
In NY. ReIief Struggle
F e deraI Administrator
Firm in Refusal of
Funds to JObless

NEW YORK.-Following WelfaEs
Commissioner Hodson's starvatit--
order to stop all relief payments B..
the 10000 families on the city's
home and work relief, Federal Re-
lief Administrator Harry L. Hop
kins yesterday announced that the
Federal government would advance
no more funds to New York until
the city met its share,
Demanding that the Federal Re-
| lief Administrator make immediate
and adequate provision for the New
York joblesS, the National Unem-
/ ployment Council Yesterday tele-
graphod Harry Hopkins.
1.-THE present suffering Of these
jobless,' the telegram read, "re-
fleets the suffering OF the workers
in every part of the country as 4
result Of the failure Of the Federal
government to enact adequate un-
employment insurance"
After citing that this will serve
to intensity the fight for the Work
ers' Unemployment Insurance Bill,
the telegram pledges that all the
unemployed will be modified to
support the New York joblcss.
No Checks to Be Issued
Welfare Commissioner Hodson
said that his order to stop all re-
lief payments would halt the dis
tribution of at least $1,000 checks
daily Each check represents the
two-week allowance for each FAM
( lily on relief for food. light, gas and
rents, the last of which are paid
in vouchers. About 100000 is held
up daily in home and work relief
payments, he said
Meanwhile, w. j. Wilgus, relief
works director, in a letter to all
project supervisors, department.
heads and borough engineers, said
that until further notice no checks
will be issued for wages. His state
ment said that 'ff the men con-
time to work on the jobs they viii
be paid for the time so worked Il
and when the funds become avail
able" No promise that WAGES
would be paid was made.
The order to stop al relief pay
ments was made BY Hodson on
Saturday after a conference with
Mayor LaGuardia. following the
refusal of the Board of Aldermen
to pass the LaGuardia relief tax
schemes.
Adults Vouchers Are Worthless
Hodson, who has supported the
LaGuardia relief tax scheme to tax
the working population, yesterday
attacked the aldermen for failure
to pass the tax plan While order
ing ell cash relief in every form
stopped. Hodson announced plans
were under way to issue food
vouchers. These vouchers, Hold
son announced, will be stamped
valid when and if relief funds are
available Whether the unem-
ployed will be able to use them will
depend upon the willingness of the
grocers to accept Them" he added.
LaGuardia admitted that they were
worthless, saying, the grocers
would probably discount them i'm
mediately."
Just as the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration has refused
10 advance funds to the city for re-
lief, the State Temporary Emer-
gcncy Relief Administration has
announced that it will not provide
funds for the present period unless
| the city meets its share" Under
the present set-up the city pays %
per cent, the state an equal amount
and the federal government pays
the balance, so per cent.
Money For other Purposes
City Comptroller McGoldrick, who
insisted that the city has no money
with which to meet present relief
obligations, later admitted that the
money was on hand, but is ear
marked for other purposes" Still
later. he said that IF it becomes
absolutely necessary, and there is no
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