The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-11-23

Washington, Nov. % --- Out OF
President Roosevelt's thoughtful de-
liberations during his vacation" on
the high seas may come the flrst
plan for permanent program
which will treat unemployment and
relief as q longtime problem.
His most intimate advisers have
urged such q plan upon him and
believe 1t Is In the cards now that
the worst OF the depression Is pass
ed and the president faces four more
years In office. limitations dropped
by Roosevelt indicate he Is think
Ing in that direction.
Officials have told Roosevelt
they will need around S5BO,O 900
to carry the federal works pro-
gram through the fiscal year end.
Ing June 30, 1897. WPA chiefs
privately expect 70 run out Of
funds by February, which means
Congress must act soon after II
convenes In January.
For tho next fiscal year, estimates
run up TO $2,600, 000, 600, but Roose-
Velt's budget estimates are likely to
be well below that.
II should be realized that although
the congressional relief appropria-
ton for l936-37 was only el, 426 900.
600, the full works program for this
fiscal year will cost more than 93,-
600, 000,000 when you count use OF
unexpended balances and anticipate
ed deficiency appropriations.
Men close to the president point
out that II he can cut that by o
billion no will have made q real
showing.
Relief Problem Permanent
Convinced that the unemploy-
ment and relief problems are con-
slant, however, high New Dealers
ere even more concerned with for
mulating an integrated program
which will eliminate as much un-
employment In az many ways as
possible and ut the same time get
federal relief activity on per-
manent, co-ordinated, and Efficient
basis.
The present Social Security Act,
subject 10 certain changes, ID con-
sidered q cornerstone.
II Roosevelt accepts recommen-
datl0ns Of WPA Administrators
Harry Hopkins, he will push for
legislation 10 shorten working
hours In industry, for an unem-
pldyment census, for rigid child
labor laws, for minimum wages,
for o lower minimum age limit
an old age pensions and insur.
ance, and for q permanent WPA
10 tide over workers who can't
find Jobs NJ periods when they're
not covered by unemployment In.
hhrAnce.
Hopkins Ia understood TO believe
that boys and girls should be kept
In school until they are Is years
old. He has said that there are
100000 persons over Sd years OF
age In industry. An ie.years.old
law would take somewhere between
two and three millions out OF In
dustry. i,.
Burden still Heavy
Although the relief burden has
been decreasing and Hopkins esti-
mates there will be O million fewer
cases on WPA and local relief this
winter the problems OF unemploy-
ment and relief remain huge.
Half the unemployed have new
or received aid. It Ia from that half
that the increased ranks OF labor In
industry, the WPA, and the local
relief rolls receive most OF their 70.
cruits, which Ia ono reason why
business and employment can pick
up without corresponding decreases
on relief and works rolls.
IL An estimated that at one pc.
riod there were about 100000
unemployed and q peak Of $780,.
600 cases receiving aid. EstlmAt-
Ing today's unemployed at be.
tween eight and eleven million
tho differences In still between
four and seven million.
Hopkins says unemployment has
decreased 40 per cent from peak and
the relief load has dropped 30 per
cent from peak. He points out that
industrial production is now about
IN NOR cent below 1920 and accents