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COST OP RELIEF WORKS. demand that wealthy SHOULD PAY. ( t- " ITED P Tvf S ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—GOPYiIIGHT.) (Received December 9th, 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Dec.mber 8. enator \\ alsh, in a bitter address contemning President Hoover's unemre:ief proposals and exhorting e Democrats to prepare their own programme, demanded that the rich s lou d pay the cost of supplying the \\orkless with jobs. "Soup kitchens and free beds have their place as stopgaps, but what the unemployed want is not a dole; they want the opportunity to work," he declared. "Those who have incomes of 50,000 and 100,CKW .and 1,000,000 dollars per year have got to meet the expense of this emergency. I ca |] on ti iese men with their fortunes for increased taxes." lie drew attention to speeches recently made by prominent men, where warnings were given of the danger of a social revolution unless the problems of nnemplovment and the depression wore solved.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 10 December 1930, Page 11
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