GRAFT IN AMERICA
UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF
NEW YORK CITY
(Received January 27, 2 p.m.)
NEW YORK, January 26,
That while nearly 400,000 unemployed, many destitute, are anxiously awaiting an opportunity to get C.W.A. work, that organisation is distributing food tickets representing about 100,000 dollars to 42,000 persons now on relief work and getting from 3 dollats to 13 dollars a day, was revealed here today in farther investigation into alleged graft, corruption, and mismanagement within the Administration of Works.
Minor officials "were unable to explain why both wages and charity were being given to the same people while others were suffering from hunger and cold.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19340127.2.99.8
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 12
Word Count
104GRAFT IN AMERICA Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 12
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in