UNEMPLOYMENT
U.S.A. RELIEF
116 MILLION DOLLARS FOR WORKS.
United Prßse Association- Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
WASHINGTON, December 20.
Congress has passed, and President Hoover has signed measures appropriating 116 million dollars for an immediate emergency construction work in aid of the national unemployment relief, and forty-five million dollars for drought relief. Congress finally allowed the President to allocate • those-funds after the .amendment to leave the control in the hands of congress was defeated. Senators Walsh (Massachusetts) and La Folletto both assailed the measure as being only a “drop in the bucket” and they demanded additional appropriation to be expended for- direct relief. rather than through public works.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1930, Page 6
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