Springville Herald | 1939-04-13 | Page 3 | WPA Rolls must be Cut by 400,000

WPA ROLLS 1 MUST BE CUT ? BY 400,000 failure of Senate to Vole ;4 $150,000,000 Means ,v; Reduction "8 'I: WASHINGTON, April 11 nl (U.R) President Roosevelt to-c, to-c, day asserted that senate fail-n'; fail-n'; ure to vote $150,000,000 for . relief during the remaining u'j. two and one-half months of the fiscal year would cause the dismissal of approximately approximate-ly 400,000 WPA workers. 1 The senate was expected to vote ill late today on a proposal to raise the pending $100,000,000 bill to ; $150,000,000. In a letter to Sen. Claude Pep-1:- per, D Fla., who took up the '; fight for $150,000,000 after administration admin-istration senate leaders agreed to e '-compromise on the lower figure, 1 r Mr. Roosevelt said that the ques- ' tion "is one of arithmetic." Ci.-"Nothing To Add" if "In reply to your inquiry," s:. the, president wrote, "I think t there is nothing for me to Sr.. add or subtract from what I ;J ;, lutvft miide so clear on so i !-. many occasions since last ,j . .January. "The sole question of continuing ,. relief to July first is one of arith-ni.metic. arith-ni.metic. "If $100,000,000 is voted, be-;r:.tween be-;r:.tween 300,000 and 400,000 fewer :people can be given work relief fr than if $150,000,000 is voted and in addition, practically none of . the 700,000 or 800,000 people on Hie waiting list can be given em-.ployment. em-.ployment. "Tt seems to nio," the president concluded, "lhat that is the long and short of it."