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Show F. D. R, ASKS RELIEF FUNDS WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 U.E I President Roosevelt asked con-1 gress for $790,000,000 for relief j and related projects in the next i five months and warned business again that relief costs can be reduced re-duced only by private reemploy- j ment. I The President's request for a deficiency appropriation to provide pro-vide funds for the remainder of the fiscal year from Feb. 1 to June 30 was addressed to the speaker of the house of representatives. repre-sentatives. The problem of relief has diminished, the president said. He estimated that at the beginning of this winter 6,000,000 more workers were employed in non-agricultural non-agricultural jobs than in March 1933. He said more than 1,000,000 of these re-employed persons had found jobs with private industry during the past year. But the president complained that recovery has been accompanied accom-panied recently by a "tendency toward a longer work week" and he charged that some employers "who are working their employes unreasonably long hours are failing fail-ing to co-operate with the government gov-ernment and their fellow citizens in putting people back to work. |