Show RELIEF AGENCY LEADERS HEAR FEDERAL AIMS It J Emergency cy Funds Will Not Be fe t Linked With Starvation Starvation- Wage Wag Projects r B Dr m DETROIT June 17 Harry 17 Harry L. L Hopkins Hopkins Hopkins Hop Hop- kins administrator of the federal deral emergency relief fund told the National Conference on Social Work today that he expects 1000 new public works projects to put men to work by October 1 He said the depression had plunged 4 families and individuals indi als' als from support sell to public dependency and outlined in detail I the policies to be followed by his adi ad ad- i ministration Mr Hopkins said that states must bear a fair share of the C costs of their own relief problems and tightening tightening tightening tight tight- that there must be cooperative ening of relief administration Hopkins said that of the forces now working to take people off the relief rolls and put them on pay rolls rolls' of employment the most important is the recently enacted trade trad recovery act met with its tremendous outlook for our consuming power i through the payment of ot wages to a a 8 I great Ireat number of workers Numerous instances have come tobis to his bis attention Hopkins said where em cm employers employers Ii h have a v e C approached relief agencies with the idea that they were rate cut-rate employment agencies where workers could be obtained at atless less than a supporting self wage I have no intention he said of of permitting federal relief funds becoming becom become jag ing involved in any situation where employers pay their workers starvation starvation stana tion wages and expect them to get relief relict from rom different agencies There is much saU satisfaction faction Mr Hopkins continued in realizing that the great majority of industrial employers cin em era- believe in paying paling a living wage I want the relief giving agencies to know that wherever they come under the federal emergency relief administration I back them wholeheartedly wholeheartedly wholeheartedly whole whole- heartedly in turning down any such attempts to take advantage of human distress |