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Show mm imm mm mmun m wsmn hirty-Hour Week FGets Indorsements - From Both Sides CeSaoraUry Perkina Moata With ' .. Laadara of Workara In Spaclal Parlay e favW BBBMKTsVtoli! arTMsrl .ITASHINGTON. March Il-c-saetsy franc Perkina and more than -a ,niii of repreernUiUve of er-a.aeas er-a.aeas ired labor found themeelves m ij-s today oa many phases ot a yiraed program far the Imavoveeaenl " leaor and unemployment condi Tis thst ssch brought to a con fkrence. Each agreed that there should be Shorter working hours, higher wsfae, a pubikt work program, relief for the owners ef mortgsged home, unemployment un-employment Insurance, and ,a wide variety ot Changs In aiUn con ditlon. An outline at US view of ths sec retsry of labor and th labor or ganuation wm given by eech side s they went Into th eonurreoce, rerled by Miss Perkins at to request erf President Roosevelt, -It aurpas I to gst In detail the Is o of labor oa BMihad to bid amptoyment aad relief step to be Iskrn and reconcile them. If posslbls. Wilh the admiaisirsUen's viewpotnL As UM meeting began. William Creen. president ot th American Federation ef Labor, Issued a statement state-ment outlining his erganlMtlon's view. Almost simultaneously one came from Um labor deeartinent tVMUO WORK! PROGRAM ' "President Rnosevslt Is now formu-sakrong formu-sakrong plan for an exlenalve public aenrks program and tor Um relief ef gasman home onnors. a,aMiM Perkins' statemont advanced ajja opinion that labor la Um admlnia trsllon of unemployment relief should be rape seen led an suit relief board and should participate In Mtiinf administrauv i lender da concerning con-cerning the amount ot relief allowed, the Item In Um budget to be covered y these grants, the liibllty of applicants, ap-plicants, prevision tor Um home lees end transient, type ef work euit-,4bl euit-,4bl for work relief prelect. , and rales of pay on work relief. Among other things, the Oreea proposal pro-posal called for a billion dollar ap- propria tion for unemployment relief send Um launching at a hug program enVpubll works. ... The resort brouxht Into the meetin by Mies Perkina Mid about 4.100.000 fsmilM and SOOOus single persons were receiving public relief la toe section, of Um United Slate to which federal funds war available. It added that theee sections contained about three-fourths af the total population. INCRBASB IS SHOWN Itoporto froni 124 HlleVonUlnlrui iproxlmately en fourth of the eoun-Vy's eoun-Vy's populsUoa Mid 1.0I7.S44 families Swvre receiving relief In January this tower, an Increase of M S par cent ever January, IMS. Approximately SS10O0 000 will be Spent from federal fund for relief during March. ISIS. Mlniua ot th Reconstruction Plnsnc corporation Mid. forming tram 79 to SO per cent of Um total s mount spent la Um sections sec-tions being aided. Mim Perlkna' report showed relief re-lief agenriM to 1M rltiM had spent approximately t-100 000 000 In lt.11. an InrrsMO of TS per cent ever 111. UnUl the fall ef 1SJI, relief funds came from local communities. At thst time, local funds began to be supplemented supple-mented by Ut appropriations. Beginning Be-ginning with July. I Ml. federal funds r-wer mode available, now totaling WtoOO.OOO.OOu. |