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Show RELIEF PAYMENTS IN CASH ADVISED Recommendations that workers on relief projects be paid in cash rather than in kind ware made by a group of city and county commissioners snd relief officials Saturday following a meeting with representatives of the unemployed at tha cspitol. The committee members explained, however, that they are without authority au-thority to act and that their recommendations recom-mendations for payment for work In caxh were personal expressions. The group, called to hear the petition pe-tition of the unemployed by Govs nor Henry H. Blood, who was attend ing a board of pardons meeting, con sisted of Mayor Ora Bundy of Ogden, Mayor R. E. West of Price, City Commissioners Com-missioners John M. Knight. George O. Keyser, H. L. Lee, County Commissioners Commis-sioners B. F. Quinn and Alvin A. Beesley, Hugo B. Anderson, secretary secre-tary of the community chest; Church P. Castle. William R. Wallace, D. D. Muir and A. E. Hedquist members of the governor's executive committee on relief. The unemployed committee, heeded heed-ed by Oscar Larson, reputed communist com-munist leader, presented demands asking for payment for work In cash, removsl of guarda from relief agencies, agen-cies, representation of unemployed on state and county relief committees. The governor's committee took no action on the last two demands. The meeting with the governor's committee followed a two-hour mass meeting of more than 500 unemployed on the steps leading to the house of representatives. Speakers at the mass meeting, which waa presided over by John Nsson, chsrged the unemployed ar being "punished for being unemployed. |