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Show Politics And Graft Wreck CWA Hailed at its beginning as a master mas-ter stroke the CWA is being demobilized. de-mobilized. Already employes are being dropped and by May 1st the last of the 4,000,000 workers will be off the payroll. Such a tctal obliteration of this undertaking can not be explained on the basis of eliminated necessity, necess-ity, although improvement in business bus-iness conditions justify some reduction re-duction in this employment. While no official announcement has been made, and none is expected, ex-pected, the CWA appears the victim of graft and politics. Probably, if the truth were known, its fponsors have been amazed at the manner in which a worthy undertaking has been taken advantage of. What do we mean? Simply that in practically every section of the nation men and women have been given CWA jobs when their condition condi-tion in life did not entitle them to any preference over others who were unable to get cn the payroll. Here and there local politicians and petty grafters took advantage of the opportunity offered by such u rapidly organized enterpri.se, and even Mr. Hopkins, a man of unquestioned un-questioned honesty, became discouraged, dis-couraged, telling reporters, "there is ! no doubt in my mind that the CWA is filled with graft." What else was there to do? Surely Sure-ly the government could not afford to ladle out dollars through an organization, or-ganization, which while accomplishing accomplish-ing much good, was also the instrument in-strument of satisfying the selfish greed of citizens who were willing to wreck the employment prospects of others by taking advantage of an opportunity for corrupt practices. |