Show one in m seven on relief VELVE million american worker TWELVE are totally unemployed more than persons or one seventh of the population of the country are receiving public assistance from the ted fed 1 eral state or local governments from 1933 to 1937 inclusive the federal and state governments have spent tor for work relief and other forms of pub lie lie assistance fa these tar far from cheerful f figures i agures gures were in a preliminary report of the senate committee on relief and unemployment submitted by chairman byrnes at the time the report came in harry hopkins administrator was telling the house appropriations committee holding heS hearings rings on the administrations recovery relief program that the proposed 1 relief appropriation N would enable to be added to federal aid rolls bringing the total number to persons this money he said would last only for the first seven months of the e coming fiscal year he refused th to estimate how bow much would be needed thereafter the senate committee report in general absolved the from charges of graft waste and inefficiency but in some respects it sharply criticized the administrations relief relict policies to the discomfiture of administration leaders the committee recommended that the senates revenue reve nue bill repealing the undistributed profits tax and modifying the capital gains tax be adopted as a major aid to economic recovery retention of those taxes is in the house bill backed by president roosevelt |