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Works Progress Administration (view source)
Revision as of 18:07, September 7, 2007
, 18:07, September 7, 2007→Misuse of Federal funds to give jobs and buy elections: edit
A man in Plymouth, Pa., was given a whitecollar relief job before election at $60.50 a month. He was told to change his registration from Republican to Democratic. He refused and very soon found himself transferred from a whitecollar job to a pickaxe job on a rock pile in a quarry. There he discovered others on the rock pile who had refused to change their registration.
A man in Plymouth, Pa., was given a whitecollar relief job before election at $60.50 a month. He was told to change his registration from Republican to Democratic. He refused and very soon found himself transferred from a whitecollar job to a pickaxe job on a rock pile in a quarry. There he discovered others on the rock pile who had refused to change their registration.
Ten days before the Pennsylvania primary registrations a letter signed by Democratic leader of the 14th ward in Philadelphia was issued which read,
:Dear Committeemen :
:Contact all houses in your division and get the names of all men on relief, also of those holding WPA jobs . Urge them to register Democratic on March 26 or else lose their jobs. <ref>''Philadelphia Inquirer'', March 28, 1936.</ref>
===Tennessee===
===Tennessee===
===Illinois===
===Illinois===
In Cook County, Illinois, where Kelly and Nash carried the New Deal banner, 450 men were employed in one election district and dismissed the day after election. Seventy reported to do highway work and were told to go to their voting precincts and canvass for votes for the HornerCourtneyLucas ticket. These 450 men cost $23,268. All of them had their workcards initialed by the campaign manager in Northern Illinois for the HornerCourtneyLucas ticket.
In Cook County, Illinois, where Kelly and Nash carried the New Deal banner, 450 men were employed in one election district and dismissed the day after election. Seventy reported to do highway work and were told to go to their voting precincts and canvass for votes for the HornerCourtneyLucas ticket. These 450 men cost $23,268. All of them had their workcards initialed by the campaign manager in Northern Illinois for the HornerCourtneyLucas ticket.
===West Virginia===
{{Cquote|I hand you herewith a list of doctors in Ohio county. Kindly separate the Democrats and the Republicans and list them in order of priority so we may notify our safety foremen and compensation men as to who is eligible to participate in case of injury."<ref>From a letter written by the State Relief Administrator of West Virginia to a county relief Supervisor, as read before the Senate by Sen. Rush Holt, Democrat of West Virginia.</ref>}}
==Senate Investigating Committee findings==
==Senate Investigating Committee findings==