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Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Trout, in charge of the south tower, sends a message on the telautograph. It will go to many points in the Union Station including the station masters office, the information desk, the passenger agents' office, telephone information room, etc.

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Hopkins denies AGC Charges. Washington, D.C. October 11. In a radio speech this morning WPA Administrator, Harry Hopkins, denied charges made by the Associated General Contractors of America that the WPA should be blamed for labor shortage. He said that "WPA projects in communities have been efficiently run and that the unemployed on these projects have been well treated, when the AGC complained that cities were unable to find workers because they were all employed in the WPA. When charged of boondoggling, Hopkins replied that it reminded him of the "Old Story of the bandits in South America," He said "they are never in the town which you are visiting, they are always just over the hill, and the townspeople will tell you they are there but when you look for them you never find them"

Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. "Them WPAs are keeping us from a living. They oughtn't to do it. It ain't fair in no way. The government lays them off (that is in Work Projects Administration - 1939) and they come in because they're locals and take the jobs away from us that never had no forty-four dollars a month. I came out of Pennsylvania, used to be an oil worker. I'm getting along in years now and I seen lots of presidents and lots of systems. Voted for Roosevelt both times and I don't know of any president that ever leaned toward the laboring man like him, but this system they've got here in the fruit is a rotten system the way they work it." Yakima Valley, Washington

Highway City, California, near Fresno. See general caption. Family from Oklahoma; have been in California for six years, have been migratory workers now on Works Progress Administration (WPA) from which they may be cut off at the opening of the 1939 harvest. Their house represents one of many similar structures, which they are attempting to construct by their own efforts on poor land, for which they are paying a few dollars a month out of the WPA budget. Their light bill is two dollars a month. Water bill one dollar a month, kerosene for cooking five dollars per month, approximately. They own a 1929 Ford. "The cheapest thing for the government to do would be to put people like me on enough land to make a living on. You can't tell me anything about running around with the fruit, I know that deal. You are lucky if you make enough to get home. I'm not a kickin', I'm being tuk care of, but if I should live to be hundred this way I'm not getting ahead noways."

WPA Administrator Hopkins indicates to house plan to increase relief load. Washington, D.C., April 20. Appearing before the House Appropriations Committee today, WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins indicated in his testimony he was preparing to increase the relief load during the first seven months during the next fiscal year beginning July 1. Hopkins (left) is pictured as he explained the was figure which he said is necessary to President Roosevelt's $4,512,000,000 Recovery Drive, to Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum (center) Chairman of the Subcommittee, and Rep. Edward T. Taylor, a member of the Committee.

WPA workers stage march in fight for reinstatement. Washington, D.C. Aug. 24. Police were as numerous as the marchers today when over 2000 dismissed W.P.A. workers, assembled here by the Workers Alliance of America, staged a march to the White House, Capitol, and Harry Hopkins' office in their fight for reinstatement to their old jobs. 8/24/37

New WPA Administrator appears before House Appropriations Committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 6. Col. F.C. Harrington, new WPA Administrator, was the first witness today as the House appropriations Committee opened hearings on President Roosevelt's request for $875,000,000 to keep about 3,000,000 unemployed at work until June 30. Harrington, right, shown with Rep. Edward T. Taylor of Colorado, Chairman, said after testifying that a cut in the deficiency relief appropriation to $5000,000,000 would mean 'very drastic' reduction' in relief employment, 1/6/39

WPA workers stage march in fight for reinstatement. Washington, D.C. Aug. 24. Police were as numerous as the marchers today when over 2000 dismissed W.P.A. workers, assembled here by the Workers Alliance of America, staged a march to the White House, Capitol, and Harry Hopkins' office in their fight for reinstatement to their old jobs. 82437

WPA Head urges expansion of Federal Works Program. Washington, D.C., April 8. In urging an expansion of the Federal Works Program and Social Security Aids, WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins told the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today that about 18,000,000 men, women, and children in 6,000,000 households were receiving public assistance at present as compared to a peak of 27,000,000 persons on the winter of 1933-34. For the reason that some un-employment will always be with us, Hopkins told the committee that the country must plan a permanent security program, 4/8/38

Hopkins slams Gov. Landon. Harry Hopkins, administrator of FERA and head of WPA, tells reporters that Gov. Alf Landon of Kan., "balanced his budget in Kansas by taking money out of the hides of the needy." He said further that Landon's administration "had never put up a thin dime for relief." 11135

Hopkins denies AGC Charges. Washington, D.C. October 11. In a radio speech this morning WPA Administrator, Harry Hopkins, denied charges made by the Associated General Contractors of America that the WPA should be blamed for labor shortage. He said that "WPA projects in communities have been efficiently run and that the unemployed on these projects have been well treated, when the AGC complained that cities were unable to find workers because they were all employed in the WPA. When charged of boondoggling, Hopkins replied that it reminded him of the "Old Story of the bandits in South America," He said "they are never in the town which you are visiting, they are always just over the hill, and the townspeople will tell you they are there but when you look for them you never find them"

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Increased business volume key to recovery. Hopkins new Executive Assistant. Washington, D.C., April 13. In his first Press Conference today, Edward J. Noble, newly appointed Assistant to Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, told newsmen that he thought the key to recovery was to increase business volume. He said that if volume could be increased to a sufficiently high level, tax rates could be lowered without disturbing the government's revenue. 4-13-39

Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding division, yard number two. Pietro Cressano worked at the yard for seven months, and was in building construction work before that. He was born in America but both parents were born in Italy

A couple of men working on a piece of wood. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

PWA Administrator. Washington D.C., July 14. Harry Hopkins, WPA Administrator, arriving at the White House for a conference with President Roosevelt on housing, 7/14/37

Scene in a shop where high school boys help the workers after school hours to relieve the manpower shortage

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Farmers and townspeople playing cards in pool room on winter morning. Woodstock, Vermont

A black and white photo of a man and a dog, possibly related to: Construction worker, Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Calendar of religious ceremonies in Jer. [i.e., Jerusalem] Easter period, 1941. Processions of several distinct communities around the Rotunda

New Britain, Connecticut. Committee which launched a successful drive to utilize all available women for industrial and defense plants when the labor shortage became acute due to manpower being drafted into the Army

Wagner Labor Relations Act being frustrated by some municipal officials, NLRB chairman charges. Washington, D.C., Nov. 16. Speaking at the U.S. Conference of Mayors today, NLRB Chairman Warren Madden charged that the Wagner Labor Relations Act was being frustrated in some communities by municipal officials. At the same time, Madden appealed to the mayors for their cooperation in establishing an industrial democracy, 11/16/37

Salinas, California. Workman putting down duckboards in guayule nursery

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