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4-2171 FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRAT ION For Immediate Releas e Friday, October 11, 1940. mrnTER CITES ACTS OF CONGRESS DISPROVING BARTON CHARGE TB'.A.T ARMY FUND WAS SPENT ON RELIEF Charge s attribut ed to Congr essman Bruce Barton tha t money specifically app rop ria t ed for national defense had been used for t he CWA relief program are "utt erly false, as anyone who examines the Acts of Congr ess will s e e , 11 Howard O. Hunter, Acting Commissioner of Work Projects, said t oday. 11 It is d ifficult to beli eve t hat a Member of Con0 ress should know so little about the Acts of Congress as t o make the st a t ement at tributed in press dispatches t oday to Congr essman Barton of How York , 11 Mr . Hunter sn.id. "Having , , seen no correction of t he glaring misstatonont that $3,000,000,000 app r opriat od for t ho specifi c purpose of mechan i zing tho Army in 1933 was us ed to finan ce CWA, I wish to set the record straight . 11 'When CWA was sot up by executi ve order, lfovornber 9, 1933 , funds totaling a1)proxi mately $400,000,000 out of tho $3,300~·,ooo,OOO authorized by Secti on 220 of tho National Industrial Rocovory Act, were allocat ed by the Public Works Afuainist r a ti on to finance t his program . "Although tho National I ndus trial Rocovery Act d.id not mention the strengthening of our armed f orc 0s in its declaration of policy, mUlio is of dollars wore spent for national defense out of tho $3 ,300 ,000,000 then appropriated This was under tho discr etion granted. the President , r athe r t han any specific J appropriation for such purpose, and was continued u...'l.til Congress its elf p r ohibit ed su ch u se of the fund.s . "Sub sequently, $87,rl,77,000 was transf0rred. dir0ct from Fodernl Emergency Digitized by Original from Relief Aclm:f1IDfffi-l\tlf~ ~"PffiPJt\JNlSf E~~ 11&WA--out of fnnd SN@'P,~jl;j.~~E1f\1~5lqt¥ ly for 4-2171 - 2 - reli ef pr ogr ams . The fin al appropriation of funds fo r CWA came February 15, 1934, when an aid i t i onal $335,616, 000 was made available by Congress. Agai n the aut h0 ri :m.ti on was specifically for this type of progrrun, with no r eference to the Army . 11 Some funcls out of tho roli of app ropri ation acts have been transferred to the War Department for the operation of pro jects a iding national defense and employing relief l n.bor- -but there is no r ec ord of ony Army funds ever having been transferred t o the · CWA, or any other r el i ef agency, for the employment of r eli ef l abo r . 11 0000000 Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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