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Nort1iw ... . , No. 4 - 1277 llnlversit l.lbrar: WORKS THE PROGRAM *** ') ,., I 1936 :· --Works Progress Administration-For Irnmediate Relec1se Thursday, August 13, 1936. w~A Studies in 13 Representativ e Cities Show Only 5 Per Cent of Works Program Workers Received Veterans' Bonus. Deputy Works Progress Administrator Aubrey Williams announced today tha t only 5 per cent of former urban relief cases with Works Program employment in June, 1936, received World War veterans• adjusted compensation certificates. Mr. Willia~s• announc~~ent was based on sample studies of 6,158 cases in 13 representative cities carried on by the Works Progress Administration 1 s Division of Social Research in conducting its regular survey of trends in the econo~ic status of former urban relief cases. 11 Fonner relief cases, wh ich a re now self-supporting through private employment, fared somewhut better, nearly 6 per cent of these cases receiving adjusted service bonds, 11 Mr. Williams said. 11 • This, 11 he added, 11 may be due to the fact that private industry has drawn extensively from the group of relief workers in the present age range of World War veterans (35 to 50 years). 11 As would be expected, cases with neither private nor Works Program anployment fell below the other groups. Slightly less than 4 per cent of these cases received the so-called bonus. 11 Mr. Williarns explained that the latter group included many unemployable cases which contained no men in the veterans' age range. The findings have no bearing upon the employment of persons on the Works Program as the IDnergency Relief Act of 1936 provides that the fact that a person is entitled to receive an adjusted-service bond shall not be considered in determining actual need of work-relief employment. The studies were carried on in Atlanta, Baltimore, ~ridgeport, Butte, Chicago, Detroit, Hou.st on, Manchester, Omaha, Paterson, St. Louis, San Francisco and Wilkes-Barre. Digitized by , NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ---000--- Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY . ···
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