CWA officials at Dayton, Tenn. last week added up their jobless: 2,000. Then they added up the jobs they had to distribute: 299. While they were wondering what to do, the jobless started a riot.
At the little courthouse where eight years ago William Jennings Bryan expended his last mortal breath denying that man could ever have been a monkey, 1,000 broke loose from a citizens' meeting called to protest CWA relief methods. They seized a county superintendent, carried him to the edge of town, ordered him to leave the county. A noisy deputation...
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