For thinning corn from dawn to dark a farmer's helper is lucky to get $2 per day. Many a factory hand gets hardly more. But CWA puts jobless men to work at 50¢ an hour$3 for a six-hour day of not too arduous labor. Last week in Toledo four metal manufacturers complained that workers whom they were paying between 35¢ and 40¢ under an NRA code were deserting to take better-paying CWA jobs. While relief officials were investigating, Georgia's Governor Talmadge charged that CWA was also hiring help away from the...
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