The Eighty-Ninth Press Conference of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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THE PRESIDENT: I am trying to find somebody right now. Have you any
ideas?
Q I have indeed. (Laughter) A very good man and a very good lady,
too.
Q Mr. President, do you care to discuss public reaction to your gold
message?
THE PRESIDENT: I have not read the papers yet. (Laughter)
Q Mr. President, there seems to be considerable complaint around the
country that wages paid to C.W.A. workers in some instances are
considerably higher than wages paid under the codes and prevailing
wages paid. Has there been any discussion or consideration of a
revision or anything of that sort, or have those complaints come
to you?
THE PRESIDENT: Only from Harry Hopkins. He told me about them and he
said there have been complaints from certain parts of the country,
as you say, and he is working on the possibility of cutting the
number of hours where the existing scale does give more than the
going rate in the locality. I do not know whether he has worked
out the plan yet and is putting it into effect but the result would
be to give a slightly smaller total for the week's work by working
less hours. He was working on it. I do not know whether it is
done or not.
Q We have heard complaints of people who quit jobs in private industry
and laid off for a week or two and got on the C.W.A.
THE PRESIDENT: There have been things of that kind and because the
C.W.A. is handled entirely by local relief organizations so far
as the names go, there are difficulties in places where there are
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