Competition

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-c- 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-c- and 40-c- 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 farm. He complained that Federal authorities would not listen to his protests. CWAdministrator Hopkins retorted: "All that guy is after is headlines. He doesn't contribute a dime but he's always yapping. Some people just can't stand to see others making a living wage." Three days later NRAdministrator Johnson leaped into the controversy to declare: "It's perfectly absurd for CWA to pay higher wages than private industry can afford to pay under codes. Government money distributed that way is practically a dole. Industry cannot give doles. Hopkins' talk about decent subsistence wages is just a lot of adjectives to me." Administrator Hopkins shrugged his shoulders, went off to see the President. That afternoon the President intimated that CWA wages would be modified wherever they seemed out of line with wages in reputable industries.

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