Abstract

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The march on Washington to demand continuance of civil-works relief met with both victory and defeat. The 75 delegates representing 54 groups and some 47,000 CWA workers and unemployed in Greater New York were determined to lay their demands before the administrator in person. After some argument six spokesmen were admitted and given a fair and lengthy hearing. Their specific complaints of discrimination against African Americans and workers who engaged in organizing or refused to take the "pauper's oath" were met by a promise to investigate. To the delegates three basic demands—for jobs on an unemployment rather than a "need" basis, abolition of the means test, and official indorsement of the Workers' Unemployment and Social Insurance bill—the administrator replied categorically that he would not advocate them.