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expectation that by doing this normal employment at normal wages would be given to persons qualified and competent to do the skilled and unskilled work required, and that the contractors would be stimulated to revive their business, that the supply industries would be stimulated, that it would have a far-reaching effect beyond the employment in situ.

Let me just say that the public works program had no relation whatever to the works Progress Administration. They were differently conceived for different purposes and had never any connection in anybody's mind. The Works Progress Administration was an outgrowth of a relief measure. It was an emergency relief measure. The PWA was a basic economic measure, while WPA was a superficial relief measure. They never did any substantial public works in WPA.





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