Why is it that the Common Council will only allow $10 to be paid to the unemployed for rent, from the welfare, while it goes on record to increase the mayor's pay from $900 to $3,000 a year? ... [hand

$40 · Offered by Bolerium Books

Corning, NY: Corning Unemployment Council, [193-]. 8.5x11 inch mimeographed handbill, very good. Cartoon at top shows a mother with four children complaining at a Home Relief office that she can't find a house for $10 a month. The clerk suggests, "Well, rent two rooms then..." Enumerates complaints about unemployment relief..... More

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