Roofing paper is specified at $5 per square. whereas the best quality of 85pound roofing paper can be purchased in his town for $2.40 per square. He vehemently protested the governmental procedure of paying more for materials than their cost in the open market. He further called my attention to the fact that the families of noncitizens are receiving from the Government as high as $60 per month. while citizens are complaining they do not receive equal consideration. According to his letter. the morale of our people is being rapidly brought to the lowest ebb. due to incompetency and the lack of sympathetic understanding on the part of the political appointees who are handling the relief and workrelief problems in southern California. In one instance he mentioned that 200 men were going through the motions of working on an acre and a half of land in one of the community gardens. which would indicate that we have worse than a dole since procedure of this kind is demoralizing in the extreme.
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