Administrator's records, 1933-1934.

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Administrator's records, 1933-1934.

Correspondence with divisional offices and State and Milwaukee County relief organizations, in addition to reports, minutes of meetings, petitions, resolutions, and procedural issuances. Records (on roll 96) were filmed July 1941. Included are copies of speeches by Work Projects Administration (WPA) State Director Robert C. Johnson, organization charts for the Wisconsin WPA structure, transcripts of radio addresses by the Wisconsin State Director of Unemployment Relief Alfred W. Briggs and WPA Coordinator W.L. Coffey, reports of the Women's Work Division, and issues of the internal Civil Works Administration newsletter the "Cooperator."

1 microfilm reel.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6831324

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United States. Federal Civil Works Administration

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The Civil Works Administration was established by EO 6420-B, November 9, 1933, under authority of the National Industrial Recovery Act (48 Stat. 200), June 16, 1933, to provide relief work for unemployed persons through public work projects. Functioned simultaneously, and to some extent with the same personnel, with Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). Liquidated March 1934, and functions and records transferred to the Emergency Relief Program of FERA. From the description...