Financial records of early relief agencies, 1932-1935.

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Financial records of early relief agencies, 1932-1935.

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Financial records of the Wisconsin Emergency Relief Administration and its predecessors; including the cash book, journal, and other records of receipts and disbursements of the Unemployment Relief Trust Fund, the Bureau of Unemployment Relief, and the Citizens' Committee on Reemployment.

0.6 c.f. (3 volumes)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6842315

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Industrial Commission of Wisconsin

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The Industrial Commission was created by Chapter 485, Laws of Wisconsin, 1911. Prior to 1911 various agencies existed to administer the labor laws, chief among them being the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics (WIHV95-A529), which had been created in 1883. The Bureau was authorized to collect labor statistics and enforced the factory safety laws, but was inadequately staffed to accomplish its tasks. In 1911, the Workmen's Compensation Law was passed and the Industrial Acciden...

Wisconsin. Emergency Relief Administration

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In April 1934 the Wisconsin Emergency Relief Administration was established as a department of the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin (see WIHV85-A2180). It absorbed the Unemployment Relief Department, the Wisconsin Transient Service, the drought relief program, and the work program initiated by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration upon the termination of the Civil Works Administration. The WERA continued to function until December 1935 when, by executive order, it was superseded by the P...