oct 15, 1932 - Unemployment Relief Camps

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Labour camps created by P.M. Bennett that employed single, unemployed, and homeless men. Workers were paid $.20 a day and worked 44 hours a week building roads, planting trees, creating ditches, and other public infrastructure projects. Working conditions were horrible, and while the workers were given a place to sleep and eat, the beds were often infested with bugs and the food was trash.

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