Send an E-Postcard of: "The Dilemma" political cartoon from the
Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper (c) Pocumtuck Valley Memorial
Association, Deerfield MA. All rights reserved. Contact us for
information about using this image. Industry in the United
States was not in favor of many of the New Deal programs
proposed in 1935. Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's federal
relief administrator was convinced that work should be the chief
antidote to poverty and used his influence with FDR to push for
federal programs to provide government-sponsored jobs for the
unemployed. Three months after this cartoon was printed, the
Works Progress Administration was established by executive order
with Hopkins as the head. top of page