The Gary Committee [ 341 ] existence the daily wages declined to fifty cents. The Subcommittee on Unemployment among Women reduced wages in its shops only as a last resort and complained to the committee that "the women employed are in most cases the only persons in their families who have any work at all!'30 Others protested more bitterly. A social workers' association wrote to Chairman Gary that "the wage paid is quite inadequate in cases of men with families"; and the Clothing Cutters' Union sent a blistering resolution denouncing the wages and suggesting a correction: "We as workers" they announced, "feel that this is humiliating and degrading the working people of New York City.... We endorse the standard wage, $2.50 per day for unskilled labor!'81 But the committee simply did not have the funds to pay such wages. The administration provided nothing, and, despite constant appeals to the public, the $180,000 that the committee received in contributions amounted to only half the sum it had requested. Instead of the "People's Fund" that Henry Bruere had hoped for, the money came primarily from the donations of a dozen individuals, including several committee members. After these major contributors had given what they would, there was little for the committee to work with and no one else to whom it could turn.82 Many, like Amos Pinchot, brother of the famous forester, had little sympathy for the committee and its financial troubles. Pinchot was a reformer and seasoned gadfly who had long opposed both Gary and Perkins. He attacked the Mitchel administration for appointing these leaders of the "Steel Trust" to a committee to aid the unemployed, and he charged that they were doing nothing of any value. Pinchot's charges were particularly embarrassing when the United States Steel Corporation, of which Gary and Perkins were directors, issued its yearly report. Because of the war in Europe, the corporation had lost two hundred million dollars in income and as a result had discharged fifty thousand employees. That this should occur while the Gary committee was urging employers to increase employment seemed to Pin- 30 Ibid., March 6, 1915; "Report of the Chairman of the Mayor's Sub-Committee on Unemployment among Women" February 15,1915, Perkins Papers. 81 Association of Neighborhood Workers to Elbert Gary, February 28,1915, and Jacob Friedman et al. to Perkins, March 5,1915, Perkins Papers. 32Times, January 1,1915, March 19,1915; "ConMbutions to the Mayor's Committee on Unemployment" April 22,1915, Mitchel Papers.