Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-29
GRANT WILL retain
TEMPORARY FORCE
AS AID TO JOBLESS
80 Workmen to Be Employ
ed to Rae Structure
Damaged by Flames.
PARKS WALK PROGRAM
WILL BE CONTINUED
400 Other Part-Time Men Kept on
Rolls by Director Of Pub
lie Buildings.

Another move to alleviate unemploy-
ment conditions in Washington was
made today by Lieut.. Col. u. s. Grant,
ID, director Of public buildings and pub
lie parks, in the tearing down., very
shortly, of Temporary Building No. at
Twenty first and G streets. where the
Federal Trade Commission was located
before fire at the end Of August badly
damaged the structure. A force OF so
men, temporary employees Of Col. Grants
once, who would ordinarily be dis
charged shortly during the Winter
slack period, will be kept at work on de-
rnoushing the structure and salvaginS
the material from the RACED building.
First Lieut.. F. B. Butler, assistant di-
rector Of public buildings and pubic
parks, today made the announcement
saving that 1t was decided to utilize the
laborers Of the ONCE Ito retain tnese
temporary employees now on our Fo,,s S
rather than discharge them now ana
increase the number Of unemployed.
win Continue Program.
EFT has been decided to carry our
concrete sidewalk program In the paIks
A. until next Spring." Lieut. Butler said.
'"This will offer intermediate employ.
nent through the Winter months ana
is being done as q measure 70 ASSIST III
the unemployment situation"
Col. Grant secured the necessary
authorization from congressional leao-
ers to raze the old Federal Trade COM
mission Building at this time, RATHER
than wait until the session Is under way.
FEDERAL trade Commission employees are
now housed in the temporary BUILDING
Al Eighteenth and B streets, but IL Is
exnecfed that when the central portion
of the new Department OF Commerce
Buildine Is ready for occupancy, ABOUT
two months hence, space VIII De re-
leased In other buildings, TO mo new
home for the Federal Trade Commls-
sion.
win Use Site.
The site now occupied by the com
mission will be required next Spring Ior
the new 81 ,000,O0o ONCE oullolng OF tne
Pan-American Union.
Col. Grant recently decided to retain
400 part-time employees on the rolls, at
work In the parks. rather than release
them at this time Of year, as Is
AZ another step toward relieving UNI
employment locally, the District COM
rnissioners, on Recommendation OF n. y.
Whitehurst, District highway engineer,
Yesterday put the five-day week IN
erect in the highway department among
certain per diem employees. The enect
Of this plan will be that instead OF
dropping 80 to As per cent OF the per
diem laborers, field party men ana
others. as has been the usual practice
in previous years. only about 10 per
cent will be dropped and the balance
win be retained. although at decreased
weekly earnings.
win Extend Plan.
The plan Il expected TO be extended
eoon tosotiaer engineer departments OF
the District government, Including the
sever. water and bridge departments,
Is soon as plans for those departments
can be worked out satisfactorily.
Meanwhile work on projects author
lied in the present supply Dill, mcfuo-
ing the new Klingle Valley Bridge, the
new Monroe Street Bridge over the
Baltimore & Ohio metropolitan branch
and other large projects, Is being driven
eteadiiy forward 30 as to keep employ
ynent iIp to the maximum legally pos
eible during the lean months expected.
Amity Club Plans Aid.
Plans to help relieve the unemploy-
snent situation here have been launched
by the Amity Club In conjunction with
the Jewish Community Center, 1t was
made known today.
Announcement of the program was
made by Harry l. Carroll, DR.. E. l.
Cafritz, Morris GewirZ, Maurice Mar
eisenfeld and John Norman Of the Amity
Club. and Morris Cafritz, Charles A.
Goldsmith, Harry Viner, Joseph A. VIII
ner. David Wiener and Benjamin Ouris-
man. members of the Executive Com
rnittee Of the Jewish Community Center
through Maurice Bisgyer, executive d.
rector Of the Center yesterday.
Members of the Amity Club, headed
BY Edward Castrow, president, and Al
bert w. Jacobson, secretary, viii expand
their work throughout the city. Divi-
lSions viii be formed including depart
fnent stores, garages and filling stations.
food stores, speciality shops, merchantile
trades, building trades, realty firms,
taxicab companies, professional offices.
cleaning plants, insurance, auditors and
ONCE workers. printing trades, hotels,
automobiles radios and other fields.
Use Of the Jewish Community Gen.
ter as clearing house for all positions
located has been decided upon.
While attempts will be made to pro-
vide every kind Of employment, special
attention will be paid to the so-called
white collar" jobs, demands for which
far exceed the present supply in Wash
ington. Both permanent and temporary
positions will be sought.