Evening star., 1933-08-01
AND LABOR URGED
ON PUBLIC WORKS
kdNisory Bodies Told Manual
Jobs Should Be Provided
Where Practicable.
By the Associated Press.

/ Oy the ASSOCldlcu IicoS-
State Advisory Committees were told
| today that human labor instead of ma
| chinery shall be used whenever prac-
tlcable in projects built with money out
of the So 800 000,000 public works fund.
This was one of the many instructions
included in a new outline of purposes
and policies issued by Secretary Ickes
who also administers the public works
money.
Others were that:
Jobs shall be equitably distributed
| among unemployed qualified workers
| Employment of convictS and use Of
materials produced by them is forbid
den.
Local Selection Urged.
I Local labor should. as far as prac
ticable. be selected from lists of quail
fled workers submitted by local employ
ment agencies.
Highly skilled or organized labor
trade union locals.
A 30-hour week, so far as practica-
Bile and feasible" should be established
with working time lost because of bad
weather or unavoidable delays made up
in succeeding days.
Wages should be lust and reason
hble," sufficient to provide
standard of living in decency and COM
fort
No deductions from minimum wages
shall be permitted on account of goods
purchased. rent or other obligations.
Preference shall be given to materials
produced under codes of competition
Iapproved by the Industrial Administra-
Ition. IF prices, quality and quantities
available are satisfactory. ="
Projects integrated with and con-
Isistent with a State plan are to be pre-
Iferred to the isolated or inconsistent.
Projects which can be started promptly
are to be preferred to those requiring
delay. Projects near centers of employ
nent are to be preferred"
Make Applications Here.
Applications for housing and slum-
clearance projects are to be made direct
to the administrator at Washington,
as are applications by railroads for
financing railroad maintenance and
| equipment.
This test was specified for projects
on which the President is empowered to
make grants to political subdivisions
not in excess of 80 per cent of the cost
of labor and materials.
The social and economic significance
of the project and its relative impor-
tance in the comprehensive national
program of public works contemplated
by the act. and the extent its con-
struction will provide employment and
purchasing power in the vicinity"
Grants to a political subdivision are
not to be made unless it has power
to sell to the United States its bonds
in sufficient amount to reimburse the
United States for its outlay 0ess the
grant if allowed in connection with
the project and enters into a contract
so to do and to complete the project. or
has power to convey the site of the
project to the United States and con-
tracts SO to do and to pay rental Suffi-
cient to reimburse the United States for
its outlay, less the grant if allowed, and
to complete the project or is in process
of securing the necessary powers and
the administrator is convinced that
such powers will be obtained or in
special cases as the President may de-
termine."
Will Bid Par for Bonds.
The Federal Government will bid par
and accrued interest for bonds to
finance projects but their interest must
not be less than per cent.
The policy stated that loans could
also be made to private corporations
for projects such as bridges. tunnels,
docks, dry docks. viaducts, water works,
reservoirs, pumping plants. canals.
markets, hospitals, when devoted to
public use and when self f-liquidating in
character, but the 80 per cent grant
available to political subdivisions would
not hold in these cases. All loans to
private corporations must be well Sc
cured, the policy stated.