Evening star., 1933-10-01
S33O,0I0,0DO RELIEF
PROGRAM IS GIVEN
0. K. BY PRESIDENT
Plan Provides for Feeding,
Clothing and Giving Fuel
to Winter Destitute.
SCHEME SEEN AS MOVE
TO STAVE OFF TROUBLE
President Waits Up Until Early
Morning to Sign Captive"
Mine Wage Pact.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

HYDE PARK, September 30.-A
1880 900 900 program for feeding, cloth
ing and providing fuel for the destitute
next Winter was approved today by
President Roosevelt in a conference
with Harry l.. Hopkins, Federal emer-
gency relief administrator The plan
contemplates the expenditure of up
wards of $3.50 10000 of Federal funds
unemployment distress, but to act as
credit expansion measure and an aid
to agriculture by putting the money
into circulation through the purchase of
surplus food, clothing and coal supplies.
The States, cities and counties are
believed to have approximately the
same amount available for relief and are
counted on, Mr.. Hopkins said, to CO.
operate in the supply purchase program.
Mr.. Hopkins came to Hyde Park
from Washington this morning to lay
the program before the President. Mr..
Roosevelt discussed the plans with him
for about two hours, despite the fact
he had been kept up late last night to
act on the agreement which brought
the captive mines" of the steel cor
porations in the Western Pennsylvania
bituminous coal fields under the same
wage and hour restrictions as are i'm
posed in the master code for the COM
mercial branch of that industry.
Efforts Are Related.
Both efforts were clearly related,
more or less directly, to the obligation
of Government to prevent disorder.
Some observers frequently have ex-
pressed fear that another Winter of
widespread deStitution would bring
desperation to millions Of unemployed
and lead to rioting. A close approach
to like disturbances was reported to be
threatened in the turbulent Pennsyl-
vania coal fields yesterday, with $4,000
miners and $4,000 steel mill employees
out on strikes to force the steel COM
panies to operate their mines under
the terms of the coal code.
It was that situation which led
President Roosevelt to wait up until
an early hour this morning to receive
Donald H. Richberg, general counsel OF
the National Recovery Administration,
to go over with him and approve an
agreement reached in Washington with
the steel company executives to put
their coal mines under the codes wage
and hour provisions. He had been
warned in the afternoon by Gov. Gif-
ford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who
made a dramatic unheralded flight to
Hyde Park for the purpose, that the
situation was critical and growing
worse.
The President Immediately got in
touch with Mr.. Richberg by telephone,
learned that the agreement had been
reached, and summoned him to Hyde
Park so that he could approve it at
once in an effort to send the 100000
Pennsylvania strikers back to work on
Monday. The Army airplane which
brought Mr.. Richberg from Washing
ton was unable to land at the new
Hackensack Airport and proceeded to
Albany, delaying his arrival at Hyde
Park until nearly midnight. The Presi-
dent regarded the problem as SO i'm
portant, however, that he waited for
him and signed the agreement at an
.early hour this morning.
Attends Relatives Wedding.
Even before the coal situation was
forced upon his attention for inlme-
diate action, the President had ar
ranged to confer with Mr.. Hopkins on
the relief program this morning, prior
to attending the wedding this after
noon, in St. James Episcopal Church at
Hyde Park of Miss Aida Douglas Rob-
inson to Kenneth S. Walker Miss
Robinson is the daughter of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, former Assistant
Secretary of the Navy, and Mrs. Rob-
inson, and granddaughter of a STEP
brother of the President She also is
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