The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-14
Immediate Employment For
$4,000 Registrars Now On
State Roll Proves Problem

(By Associated Pressl
TALLAHASSEE, Fla, Dec. Ia.
- The federal government,
through its civil works administra-
ton, holds out no hope of i'm
mediate employment for nearly
$4,000 persons registered on
federal unemployment agency
lists in Florida.
Harry Hopkins, federal CWA
administrator, and Alan john
stone, southeastern district adj
ministrator, informed the state
CWA headquarters here that
prospects for employment for
these persons were not in view
at present.
Florida's ALLEGATION of $780,
persons in the national CWA pro-
gram is not sufficient to take care
of persons now actually on federal
emergency relief administration
rolls, and the CWA provision was
that these should come first in
consideration for employment. An
additional 1880 are being paid
weekly amounts for work under
direction of the emergency relief
administration. s2nl
Al ray of hope for i the vast
number in the unemployment
rolls was provided, however,
through quickening of business in
| general as the civil works payroll
| in Florida claims steadily toward
| 81, 900, 900 a week. sp
Many Withdrawn
Already, said Chairman C. B.
Treadway, hundreds of persons
who were on relief rolls have OBJ
tanned employment in private
business, notably the citrus and
winter crop harvesting, and have
withdrawn from the relief rolls.
Definite figures were not avail
able, he said.
Considering the plight of per-
sons who registered with the re-
employment service, but who had
not actually been on emergency
relief rolls, Chairman Treadway,
who also is chairman of the state
road department, sent this appeal
to highway contractors:
Whenever you need employees
in carrying out your contracts,
call upon the federal re-employ-
ment agencies to provide them.
Persons on relief rolls will be pro-
vided employment through the
civil works projects which are not
under contract"
Treadway said the road depart
ment, in selecting men for work
Fit does with its own forces, is
choosing them from the re-em-
ployment lists, in order that the
spread of employment may be as
wide as possible.
Vast Expenditures
At present, the road depart
ment has under execution con-
tracts totalling about $4,000, 900.
These are being paid for out of
the states 1924, 900 share of
the federal $40O,O00,000 emer-
gency highway construction pro-
gram. Contracts for an additional
81, 900, 900 will be awarded during
the next so days.
Chairman Treadway said numer-
Gus other state road projects
started under the civil works were
selected only to provide employ
ment for men as rapidly as pos
sible. They are of such nature,
that they can be suspended when
county CWA boards agree on
worthwhile public projects which
will provide jobs for men on re-
lief rolls, Treadway said.
Meanwhile, the CWA executive
committee, by formal resolution,
designated as primary projects
the repairs to schools and roads
damaged in last September's storm
that raked across central Florida.
County civil works boards were
directed to furnish sufficient
! labor for the projects.
Meet With Delays
The federal government in 0c-
tober agreed to finance the storm
damage repairs, but various de-
lays have been encountered. The
CWA executive committee noti-
fled its county boards there must
be no further delay in these.
The road department, through
its regular forces. already has re-
paired most Of the storm damaged
roads, at an expenditure Of several
hundred thousand dollars. This
leaves school repairs standing at
the top of the list.
While the civil works pI0dded
along its way, farmers, naval
stores operators and other en-
| ployers of labor continued their
complaints that Iaborers are leav-