Evening star., 1933-08-18
WORKS T0PR0V|DE
10000 NEW Jobs
AIIocations Of s65,O00, 900
for Various Projects to
Give Many Employment.

BY the Associated Press.
Upwards of 10000 new jobs were
seen today by the Public Works Admin
istration because of its approval Of
sos 100000 more for expenditure on
construction.
1t figured, for instance, that the
spending of S44200,000 on tri-
borough bridge project in New York
s37 600 900 a loan. the rest direct
grant-would give $4,000 men jobs for
full year
AS the administration approved the
ALLEGATION of funds to this project,
which is the erection of huge bridge
connecting the boroughs of Manhattan,
Queens and Bronx, it also set aside
sl1,527 ,4s9 for 90 public buildings in
% States and nearly S10,000000 for
slum- -erasing housing projects.
It picked Just three of the latter for
lob estimates. The Queens Borough,
New York. project, it said. should pro-
vide 18-month jobs for 300 men; that
in Neptune Gardens. Boston, 1000 jobs
for a wear: that in Hutchinson, Kans.,
35 six-month jobs. The Queens
Borough work got loan of S3,2l0,OO0;
Neptune Gardens, S3,500,000 Hutchin-
son, $4,000.
Many More Indirectly.
Many more jobs, the administration
said, would be provided indirectly.
For the ether housing projects it
made no specific estimate Of employ
ment. For the 291 public buildings it
said simply:
CONSTRUCTION will begin as soon as
contracts can be awarded. Large num-
.f will k,n
given work"
AS it approved these the administra-
ton also set minimum wages for the
things to be built under its jurisdic-
ton. These would guarantee:
Southern Zone-Skilled labor, 81 an
hour; unskilled, 40 cents.
Central zone-Skilled, S110: unskilled,
As cents.
Northern zone-Skilled, s1.2O; un-
skilled, so cents
These schedules, Secretary Ickes said.
were drawn to carry cut the mandate
of Congress that wage rates shall be
sufficient to provide a standard of liv-
ing in decency and comfort"
Biggest Expenditures Approved.
These were the biggest expenditures
by far approved up to this time for nom
favorable action at the White House,
either formally or informally
Secretary Ickes. public works admin
istrator, in announcing the Federal
projects, which include 26 post office
buildings, a quarantine station, border
station and an Office building, said they
were needed and therefore properly in
cluded. The list included a 100000
parcel post building in Richmond, Va
The housing allotments were subject
to satisfactory contracts being made
for the projects and final approval by
President Roosevelt. The Presidents S
approval was considered by public
works officials to be a foregone con-
clusion
Thirty-five such projects are now
being considered by the Public Works
Administration and early action on ad-
ditional housing enterprises is expected.
Those approved yesterday. in addi-
ton to those for which job estimates
were made were:
Two million and twenty-five thousand
dollars to the Spence Estate Housing
ect in Brooklyn, totaling 2,150 rooms
to rent for less than S11 a month.
Eight hundred and forty-five thou
sand dollars for housing project total
ing 1074 rooms in the Kensington dis
trict of Philadelphia, to be built by a
corporation formed by officers and
members of the American Federation of
Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers.
In announcing establishment of the
minimum rates, Ickes said he had
given heed to the mandate of Con-
gress that wage rates shall be sufficient
to provide a standard of living in de-
cency and comfort"
He remarked that contractors in bid
ding on public projects would know
now in advance what their labor costs
would be.
The increased purchasing power
which will be afforded to construction
workers should make it possible for
them to purchase their just share of
the output of American industry and
of American agriculture" Ickes said.
1T should equaliZe the standard of
living between the various sections in
the United States and should make
it possible for workers in the rural
agricultural areas to purchase the pro-
ducts of our farmers in quantities which
they have been unable to purchase prior
to this time"