Evening star., 1933-11-15
ICKES TELLS PLAN
TO HIRE 100000
Governors and Mayors Hear
Hopkins Urge Use of Aid
Funds for Works.
BY the Associated Press.

more than zO0 Otner OInclalS, gdJHefeu
as a relief convention, he told of plans
aimed to hire 100000 men until
February / through allotments under
the s4oo, ,o0o, 900 fund.
Harry L. Hopkins, the civil works
administrator. previously had urged
that relief funds be used to pay actual
wages for work done in addition 70
| this sum.
= Oficials, crowded in one of the main
dining rooms of the Mayfower Hotel
| applauded both Ickes and Hopkins
They will meet with President Rooseveit
at the White House during the late att
| ernoon.
Warns Against Politics.
"We intend to go through with this
REGARDLESS" Hopkins told the ofncialS
"I do not anticipate that any one will
endeavor to inject politics or personal
gain into the plan. We do not intend
to tolerate SUCH
HOPKINS set minimum wages under
his fund for three subdivisions OF the
country These provide that unsKlueo
labor in the Southern zone shall be PAID
not less than 40 cents, with a accent
minimum in the Central zone ana oO
cents in the North.
Skilled labor which may be necessary
on the projects will be paid 81 an hour
in the Southern zone, $ll0 In the Gen.
tral zone and $1.20 in the North.
For purposes of determining wage
rates, Hopkins, the civil works admins
traitor, outlined the three zones as fol-
lows
Southern-South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Arkansas, Alabama. Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arizona, Oklahoma. Texas
and New Mexico.
District i'm Central
Central-Delaware Maryland Vir-
giria, Tennessee, Colorado. Utah, Cali
fornia, North Carolina, West Virginia,
Kentucky, Missouri. Kansas, Nevada
and the District of Columbia.
Northern Zone-Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Nebraska, Wyoming, Oregon. South Da-
kota, Idaho Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mich
igan, Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota, Mon
tana and Washington.
The rules call for 3D-hour week,
except in executive, administrative and
supervisory positions, in so far as prac-
ticable
Beginning tomorrow. Hopkins said,
the Public Works Administration VIII
begin turning over to the Civil works
Administration what are known as
border line" projects. These can be
started almost at once. No large build
ings or bridges or similar projects win
be considered
Mayor walmsley of New Orleans
president of the Conference OF United
States Mayors, called meeting OF
mayors for tonight.
Day Labor Plan.
Hopkins explained that the types OF
work to be handled include all types OF
public works projects provided they
are socially and economically desirable
and that they may be undertaken
| quickly"
He added that all civil works projects
must be carried on by day labor and not
by contract.
Referring to the persons left on the
relief rolls, which still include approx
mately 100000 families, Hopkins ex-
planned that Federal emergency relief
funds may be used to pay wages to per-
sons transferred from relief rolls to civil
works projects"
wherever State and local laws per-
nit he said, "it is urged that State
and local relief funds be similarly used.
II this is not possible, 1t Is suggested
that the funds received from the Fed
eral Emergency Relief Administration
be allocated entirely to civil works prof.
ects and State and local relief funds be
used for direct relief"
Projects for which Federal money at
the rate OF Sl00,0O00OO q month may
be obtained upon approval by the local
civic works agencies alone the VISITORS
heard. include highways, streets, parks,
public buildings, sanitation, pest eradi-
cation and health control.
The Presidents schedule calls for
enough of this to give work Immediately
! to 2,00o,0 900 on relief work. By Decem-
Der l6, he said. 100000 now totally u1-
employed should be at work.
Plans for spreading relief work fol
women, for additional efforts to relieve
| farmers and to supply food for jobless
families were disclosed yesterday.
Centers Planned
The women's and the educationa
divisions Of the Relief Administration
have authorized local communities tc
establish centers at which unemployed
single women may live and receive in
struction in work that would aid then
to obtain employment. These centers
would be established only where asked
| for and where the community Furnished
! housing and equipment. Unemployed
| teachers and other experts would teach
| the girls and they would be allowed tc
remain only until jobs could be founc
| for them.
! Under the plans, every State would
| have a director of women'S work. Thir-
| teen of these have already been ap-
| pointed.
Plans for including women in the
! Civil Works Administration are to be
| taken up at a special conference TO-
morrow.