Evening star., 1933-01-13
Unemployment Administra-
ton Issues Work Cards
for 2,400 Needy.
$4,000 WEEKLY SCALE
TO BE RECOMMENDED
Agency Proceeds Under Belief
Measure Will Be Signed in Time
to Meet Pay Roll.

Work cards for about 1000 men and
400 women were being issued tcday by
the unemployment relief administra-
ton, following the action of the Senate
yesterday in passing the deficiency bill.
The bill carried $625,o0o for District
unemployment relief. Although the bill
must go to conference before it is sent
to the President fer signature, the diff
ferences between the Senate and House
bills do not affect the item for relief.
Accordingly the relief agency is acting
on the assumption that the bill will be
signed in time to meet the pay roll next
week.
All work was stopped after last Mon
day, but a pay roll for Work done prior
to that time will be made up tomorrow,
when about $1,000 to $4,000 will be dis
tributed. A meeting of the Relief Sub
committee CT the Board Of Public
Welfare will be held at 2 o'clock this
afternoon to decide upon the scale of
relief to be afforded under the new
appropriation.
S25,000 Weekly Scale.
Leroy A. Halbert, director of the un-
employment relief, said today that he
would recommend a scale of about
1000 per week from now until the
middle of April, when warm weather
may be expected and reduction in the
scale thereafter. Prior to the stopping
of work last Monday the scale was
about $4,000 per week. There are now
6,732 eases" on the unemployment
relief rolls. Each ease" consists of a
n c
afforded to men without dependents.
There are applications pending for relief
from abcut 400 additional cases, which
have not yet been investigated.
The men are put to work in various
District government departments and In
the Office of Public Buildings and Pub
lie Parks under Col. U. S. Grant, Sd.
The women work in Red Cross sewing
rooms. The assignments are made by
the District Committee on Employment,
which also makes up the pay roll.
The deficiency bill, besides the emer-
gency item of s625,0o0, which comes
from District revenues, carries a total
Ct s31 100000 to meet urgent def
ciencies throughout the Federal service.
Controverted Amendments.
Among the Senate amendments to
be adjusted in conference are: For ex-
penses of the inaugural ceremonies on
March 4, $4,000. and for American
participation in the World Disarma-
ment Conference, $l50,000. The local
relief section passed both branches in
the same form and is not subject to
conference
For several days the deficiency bill
had been buffeted back and forth be-
tween a filibuster against the Glass
ha0kiT1y hill ord fI1a
McKellar amendment to the deficiency
bill relating to the method of examin-
ing Federal tax refunds.
Early yesterday Senator Long, Demo-
crat, of Louisiana, leading the fight
against the banking bill, declined to
yield to Senator Bingham, Republican
OF Connecticut, who wanted to ap-
peal to the Senate on behalf of the
unemployed in the District. In the
afternoon, however, Senator Long an
nounced his willingness to cooperate
in getting the deficiency bill through,
insisting he was not holding up the
relief money. He said he had brought
the banking bill back before the SEN
ate Wednesday afternoon to- give other
Senators time to work out the text
of the McKellar amendment to the
deficiency bill relating to tax refunds
Chairman Hale Of the Appropriations
Committee, who has been striving to
expedite the deficiency bill, then sug-
gested that the banking bill be tenn
porarily laid aside and another effort
made to get the deficiency measure
through This was done.
Democrats and Independent Repub-
1icans united in the Senate to suspend
its rules and stipulate that all tax
refunds Of $4,000 or more hereafter
must be passed on by joint Congress
sional committee before being paid. The
proposal must receive House approval
to become effective.