The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-04-05
FIRST $4,000 FOR
FORESTRY WORK TO
Be Chosen AT once
Expectation Is That Initial Re-
cruits Will Leave For
Camps Thursday

Warrington, April 6.-(ReThe first
$4,000 men who will form part Of the
conservation corps will be sent to
military camps for conditioning be-
ginning Thursday.
Quotas from which this first de.
tachment will be drawn have been
fixed for II cities.
President Roosevelt, by executive
order, Wednesday made available
SIC, 900 to finance the beginning
Of work. His order took the money
from unexpended construction funds.
The first contingent will be selected
from among men most In need OF
help and whose circumstances are
fully and accurately known.
The labor department decided
Wednesday that the camps Will be
operated on q five-day working basis
with q maximum Of 40 hours q week.
Pay will be at the rate Of $50 q
month, payable twice month.
The first group will be selected Is
follows:
New York City, $500; Buffalo, coo:
Chicago, 1000: Philadelphia, 5000;
Pittsburgh, 900; Detroit, 2.100: Cleve.
land, 1000; Cincinnati, 500; st. Louis,
900; Kansas City, 400: Baltimore,
1000; Boston, 900; Milwaukee, 600;
Washington, 500: Minneapolis and
st. Paul, 900, and Newark, 500.
Social Worker In Charge
w. Frank Persons, whose services
have been given the labor department
by the American Public Welfare as
ISOLATION to direct the enrolment.
said only unmarried men from 10 to
Is years Of age, who have dependent
relatives for whose benefit they vol
unfairly desire to allot q substantial
part Of their cash allowance, viii be
eligible in the selection Of the first
group.
The presidents executive order es-
tablished government agency to CO.
ordinate the work Of four depart
ments. In carrying out the forest
conservation unemployment program,
with Robert Fechner, Of Massachu-
sets, in charge. Funds allotted were
drawn from previous appropriations
for public construction and road
building.
Fechner said as men are enrolled,
they will be kept in military camps
near the points from which they
come. for approximately two weeks.
Persons explained how the men will
be chosen In this statement:
THE selection viii be made under
authority Of the labor department by
official established state or city relief
administrations which are actively as
sisting those known to be the most In
need Of employment and who have
records Of their names, addresses and
circumstances.
There will be no registration Of ap-
plications at public places unless or
until this class OF eligible young men
Chose who are unmarried, from 10 to
Is, who have dependent relatievs for
whose benefit they voluntarily allot =
substantial part Of their cash allow
ance) has been fully provided for.
Each State Gets Quota
1.-THE enrolment will be 50 governed
that ultimately from each state fair
quota will be selected. These quotas
will be selected on the basis Of the
population Of the state as related to
the population Of the whole country.
Enrolment will be maintained In
advance Of the actual employment re.
quirements in such measure that q
sufficient time, perhaps 10 days or
more, will be possible in the condition.
ing camps, where preliminary In
structions In camp life and suitable
physical training may be carried out
to best fit the men to be competent
self-sustaining work units.
Enrolment can not begin In every
state simultaneously, but it viii be
established In every state Is rapidly
as administrative organizations can
be established for the purpose and Is
determined by the geographical loca-
tions Of the work sites. It Is intended.
Of course, to employ men as near as
possible to the place Of employment"
The first work camps, 1t Is expected,
will be established In southern states
because Of advantages in climate.
Military camps where the men viii
be conditions are to be selected by
corps area commanders.
The labor department will strange
transportation to these camps, after
which transportation to the work
camps will be under the war depart
ment.