The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-12-08
5000 MEN WORKING
ON JOBS PROVIDED
BY RELIEF AGENCY
State Chief Expects $1,000
Names to Be on Payroll in
Short Time
NEW PROPOSALS APPROVED
Wide Field Covered by Sugges.
tons Submitted to Central
Bureau Here

Between 5000 and 5000 men went
20 work on civil works projects this
week, according to a check-up con-
Quoted by John williams, secretary Of
the federal emergency relief commit
tee In North Dakota, who said Friday
that approximately $1,000 men would
he at work when the program gets In
full swing.
Under the CWA program unskilled
laborers will receive SO cents an hour
and are limited to 80 hours week. A
few skilled and semi-skilled laborers
receive wages ranging from so cents
to 81 20 an hour which, with the pres
ent number OF men employed, means
that more than 100000 a week will
60 for wages Of men employed on the
projects In North Dakota. The CWA
offices here have been busy from 16
20 Is hours 4 day keeping the ma
chinery moving to place the men at
work and considering the various
projects proposed from over the state
approximately 1000 projects, spread
over practically every county. have
peen approved to date.
The projects being sent In for ap-
prevail daily by local relief commit
tees In each county cover a wide field
end include public building and park
improvements, crawling Of roads,
,mall extensions and improvement Of
savers, drains and water works, &C
.Ording to Harris Robinson, engineer
# the state civil works admiuistra-
ton.
Most counties are nearing their
maximum quota, he said. and con-
siderable work is being done to revise.
eliminate, and cut down projects pre-
sented to the administration office.
The List BY Counties
williams survey of men at work
this week by counties follows:
Barnes 500, Benson $50, Billings So,
Bowman l59, Burke 81, Burleigh 402,
Cas- AS. Dickey $50, Divide PIP, Dunn
"a. Eddy Ill, Emmons 81, Foster 100,
Golden Valley SO, Grand Forks 480
Grant $50, Griggs l03, Hettinger 5l4
Kidder l52, Logan 200, Mcintosh 174
Mckenzie "a. Mercer 100. Morton $50
Mountrail 260, Nelson 200, Oliver 60
pierce 267, Ramsey 220, Renville POS
l.ichland 30, Sheridan 50. Sioux go
Slope 800. Stark 232, Steele 100
Stutsman 800, Towner lat, Walsh 3ll
Ward 163, Wells l58, Williams 203.
No figures were given for Adams
3ottineau. Cavalier. LaMoure, Nc
Henry, Mclean, Pembina, Ransom
Rolette, Sargent and Trail counties
2,5oo. 900 EMPLOYED
rs HOPKINS ESTIMATE
Washington, Dec. 8.-(R)-Harry L
Hopkins estimated Friday that the
civil works administration has $780,
200 on its payroll. on the basis Of 9
telegraph poll Thursday.
Inability to purchase shovels, pick:
and other tools. and the fact thai
some Of the work relief" project:
which had been in operation in thu
various states failed to meet the civil
works requirements, were held re.
sponsible by Hopkins for the fact thai
the program Is apparently behine
schedule.
For the week ended November 80
Hopkins said, 1,43l,748 men wert
paid, with Missouri, Idaho, WyQminf
and Vermont missing from the lists
Hopkins said he expects the entir,
1000, 900 men 1t Is planned to emplo!
to be on the Job by next Saturday. I
they are rot, he said. states which
have not filled their quota will hav'
the Jobs made available to then
transferred t1 other states.