Evening star., 1933-11-19
CAPITAL EXPANDS
CIVIL WORKS DRIVE
Additional Men and Women
to Receive Jobs on City
improvements.
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Other work is being planned and ad-
tional projects will be announced before
the end of this week. The District has
been given a quota Of 10000 jobs for
the present-and this figure may be
raised to $4,000 soon.
APPROXIMATELY 100 white collar"
workers will be engaged tomorrow under
civil works status Women as we'll as
men are included in this phase of the
plan More Jobs for clerks and profess
sional workers, now unemployed. will
be found later.
The 4,200 men set to regula- employ
mcnt Friday are eng ged on a variety
of made work" projects which had
been planned for the benefit of the
destitute on the Districts emergency
relief lists before President Roosevelt
proclaimed the new national S400000,-
600 employment program.
Officials Map Out Program.
Since then. District officials by labor
ing many hours overtime, have mapped
out thousands Of new joss sufficient to
provide steady employment for 10000
persons from now to February is.
Many of these projects are to be
started by Wednesday.
With burst of speed and enthusi-
asm, Commissioner George E. Allen and
officials who have been conducting the
made work" programs yesterday per-
fected the new administrative machin-
cry to run the expanded program. They
settled multitude of questions regard
ing jobs, wages. tools, trucks, pay rolls
and purchase of materials
The immediate command of the new
war on unemployment was placed in
the hands of the Work Planning Com
mittee, headed by Capt Howard F
Clark, Assistant Engineer Commissioner.
Maj John C. Gotwals, Engineer Com
missioner, relieved him of all other
duties.
Lieut.. York Assigned.
Lieut.. Robert E. York, another
Assistant Engineer Commissioner, was
assigned as executive secretary to both
the District Civil Works Administra-
ton and the Work Planning Committee.
David Ruml. director of the District
Employment Agency. 480 Indiana ave-
nue., who is listing hundreds of new
applicants for jobs, was made mem
Der of the Planning Committee Other
members are Capt. H. G. Whitehurst,
director of highways; John Blake Cor
don, Sanitary Engineer, George S. Will
son. director of public welfare; LEROY
A Halbert. emergency relief director;
Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor; Har
old w. Baker director of construction;
William c. Cleary, secretary of the job
Assignment Committee; and George E.
Clark of the National Capital Park
ard Planning Commission.
The employment agency, beseiged by
more than 1000 men and women yes
terday morning, remained open yester-
day afternoon to those who made ap-
pointmentS and was to be open again
today to others who arranged for in
terViewS.
Whitehurst Organizes Pool"
Capt. Clark and Lieut.. York will con-
stitute a special planning body to make
sure employment programs are kept
pace ahead of actual operations.
Capt Whitehurst was designated to
organize a pool" for all trucks, road
rollers and other equipment to be hired
or purchased for engineer types of pro-
grams. He also will work out the wage
scale for clerical stats under civil
works status.
The wage scale for laborers will range
from IS cents to S1.10 an hour, on a
graduated scale for unskilled and skilled
workers. They will have six-hour day
and 30-hour week.
Clerical and professional workers will
come within these limits, but will have
tt same wage scales otherwise as regu
lar District employees, with adjustments
for the difference between their 30-hour
week and the regular District workers
39-hour week.
Orders Already Placed.
Capt. whitehurst already has placed
orders for picks, shovels and manets
numbering $500 each and has arranged
for the hiring of about 200 trucks and
highway equipment. Concerns wishing
to hire out their trucks under informal
contracts are registering them with
Capt. Whitehursts office. The rate will
be from 80 cents an hour for the light
est trucks to $3.50 an hour for the
heaviest vehicles. This includes hire Of
drivers.
Believing that there is real need for
employment of the white collar" class
here, Commissioner Allen quickly organ
lied plans yesterday for jobs for 100
men and women clerks, under civil
works rules
Some of these will be set to work to-
morrow codify1ng and classifying Dis
trict records now unorganized. Addi-
tlonal workers of this class will be as
oA5llC0 clloO w I4AC Alf4oiOI1 O1 Jl4C LIS
trict Civil Works Administration han
ding pay rolls, assignments and time
keeping. There will be jobs also for
craftsmen and surveyors and others
having professional or special training
Some will assist in surveys and max
ing Of typographical maps of the prop
critics of the Geological Park About 20
are to be assigned to make traffic counts
Tor the District director Of traffic, Will
liam A. Van Duzer. The District
libraries will have assistants for making
new catalogues. Others will be as
signed to the District repair shop TO
assist in planning repairs and improve
mentS to District buildings!
The stats of other District divisions
directly engaged in administration Of
the civil works programs also will be
enlarged somewhat to meet the new
work loads.
The projects are being selected from
long list Of suggestions submitted by
heads of various Government agencies.
The total cost Of all these proposals was
estimated at some SO, 100000. When
unWleldly plans or those not meeting
standards Of the Federal Civil Works
Administration are Weeded out Capt.
Clark said, the total probably will drop
to about $3,0OO,OOO
1900 Are Employed.
The Federal administration has not
stated as yet how much money will be
allotted to the District, but has author
lied the employment Of 10000. Fed
eral grants for emergency relief pur-
poses here will be used until civil
works funds are allocated to the Dis
trict.
Water Department officials tomor-
row will suggest as one of the new en-
ployment projects the laying of
truck water main in Alabama avenue
southeast between Fifteenth and
Twenty-fourth streets
The highway improvement program
approved generally yesterday is the
same as that announced during the
past week by Capt Whitehurst. 1t
calls for he grading of numerous minor
streets, the widening, shaping and sur
facing of q number of existing sec
ondary macadam streets and other ele-