Evening star., 1933-06-24
D. c. GETS $1,91S,469.
FOR ROAD BUILDING.
Army Asks Additional ST.
707,856 to Repair Service
Quarters Here.
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a reservation that it could require con-
struction of roads desired by the United
States railroad co-ordinator to provide
adequate "year-round highway service
in replacement of branch-line railroad
service proposed to be abandoned"
Designed to get as much manpower
to work with pick and shovel as possible,
the regulations announced 'it will be
required that the maximum of human
labor be used in lieu of machinery
wherever practicable and consistent with
sound economy and public advantage"
AS another point in the program to
see that as many unemployed as can be
used are given jobs, the board ruled no
convict labor shall be employed and no
convict labor shall be used on any
project constructed under this act"
Contracts, the board decided, shall
prescribe minimum wage rates. to be
determined by the State highway de-
partments, and the minimum rates shall
be announced in asking for bids for the
construction.
Contracts for all projects under this
act shall contain stipulation that
except in executive, administrative and
supervisory positions, so far as practi-
cable and feasible, no individual shall
be permitted to work more than 80 hours
in any week." the board went on.
Exemptions Allowed.
This requirement. 1t explained, would
permit working time lost because of bad
weather in one week to be made up in
another. and permit limitation of not
more than 1870 hours Of work month
to be substituted for the 30-hour week
requirement on projects in localities
where there was not sufficient labor
available
Neither of these requirements would
hold in areas where work camps are
remote and inaccessible and 1t is nee
essary to house and feed the labor, the
board said, but this must be determined
by the State highway departments and
the Federal Public Roads Bureau, with
a fiat stipulation that even in these
cases no employe may work more than
40 hours in one week.
The board held that projects must be
initiated by the States and submitted
to it in the same manner as other
Federal-aid highway projects, and Of
the distribution in the State of the
funds allocated said:
Not more than so per cent of the
funds apportioned to any State under
this act shall be applied to projects on
the Federal-aid highway system outside
of the corporate limits of municipal
tiles; not less than 25 per cent of such
funds shall be applied to projects on
extensions of the Federal-aid highway
system into and through municipali-
ties. and not more than 25 per cent of
such funds shall be applied to sec
ondary or feeder roads until provision
has been made for the satisfactory
completion Of at least 80 per cent of
the initial limiting Federal-aid highway
system in such State
r. F. c. Makes Report.
With the works program and in
duSt!ial and farm price-lifting pushing
forward fast as possible, the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation yester-
day gave Congress report for May
showing peak in that month for its
relief ALLEGATIONS. They totaled around
$500, 900, including $500 100000 to
the new Federal Farm Credit Agency for
retinancing farm mortgages. while S.
O5O 600 went to increase Federal sub
scriptions to the capital stock Of the
Federal Home Loan Bank
Relief and loans to financial ,institu-
tions took Sl52, ,005 900, around SIP ,5O0,-
900 of this going to States for sup
port of the unemployed. OF the loans
authorized to banks, etc, some of the
biggest were: s14,OoO.000 to the Anglo
California National Bank, San Fran
CISCO S13 100000 to the receiver, Cana
val Bank & Trust Co, New Orleans,
and S9000,000, Hibernia Bank &, Trust
Co, New Orleans. The conservator of
| the Hartman National Bank, New
| York, was down on the list for So
| 585 900. Other sizeable amounts were
distributed in stock subscriptions for