Evening star., 1933-11-23
1000 MORE Jobs
UNDER CIVIL WORKS
SOUGHT |ND|STR|CT
Local and Federal Agencies
Asked to Requisition Men
and Material.
UTMOST SPEED NEEDED
TO COMPLETE EFFORT
Administration Officials Give Work
Assignments to 5000
Needy Men.

Having given work assignments to
some 5000 men formerly on the Dis
trict relief roster officials of the Dis
trict civil works administration today
devoted specific attention to starting
additional projects to provide Jobs for
about 1000 others.
Capt. Howard F. Clark, head of the
Work Planning Committee, notified
various District and Federal agencies
of the approval of various types Of inn
provement programs on which the
workers may be employed. These
agency heads were asked to formulate
specific acquisitions for men and
Utmost speed is needed in getting
the new projects under way to pro-
vide work for the additional persons
transferred from emergency relief rolls.
This became apparent this morning
when about l 500 reported at the wood
yard at Sixth street and Constitution
avenue to receive work cards. The
necessary work of detailed planning Of
the improvement programs and the
requisition of materials and equipment
has not progressed as fast as the en-
rollment of the recipients of District
relief on civil works status.
Early Solution Seen.
officials believe in a day or two this
problem will be solved satisfactorily as
reQuisitionS for specific operations come
from Federal and District agencies.
AS for the C. w. A. program ma
tionally, immediate employment of
129 ,26O men on hundreds of Federal
projects was ordered yesterday by
Harry L. Hopkins, civil works admin
istrator.
Included is a group of $4,000 engi-
neers who will be assigned to the
Coast and Geodetic Survey of the
Commerce Department, according to
the Associated Press, and 12,500 clerks
to do clerical and research work for
the United State Unemployment SER
vice also are included.
These two groups constitute the
largest number of skilled workers yet
affected by the civil works plan.
Others to be employed include:
Indian affairs projects on 113 reser-
vations in % States, 1000; Southern
tick eradication campaign, II coo; rural
sanitation and malaria control under
the public health service, 60,766; work
on Army post tents and stations and
at national cemeteries, $4,000.
First of Half Million.
These are the first of the half MIL
lion men Hopkins has announced he
will employ on Federal projects. Last
week he allotted 1,500. 900 jobs TO the
States and territories.
Additional projects here are being
selected from the long list filed with
the District Commissioners late last
week by various Government agencies.
The total cost of these plans was ap-
fa1y
The c. W. A. staff at the District
Building now is completing the pay
roll for the more than 5000 already at
work, who will be paid by checks
Saturday.
The comprehensive survey Of rental
and housing conditions in the District
one of the new c. w A projects. will
be started within two weeks One
hundred men and women are to gather
statistics on the type, character and
rental charges of rented properties
throughout the District.
This study will provide the Utilities
Commission, which is making a rent
study for the Senate, with mass of
information regarded as valuable in the
commissions action on rent cases.
Many Seek so Jobs.
A long line of applicants appeared
today at the Smithsonian Institution
seeking C. w. A. employment after
announcement that so persons were to
be engaged there, including the mount
ing of wild life specimens. Those not
needed were directed to the District
Employment Center, from which all
C. w. A workers are being listed other
than the 10000 formerly on District
relief rolls.
1t has developed that all but one Of
II Federal agencies here are submitting
their projects to the District Commis-
sionerS, who were named civil works
administrators here
The one Office which has determined
to submit its projects directly to the
Federal C. w. A. is that of the National
Parks, Buildings and Reservations,
which is under the Secretary of Interior.
The others, co-ordinating their pro-
gram with that Of the District c. w. A.,
officials reported, are Army War Col
lege, Army Medical Center. Boiling
Field, Arlington Cemetery, United States
Soldiers Home, Engineer Office, U. S. A;
Naval Air Station. Naval Observatory,
Naval Hospital. Bureau Of Standards
and National Training School for Boys.