Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-11-30
Civil Works Plan Moves
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were TO be given first preference
and then residents OF the county
who are citizens OF the United
States. No aliens we're TO be given
employment.
The pay to be received by CON-
NOR laborers, as agreed for tie
entire state, was 60 cents an hour.
and S1.20 an hour for skilled Ia
bor. Transfers were to receive 30
cents an hour, and owners OF teams
Is cents an hour for the team. The
same pay of so cents was 10 De
paid TO truck drivers.
The working time was to be linn
tied to 3o-heurs a week. with The
possible exception that time could
be made up on account OF incle-
ment weather.
iects being considered over the
state. and on which hundreds Of
men were already at work lais
week. were. road construction.
graveling of roads and streets. n
proyement TO public buildings
parks and Fairgrounds. eonstruc-
ton of swimming pools
The only limitation on getting
projects approved a. that
project which had already been
submitted for consideration under
the Public Works Act could n0t
be placed under the Civil WORKS
program.
Complete Projects BY February -
The time limit on present work
projects was February Is. 1854
That is, all projects We're TO BE- En-
tirely completed by that date or in
disable condition.
One OF the significant features
of the plan was that 20 per cent
OF thetetaIl ens1nf@ prnlAC1
could be used for the purchase OF
materials. All such material. tools.
etc. must be purchased from stores
signed up under the NRA.
One of the latest announcements
applied TO the act was that any
werkmen injured while worKing On
any Civil Works project would re-
ceiye compensation under the Fed
eral Compensation act. providing
such injury was directly due To his
employment.
Other County Projects
Additional projects being eOn-
sidered for Sheridan county are
Crawling Raymond road from
connection with survey already
made by the state highway DEPART
ment. This stretch will be approx
imately eight miles and will cost
$4,000.
Construction of a city reservoir
at Medicine Lake. The present
water system has proven made
quate.
Building of & gymnasium AT He'd
stone. A building IN the town has
been donated for this purpose Il
is planned to remodel the building
into an up-to-date gym
Placing riffJraff along tine stale
highway east to the Roosevelt cOun-
ty line has also been allotted The
expenditure will be $4,000 for this
work.
Money No Object
Money was NO object, according
to state Director Spaulding. Forget
the money" he said. "the Eederai
government will pay the bill. what
we want you to do is 10 get yOnr
quota to work and keep them
working until February 10
The pay office for three north
eastern counties will be at Wolf
Point. Checks will be made di-
rect to men on the jobs, according
to record of time submitted by
timekeepers. Mems pay, however.
would be one week behind. that L.
a man would always have 4 Eeek
additional pay coming This would
be necessitated. by the time Te1uhr-
ed to check payr0Iis and get pay
checks made out.
Included i'm the plan was also an
additional one which would pIHs
$500 unemployed Eornen to Eork
in the state soon. The details oil
this could not be announced how
ever until some time later.