Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-02
Emergency WORK
GROUP MEETING
TO ASSIGN Jobs
Second Grant of $4,000
Expected to Finance
Projects This Week.
COMMISSIONER ALLEN
CONFERS WITH HOPKINS
Committee Is Studying Break
down" of $4,000 Persons on
Relief Rolls.

With a second grant of Sl50,00C
made this morning, the D. c. Work
Planning and Job Assigning Com
mittee is meeting this afternoon to
frame new schedule of relief jobs
under the emergency works program
replacing the C. w. A.
Concurrent with the committees
meeting, Commissioner George E
Allen is comforting with Harry l.
Hopkins, Federal relief administrator
on the Districts April relief needs.
1t is this conference which is ex-
pected to reveal just how much money
the District can expect.
Meanwhile 5000 persons went to
work this morning on various jobs.
The S150000 grant made this morning
is expected to finance the relief prof.
ectS through this week, after which
the regular relief budget, being de-
clded in the conference between Com
missioner Allen and Administrator
Hopkins will become available.
This mornings grant follows a
grant of similar sum last Friday,
over which some misunderstanding
developed. Actually, the first Sl5O,O00
was intended to finance relief work
for the first few days of April" 1t
was used, however, to pay off old
c. w. A. bills and, in large part. to
meet today's pay roll. The grant made
this morning assured financial sup
port for relief until future program
for the District can be determined.
$4,000 on Relief Rolls.
In its meeting this afternoon the
Work Planning and job Assigning
Committee is studying breakdown"
of approximately $4,000 persons on
the relief rolls of Director Halbert.
Halbert has transmitted that number
of work cards" to the committee with
requests in each instance for job
assignments permitting the earning of
anywhere from $40 to S35 a month
If the majority of the persons on the
list have cards calling for $40 or SIS
month, District of Columbia relief
work directors said, the problem would
be comparatively simple If, however,
the ma jority of the cases are in the
upper level of the wage range, it may
become difficult to assign jobs.
Under present plans. jobs under
the new relief schedule will be as
signed only to persons on Halbert S
relief rolls. 1t is contemplated to
work individuals on alternate weeks so
that relief job holders will have an
''off week" IN which to hunt for a
permanent position in private fields.
But even though a man would work
three or four days in one week and
none the next, it was made plain a.:
the District Building today, he still
would be enabled to earn his monthly
budget as set up by Halbert's office.
Will Plant Trees.
Among the jobs at which the relief
Job holders will be set will be the
planting of the District trees. Thou
sands of planting sites have been pre-
pared and now are ready to receive
young trees. This work, it was said.
should be accelerated because of the
speed with which tree sap arises dur
ing the current warm weather.
No cuts are contemplated in the
emergency education projects under
way here. The free-lunch program
for instance. is continuing to serve
needy children during the present
Easter vacation period, and Mrs.
Katherine NICK. Ansley, director of
that work, said she had not been
notified if any changes are contem-
plated.
On Good Friday. the first day of the
experiment to continue lunch service
even though schools were closed, ap-
proximately two-thirds of the regular
number of lunches were served, Mrs.
Ansley said. Because of the various
egg-rolling fetes, she added, slightly
smaller number of lunches were to be
served today. Tomorrow, however,
she expects to serve as many lunches
as on any normal school day.
Work At Lorton Halted.
Shortly before noon, it was disclosed
that work on the four buildings at
Lorton Reformatory had been halted
by the closing of the c. w. A. pro-
gram. The work is about IS per cent
complete and only 80 days more work
would be required to complete the
structures. Efforts are being made to-
day. however, to arrange for the COM
pletion of those projects by Virginia
as a Federal relief work project. I'm
der the old plans, the work was being
done out of the Districts allotment
of relief money by Virginia labor.
Some 400 men on the Districts re-
lief rolls were distributed today
throughout the park system, as part
of the new emergency works program.
These workers are engaged in fin
ishing the swimming pools at the Ia
koma and Banneker Recreation Gen.
tiers, as well as in widening Fifteenth
street across the Mall, near the Wash
ington Monument, improving lawn
areas and road work in Rock Greek
Park and Piney Branch Valley.