Evening star., 1934-04-04
Cards Will Be Distributed to
1865 by Tomorrow,
Ha|bert Says.
COMMUNITY CENTER
PLEA TO BE STUDIED
Request for 155 Workers to Come
Up Today-Relief Need
$25 Monthly.

Work cards have been distributed
to 1900 persons formerly engaged on
the civil works program, emitting
them to occupations under the new
emergency works program, it was an
nounced today by Leroy A. Halbert
director of emergency relief. Before
tomorrow, he estimated, this total will
be raised to 12,675.
Halbert estimated that, in all, 10000
men and women would be found
eligible for the new work-relief pro-
gram, aside from some thousands OF
others who cannot work and will be
eligible for direct relief.
In keeping with the rules of the
Emergency Works Administration, only
those who are certified by Halbert as
eligible for relief may be engaged in
the E. w. A. program. From the
$500 cases which his Office already
has checked. Halbert finds the average
relief budget needed by those applying
for relief will amount to $25 month
Work is to be assigned only on the
basis Of the need of each individual.
Consider Special Request.
The relief authorities this after
noon were to consider through their
Job Planning Committee the request
of Mrs. E. K. Peoples, director of the
District Public Schools Community
Center Department, for 155 employees
from the Emergency Works Admins
tration for assignment in her depart
ment's Summer program. Mrs.
Peoples request was coupled with
her application for reinstatement of
% former workers assigned to her
office by the now defunct c. W. A.
The passing of the c. w. A. re-
suited in the dismissal of the %
workers she had trained for valuable
services in the Community Center
Department, Mrs. Peoples explained
With actually hundreds of high
school graduates turned out by our
system in the June commencement
WITH only very small percentage
of them headed for jobs" Mrs.
Peoples said "it is incumbent on us
to provide a constructive means for
the use of those youths time We
plan to set up recreational centers
in the various high school grounds
after school closes and we need no
less than 155 persons to administer
the facilities We propose to put into
operation for them
16 Dropped by Schools.
Meanwhile, the Franklin School ad-
ministration Offices and other school
headquarters throughout the city were
without 16 C. w. A. clerks who were
ordered dropped from the rolls. School
officers are undertaking to retain vir-
tually all this group of workers on the
grounds that they were performing
necessary work. Each of the 16 cases,
however, is being studied individually
and petitioned for on its own merits.
E. w. A. employees who already
have received work cards were re-
porting today to the District Wood
yard to receive definite work assign
ments. Capt. Howard F. Clark, ex-
ecutive officer of the E. w. A., said
the assignment division could not
handle more than 1000 assignments
today.
It appeared, therefore. that not
more than 1000 would be at work to-
morrow on E. w. A. projects. Today
is an "off duty" day. The number at
work, however, will be increased in
succeeding days as fast as the assign
mani division ran schedule the men
and women to Jobs.
Because of the necessary mechanics
OF the new system, some of the 5000
persons who remained with the c.
w. A. until its end, last Saturday, may
lose one or more days of work until
they receive their work assignments.
A pay roll said to run close to $50,-
600 was disbursed today to the 5000
persons who worked Thursday and
Friday still under c. w. A. status.
Last Saturdays pay roll covered work
performed only through Wednesday.