Montana labor news., 1934-03-22

1.-ORDER-Effective March 81,
1884, the Civil Works Administration
will be suspended and Work Divisions
will be organized by the Emergency
Relief Administration. Until suspen-
sion of Civil Works, reductions in
number of employees will be made in
accordance with the telegraphic in
structions given February %, 1884.
All desirable local and State Civil
Works projects in operation on the
date of the suspension Of Civil Works
may be transferred to the Work Di-
visions of the Emergency Relief Adj
ministrations. All Federal projects
and emergency educational projects
are exempted from this order and
separate instructions will be given
concerning them. All Civil Works
accounts, project records and all other
records will be completed to the date
of suspension and closed out in full
detail, and all required records and
reports must be completed and trans
mitted to Washington.
en-
ployed on Civil Works on the date of
suspension may be transferred to the
work Divisions Of the Emergency Re-
lief Administrations. Essential adj
ministrative and technical personnel
may be transferred from Civil Works
administrations to the Work Divisions
of the Emergency Relief Administra-
ton.
3.-LOCATION-The new program
of work will be carried forward in
town and cities having a population
of more than 5000 and in counties or
other political subdivisions which are
determined by the State Emergency
Relief Administrations to be predom-
inantly urban or industrial. This
determination will be submitted to the
Federal Emergency Relief Admins
traitor at one for review and APP
prevail.
UNEMPLOYMENT BASIS Re-
auctions in Civil Works employment
prior to March 81 will be determined,
first, by laying off employees in
whose families more than one per-
son is gainfully employed; second, by
laying off persons who have other re-
sources. All such persons shall be
dropped in compliance with the re-
auctions in quotas ordered by the
telegraphic instructions of February
%, 1884.
Any additional persons employed
will be selected on a basis of need
by the Emergency Relief Administra-
tions. Needy women shall receive
equal consideration with needy men.
1t will be the policy of the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration to
include in its monthly grants Of funds
to the States funds for the prosecu-
ton of the work program, and these
grants shall be used to provide en-
ployment only for persons in need Of
relief.
5.-METHOD OF OPERATION
The Work Division shall be RESPONSE
bic for the planning, organization and
conduct of work for those certified to
the Division as eligible for relief.
6.-PROJECTS-All projects will
be approved by the State Emergency
Relief Administration and shall be of
a public character, of economic and
social benefit to the general public
or to publicly-owned institutions. They
should be carefully planned to be of
the greatest efficiency and the great
est berefit to the community or the
state. They should be co-ordinated
with larger plans for local and state
Improvement.
All projects must be carried on by
force account (day labor, and not by
contract.
All projects shall be undertaken in
dependently or work under a contract
or for which annual appropriation has
been made and must be, in general,
apart from normal governmental en-
terprises. 1t will not be allowable to
include projects such as garbage col
lection, snow removal, street clean
ing, and lawn maintenance in parks.
7.-MATERIALS - No separate
grants will be made for material pur-
chases.
g.. HOURS AND EARNINGS-The
hours Of labor, earnings and other
working conditions, shall be fixed in
accordance with the rules and regula-
tions established by the Federal Emer-
gency Relief Administrator as fol-
lows:
The hours of employment shall be
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