Evening star., 1934-08-26
10000 GIVEN Jobs
BY LOANS TO RAILS.
Roads Begin Expansion Pro-
rram With 1870 Million
From p. w. A.

The Public Works Administration
yesterday announced that more than
half Of the $1so, $50, 500 it has allotted
to 81 railroad companies has been
paid out. and that 7o,o6o men had
been directly employed as a result Of
these loans by July IS, with probably
Q considerably greater number indi-
rectly benefited.
The actual disbursement on the
loans totaled sos ,so4, 900, according to
q report to Secretary Harold L. Ickes,
as public works administrator, by
Frank c. Wright, director Of the
p. w. A. division Of transportation
loans. Itemizing the direct employ
ment created by this program, which
lis intended to stimulate activity In the
tagging heavy industries. Wright re-
ported:
Cd That 20,533 railway shopmen
were employed in the shops Of IA
roads to which P. w. A. made loans
totaling $51 sos, ,o43 for repairing and
rebuilding old cars and locomotives
and building new ones in their own
shops.
Track Men Employed.
(2) That 35,9o2 track men and
other classes of outside railway en-
ployes were working on right Of way
improvements being made by 10 rail-
roads as a result Of $77,075,957 Of
loans made by P. W. A. to finance
those improvements.
CD That 1S,625 men were en-
ployed in the shops Of locomotive and
car building companies which have re-
ceived orders for new cars and loco
motives as result Of P. w. A. loans
totaling $61 1,ses,5oo to ID railroad
companies.
The indirect and industrial employ
ment created by the placing OF or
ders for approximately $l00, 900
worth Of materials of every descrip-
ton being used in this vast program
| Of railroad construction and rehabih-
tation cannot be accurately stated,
Wright said, explaining that this In
direct employment Is scattered
through thousands Of industries in
every section Of the country. It is
estimated, however, that for every
man directly employed there is at
least one man, and probably two,
working elsewhere to supply and
transport materials to him.
Work Scattered.
The direct employment is as widely
scattered as the indirect. Among the
railroads reporting the largest num-
Der Of shopmen at work were the
Southern Pacific, with 59,926 men in
its shops and roundhouses in Western
and Southwestern States: the Penn
sylvania, with 3,447 men In Pennsyl-
vania; the Illinois Central, with 4,187
men from Chicago southwark, and
the Great Northern, with 2,28s men
In the Northwest.
Railroads reporting the largest
number Of track and outside employees
were the Pennsylvania, with 10,408
men employed between New York
and Washington on It's electridcation
program; the Southern Pacific, with
$3.50 men on its lines In the West
and Southwest; the Great Northern,
with 5,857 men In the Northwest;
the Chicago & Northwestern, with
1918 men in the Middle West; the
Boston & Maine, with 2,425 men IN
New England, and the Erie, with g.
os3 men ON its lines between New
York and Chicago.
The stimulus that the P. w. A.
loans for purchase Of new equipment
has given to the long dormant car
and locomotive building industries Is
indicated by the fact that out of
s,272 men employed in the shops
where P. w. A. financed equipment
is being assembled, 13,625 were en-
ployed on that equipment.