Evening star., 1934-11-25
j. s. STUDIES PLAN
TO JOIN ACTIVITIES:
P. W. A., Work Relief and
Other FederaI' Agencies
May Be Centralized.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
A study aimed at knitting public
works, emergency work relief and
other widespread work giving acitivi-
ties of the Government into cohesive
unit was disclosed yesterday to have
been ordered by the administration.
Donald R. Richberg ordered the
study first as one of his efforts at
been taken up by President Roose-
velt's Committee on Economic Sc
curity. There has arisen the posi-
bility that when the committees full
report Poes to the President in De-
cember a section may be devoted to
recommendations on how to prune
the tangle of work activities into one
strong unit.
Back of the order is a desire to get
into one agency the public works, the
wide range of emergency work relief,
the several other forms of separately
conducted emergency employment.
and possibly the Civilian Conservation
Corps.
Expert Directing Work.
The study is being conducted by an
expert in the Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration He is directing it not
only at the idea of mapping out the
administrative Set-up of an agency
which would conduct such work, but
with a view to determining which of
the present agencies might best
handle it.
There has been some talk of broad
ening one of the divisions OF the
Labor Department, perhaps the en-
ployment unit, to embrace these &C
tivitieS. Others have expressed the
view that a separate public welfare
department should be set up to handle
not only emergency work units, but
the long-range subjects covered by
the proposed economic security plan.
Under the latter plan, unemploy-
ment insurance. old age pensions and
the wide-scoped social benefits pro-
gram would all be put into one de-
partment
Some Conflicts Noted.
Under the present system several
different emergency divisions are
conducting work programs, some OF
them conflicting. In the past there
have been wide differences in wages
and hours observed. Some of these
have been smoothed out already
The criticism has been raised, how
ever, that the whole program should
march forward as a unit instead OF
struggling unevenly.
The Public Works Administration
has several forms of work going ahead
The Relief Administration has widt
assortment of work relief and emer.
gency employment. In spots there
is an overlapping which might bt
eliminated if the plans emanated from
a central source.
The Civilian Conservation Corps
comes under slightly different cate.
CORY and might be omitted from con-
sideratlon in the final plans. Thi:
competitive character, with the Gov
ernment doing a job in field which
private industry does not enter. II
might be retained as separate unit
to be abandoned when the job is fin
ished.
The public works and relief activi.
ties, however, are regarded as fields
which may be taken over into private
domain later, although some form Of
such endeavor is believed by officials
to be necessary for a considerable
time to come.
New Agency's Duties Many.
The new agency which may arise
from the study would be charged alsc
with the administration of the re-
employment plans being charted by
the Presidents Economic Security
Committee. This phase, which with
the unemployment insurance program
may be the only sections of the com.
mittee's work that see legislative ight
at the next session of Congress, vii
take into consideration not only pub
lie, but private, employment poSslbill-
ties.
The program through which tht
administration hopes to send the up
ward of 10 million unemployed
marching back to jobs is being shaped
along long-range lines. Although
springing into bright prominence be-
cause OF its own consequence, it alsc
fits into the background of the un'
employment insurance picture.
The committee takes the view thai
before men may be entitled to unem-
ployment insurance they must frs
be given work. To broaden the scope
of the unemployment insurance GRO
gram so as to cover the bulk of Amer.
lean workmen job giving must be
stimulated.
1t is a welding of job-giving activi.
ties. public and private, that the
study seeks.