Milford chronicle., 1934-02-16
DROP 600 CWA
WORKERS. In STATE
rcantinuld from Fir,t Faatl

this money 1000 men will immediate
ly be put to work in addition TO tne
$500 already employed on CWA
proiects: that in addition to the pro-
iects already under way others have
been approved and are ready for i'm
mediate construction upon orders
from Washington to proceed ana
that additional projects will be pre-
pared and approved that will give
employment, to another large num-
ber of unemployed, all of which will
be financed from the States share
OF the $3.50, 100000 relief act.
Discontinuance of the CWA mos
duito control work and the discharge
Of the 500 men engaged on its does
not mean that the mosquito control
project in this State as being carried
out by the Civilian Conservation
Corps will be stopped. The two
camps of C. c. c. men will be main
taihed as heretofore and the control
work will go forward without inter-
ruption. This CWA mosquito work
was being done along similar lines
but under CWA supervision and as
ii was on private land it was listed
among the projects which Admins
TRAITOR Hopkins ordered stopped. The
CWA mosquito camp members were
maid As cents on hour with the SUI
pervisors receiving a little more.
Practically all of the 500 are from
Sussex county where the camp was
located and the work done. All those
thus employed had been secured
from the unemployment Office where
they had registered as unemployed
workers.
The tick control project, which is
incomplete, was under the super
vision of L. A. Stearns and directed
by Donald MacCleary. The n work
ers had been engaged about six
weeks. Practically all of them are
from Sussex county with few from
Kent county. All the work was be-
ing performed in Kent and Sussex
counties. The sanitary outhouse work
was a minor job being carried on
in Kent and Sussex counties.
The rural housing survey was in
charge of Mrs. Helen Mckinley, WO-
mems Club leader of the Extension
Service. The tax delinquency survey
and homestead survey were under
the direction of Professor M. M.
Daugherty, of the University of Del
aware. Nearly 100 per cent of all
these Federal projects were being
carried on in Kent and Sussex
counties.
Allotment of the $3.50, 100000 fund |
which has heretofore been done on |
a basis of population, if carried out |
on the same plan. will mean Della !
ware will receive approximately ST. |
SOC, 900. This will not only enable |
the continuance of present CWA pro-
jects but will make possible an ad-
ditional program. With the $500 now |
employed and the addition Of about I
1000 on new projects that have been
and are ready to proceed !
it will mean work will be provided
for nearly 5000 as soon as the CWA
officials are advised by Washington
that they may proceed.
In addition to this, other projects
will Immediately be formulated and
approved that will give employment
10 large number of additional men
but no estimate of this extra num-
ber could be made by the CWA di-
rectors last night.
1t was emphasized by CWA Of
Iicials that the possible $l,S00,O0O
Delaware may receive under the new
relief bill should not in any way be
confused with direct relief funds.
rhis money, il received, will not
eliminate the necessity for direct re-
lief in this State and it will be neces-
,ary for the General Assembly when
/ meets next month to consider leg
station to provide funds to carry on
his work. II is estimated the State
will have to provide at least $780,
100 for the continuance of direct re-
ief.
In his order demobilizing the CWA
Irmy, administrator Hopkins direct
d various departments and bureaus
o reduce their Civil Works forces
rom SO to 80 per cent. Those to be
ontinued on the payroll are to be
ropped at the rate of 10 per cent a
reek until May when the last OF
be 100000 employees are scheduled Il
D be let out. Because Of the COM
aratively small number involved in
his State II was said last night the
ntire force would be dropped to-
ay.