Evening star., 1934-02-28
|C, WA. REDUCTION
| TO 1900 HERE IN
MONTH ORDERED
Relief Program Under Pres.
ent Arrangement to
End by May !.
ATTENTION TURNED
TO YEARS FINANCING
Commissioner Allen Given Sched-
ule Of Curtailments Arranged
by Administrator.

Orders for reduction Of the number
OF District civil works employees from
a quota of $4,000 to 5000 between
Friday and the end Of March were
received today by the District Com
missioners from Federal C. w. A.
headquarters while District officials
were formulating means of meeting
the emergency relief problems during
the next fiscal year.
The civil works program under pres.
ent arrangements is to end May /.
The future relief program, as now
contemplated. calls for closer co.
ordination between the relief division
the public employment center un.
der the Labor Department and ali
employers of workers in the District
Commissioner Allen said serious atten-
t1on Is being given to means Of financ-
ing emergency relief here during the
next fiscal year.
1900 Assigned Here.
The District now has approximately
$4,000 C.. W. A. workers on Job as
signments. Under instructions given
by Federal authorities late Saturday
1000 of these must be dismissed before
Friday.
In addition to this curtailment
Harry L. Hopkins, administrator OF
the Federal civil works program, noti-
fed Commissioner Allen today that
1000 other workers must be dismissed
before March 30.
His instructions were:
You are herewith ordered to re-
duce the total number of employees
on all civil works projects In the
State District) other than Federal
projects and emergency educational
program in accordance with the fol-
lowing schedule
Effective March 8. reduce tc
$4,000 persons.
Effective March 1s. reduce to
II 900 persons.
Effective March %. reduce to
10000 persons.
Effective March 80. reduce to
5000 persons.
These quotas include drivers Of
their own teams and trucks. Pre-
vious wires have emphasized necessity
OF completing accounting and other
records. This is not to be construed
as permission to retain clerical and
administrative employees who are no
longer NEEDED, and it is expected that
substantial reductions will be made in
clerical forces"
$11.o00.000 Expenditure.
In emphasizing the emergency relief
problem facing the District during the
next fiscal year. Commissioner Allen
said that from last July / to May
of this year the District would have
expended approximately $1,000, 900
here in various programs designed to
afford unemployed relief He said
this was an estimate, but one that
must be substantially accurate. This
total included money spent on civil
works projects since middle November,
funds for civil works service projects.
paid out of District relief funds; the
District appropriation OF S1,30o000
for emergency relief; Federal grants
to the District for emergency relief
and S1,918.000 granted to the District
by The Public Works Administration
for road improvements and approx
mately $l,750,000 granted by the
P. w. A. for sewer projects here.
The proposed 1885 District budget
contains an item of $1,300,000 for
emergency relief purposes in the Dis
trtct next year. Allen said this OBJ
viously was far from adequate.
Means of handling the unemploy-
ment problem here after May / are
being studied by Allen and Leroy A.
Halbert, director of emergency relief;
David Ruml. director of the public
employment center; Capt. Howard F.
Clark and william c. Cleary, repre-
senting the District c. w. A., and
Arch Mandel. field representative of
the Federal Emergency Relief Admin
istration, now surveying emergency
relief methods here.
New Headquarters Plan.
One new step now being contem-
plated is proposed construction Of q
new central emergency relief head
quarters, to be built by District G. w.
A. workers, using brick manufactured
at the District Work House at Deco
quan. Va. The central headquarters
at John Marshall place and c street
have been found inadequate.
After the C. w. A. program ends 1t
is expected the District will reorganize
a program of made work" to give
employment to men and women on
relief who are capable of working.
Another plan under consideration Is
to place some 5000 or 1000 Of the
younger persons on relief in schools,
the program to be financed out Of re-
lief funds.
Several thousand others, now sub
ject to relief. Allen estimated, could
be provided for under the old-age pen
sion bill, II passed by Congress at this
session.