Evening star., 1935-11-24
j. s. SPEEDS WORK
ON RELIEF Jobs
Continuance Of Date Beyond
DeadIine Seen New
Project Plan Reported.
By the Associated Press.

og tLc ASSOClAteQ tIeSS.
A new move to speed work relief
employment conceded yesterday with
statistical indications that the Federal
dole will continue beyond December 1.
An order reminiscent of old Civil
Works Administration methods went
to State works progress directors. 1t
authorized use of skilled labor on mis-
cellaneous projects and represented at
least a temporary departure from the
"work-acc according-to-skill' rule.
officials said the order was designed
to accelerate employment and that
skilled workman will be put at other
tasks-and given correspondingly
higher pay-as soon as suitable prof.
ects can be started.
But some observers interpreted the
change as q reversion to c. w. A.
practices, where a violinist might be
given work digging bitches. 1t was to
avoid this that Harry L. Hopkins d.
rected shaping of the $4,000. 900 900
program on a "tailor-made" basis to
fit the wide variety of occupations
represented on relief rolls.
Relief Extension Seen.
Despite renewed assertions that De-
cember ] was the definite end Of the
Federal dole, signs pointed to con-
tinuance of direct relief beyond that
date for most of the 1,132.758 esti-
mated as eligible for work-relief en-
ployment who had not been given jobs
m November I6
Whether 566,379 jobs a week can be
created so as to attain the 3,500,000
objective on the schedule was a matter
Of speculation, but in any case addi-
tional allotments apparently must be
made for those newly employed until
they actually get paid.
From two to four weeks are required
for the complicated process of compil-
ing the pay rolls from which individ-
ual checks are drawn at State head
quarters of the Treasury disbursing
system. Checks for w. P. A.-which
now employs 1,624,112 and will supply
most of the additional jobs required
are issued only twice month.
Pay Roll Difficulties.
At the time November / was sched-
uled as the deadline for having the
entire 3,500,0oo needy at work, high
officials said these pay roll difficult
ties would make direct relief grants
necessary until November Is. The
situation was said to be the same
now.
Twenty-six States to date have been
told they have received their final"
allotmentS, but what these were was
not announced. Some observers con-
sidered 1t likely that in cutting the
remaining States of the dole, Hop
kins would include extra sums for
support Of those on relief whose jobs
were delayed.
Associates of Hopkins said Mid
die Western speaking tour on the
work-relief program would keep him
away from his desk until Friday. He
plans to speak tomorrow night at the
University Of Michigan and will talk
later in Cleveland, St. Louis and Chi
cago, before returning to spend
Thanksgiving day with his wife in
New York.
In his speeches, he Is expected to
renew his insistence that States and
communities increase their aid to the
several million ''unemployables" who
will lose all Federal help when the
Relief Administration is nquidated.
Also. officials looked for Hopkins to
insist anew that the work-relief pro-
gram is providing as many solidly
useful projects as was possible with
the supply of relief labor.
To Confer With Roosevelt.
When he will go to Warm Springs,
Ga, for budget conferences with
President Roosevelt was said not to
be determined. In addition to work
relief jobs. the first of which were
given in August, the Relief Admins
tration has allotted more relief funds
to States since January than during
all 1884. This years figure was
$1,283,171 ,341, compared with 81 ,o6S,-
970,711 last year.
"Tapering off," the Relief Admin
istration already has cost $500, 900 900
more than the $3.50, 100000 first esti-
mated, with q corresponding loss in
funds available for Jobs.
At relief headquarters yesterday, so
welfare workers, who said they were
afraid discontinuance of the Federal
dole would mean loss Of their Jobs,
appealed for continuance of direct
relief beyond December /.
The official reply, given by Aubrey
Williams, acting works progress ad.
ministrator, was that although he be-
lieved case work should be continued
for unemployables, funds did not per-
NIT additional expenditures after the
work-relief program gets fully under
way.