Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-22
ALLEN TO COME
WITH DEPARTMENT
HEADS ON WORKS
Chiefs Will Be Given InStruC-
ton and Asked to Sub
nit Projects.
NEED FOR CONTINUITY
OF JOBS TO BE STRESSED
Administrator Elated Over Seven
Proposals to Provide Employ
ment for $500.

With the works program here be-
ginning to take definite shape Com
missioner George E. Allen, recently
named work progress administrator.
announced today he will call in all
District government departmental
heads Monday to ask them to submit
projects.
He disclosed that seven projects de-
signed to furnish employment to $500
persons already have been submitted
to the Federal Allotment Board and
approval is expected early next week.
Once these projects are under way
one-f1fth of the employables now on
relief rolls will have been cared for.
At the Monday conference, Sched-
uled for II am, Allen will instruct
the department chiefs as to the pro-
cedure to follow in submitting prof.
ects. After that it will be up to
them to come forward with their
plans. Allen said he does not intend
to hurry them, but those projects
which come earliest stand the best
chance of approval. The need for
furnishing continuity Of employment
will be stressed by the work progress
director throughout the conference.
Must Provide Work for Year.
Projects which put men to work for
any period less than year are likely
to be given a cold reception, unless
they are dovetailed with others to
round out the full IL months. Allen
is determined that persons shall not
be out to work for a short period
and then allowed to drift back onto
relief.
The men involved are more i'm
portant than the jobs, the commits
Sioner contends, and their interests
are paramount to all other considera-
lions.
This does not mean, however, that
projects will be favored which are
not sound and constructive with a
viewpoint of accomplishing some
thing for the community. Both ele-
ments will be required, but the human
side of the problem will receive first
consideration, Allen said.
Accordingly, governmental heads
will be instructed to submit projects
In which the main cost is for labor.
Enthusiastic Over Projects.
Allen was enthusiastic about the
seven projects already proposed to
Federal authorities.
They are for necessary work and
are real constructive jobs, things the
tax payers would have to bear the
burden Of if we did not do them" he
said. "Once these projects are ap-
proved and underway, we can forget
about the men they will employ just
as if they had been placed in private
Jobs"
He said details concerning the seven
projects will be announced when they
are approved.
Only strictly local work will be con-
sidered at the Monday conference,
since the question of whether the Dis
trict work progress director will have
jurisdiction over Federal projects To-
Gated here has not been decided. Con-
siderable argument has been put for
ward for vesting such control in him,
however, since the available labor mar
ket is purely local.
Allen announced he has decided to
continue as his principal aides the
leutenants who worked with him
under the old Federal emergency re-
lief set-up. Capt. Howard F. Clark,
Assistant Engineer Commissioner, will
be deputy work progress admins
traitor, and William c. Cleary will
occupy the post of administrative
assistant.