Evening star., 1935-10-14
j. S. Jobs SERVICE
DOUBLES STAFF
Personnel Totals 10000 in
Struggle to Place $780,
600 Workers.
BY the Associated Press.

The United States Employment
Service has doubled its staff as the
Government struggles to get its jobs
program going smoothly.
The service has been assigned the
responsibility of assisting in the
placement of the 3.5OO,O00 relief re-
cipients whom the President Is seek
ing to transfer to the new works
program.
Frank w. Persons, director of the
service, said today:
1--WE have increased our personnel
to 10000, distributed in 1900 Offices,
to care for increased registrations as
well as to reclassify our files to place
those eligible for work relief jobs in
separate category.
1--WE will use our spare time to con-
tact private industry on opportuni-
ties for jobs"
Employables Registered.
Under a regulation by Harry L.
Hopkins, works progress administra-
tor, all the employables on relief have
registered with the service. With the
exception of P. w. A. and housing
projects, virtually all those beneftting
from the work-relief program will be
taken from relief rolls. All members
of the Civilian Conservation Corps also
are to be taken from relief families.
Persons said that in the last 26
months the Employment Service had
filled 2,720,l68 jobs in private indus
try, besides those selected for the P.
W. A. and other Federal relief en-
ployment.
I'VE have enlisted our forces" he
said, lin program to get out of re-
lief and to get the unemployed into a
status of self-sustaining employment,
not temporary, but as a settled policy
of this program Of recovery"
He said that when private Jobs
are available, the best qualified men
on the rolls will be selected and re-
ferred to the private employers. If
these men happen to be on works
progress jobs they will be transferred
to private employment.
Schools Get Large Share.
P. w. A. reported to Secretary
1ckeS meanwhile that school construc-
ton comprised more than half the
1855 projects in its part Of the work.
relief program.
The 2,l33 new school buildings,
which will receive $13O,696,18s of the
$3.50, 100000 new P. w. A. program,
recalled the New Deals unprecedented
subsidization of education, literature
and the arts from relief funds.
Half a million high school and COL
lege students will get part-time Jobs
this year from the National Youth
Administrations $4,000 900 allotment,
which may be increased to $50,000,-
900.
Last year 10000 unemployed teach
ers were given jobs conducting classes
in adult education attended by 2,0OO,-
600 both from relief rolls and the gen.
eral public. Similar activities are
planned this year by the Works Prog
ress Administration.
Dwarfing the Federal Governments
previous activities in conducting the
Military Academy at West Point, the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, the
Coast Guard Academy at New Lon
don, Conn, and Indian schools with
an enrolment of $1,000, the Civilian
Conservation Corps expects to provide
vocational education for practically all
of its 100000 members.
Instruction Manuals Issued.
Robert Fechner, corps director, to-
day issued the first two of Is instruc-
ton manuals for the 1900 camp edu-
cational advisers, with 78 district di-
rectors, who will carry out the pro-
gram. These, dealing with agriculture
and automobile repairing, will be fol-
lowed by others on automotive elec-
tricity, carpentry, concrete construc-
ton, cooking, conservation of natural
resources, forestry, house wiring, ele-
mentary masonry and bricklaying, me-
chanical drawing, photography, radio
servicing, soil conservation, plane sur
veying. They were prepared by
the Office of education which drafted
the National Youth Administration
program.
There also is a $4,000 900 allot-
ment, part of a 100000 white
collar program. which will provide
jobs for $4,000 writer's, actors, painters
and musicians in coming months.
The S130,000,000 P. w. A. school
program includes 2,038 secondary
school buildings. II of colleges and