Evening star., 1935-05-17
TUGWELL STARTS
LAND SETTLEMENT
Begins Buying Acreage
Without Waiting for Work
Relief Regulations.
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for road and rail crossing projects.
Walker said 500 0,000, 900 Of this was
from an old unappropriated Federal
highway fund, with 5000 100000 for
highways, roads and streets and an
identical sum for grade crossing elm
nations coming from the new fund.
Every State received at least $1,000
600 from this haf-billion, with New
York and Texas getting nearly $780,
000,0 900 each.
$249, 1860, 900 for Housing.
Few details were made public on the
$249, $50 900 allotted to 81 slum clear
ance and low-rent housing projects.
Officials said land must be purchased
first on most of these, or speculative
buying could block them before they
got started.
Information on the Al waterways
projects, which Army engineers Will
direct, was more complete. These
total $l12,186,500 and include navi-
CATION, dredging and repairs on prin-
cipal rivers, canals and harbors over
the country.
Army engineers also will have $i0,-
000,000 to harness tidal power along
the Maine seacoast in start on the
long debated Passamaquoddy Bay
project.
Secretary Ickes said Maj Philip B
Fleming, former deputy public works
administrator, would be assigned by
the War Department to construct the
Passamaquoddy Bay project.
The huge sewer program, for which
funds for New York City were recon-
mended, involves the 30-per-cent-
grant-and-70-per cent loan idea. The
plan calls for the city to repay 10 per
cent of the money and fulfill other
obligations to be discussed in further
negotiations. The city is to supply
the rest of the S25,000.000 the plant
will cost.
Alaska Gets S446,5O0.
Alaska was remembered by s446.-
500 ALLEGATION for highway construc-
ton, and a S20,000,000 allotment for
the Lower Colorado River project in
Texas was listed separately.
Details were unavailable today on
10 non-Federal projects from the old
Public Works Administration other
than their total, sl,620,000.
Only the slum clearance and low
rent housing projects in eight ciies
were made public. They were in
Cleveland, Williamsburg, N. Y; Chi
cago, Milwaukee. Cincinnati, Nash
vile, Boston and Louisville.
However, of the 81 projects ap-
proved, work had been started or
land purchased on 36. officials said.
and then halted when $110,000,000 of
P. w. A. housing funds were i'm
pounded for direct relief needs.
Resentment Flares Over Wages.
They said the other 81 projects,
classed as new, actually had been
submitted to the housing officials for
several months, but action was de-
layed for lack of funds.
Even before the Allotment Board
met yesterday, members of Congress
and labor officials were giving express
sion to resentment at advices that a
plan had been drawn up calling for
payment on works projects of about
80 per cent less than prevailing wages.
Senator McCarran. Democrat. Of
Nevada planned to take to the floor
of the Senate his steaming protest at
the wage levels tentatively drawn up
for the Presidents consideration.
This plan would call for monthly en-
velopes ranging from. SIG for un-
skilled workers in the South TO s9S
for a skilled workman in New York
City. An alternative plan. the de-
tails of which were held secret, also
has been mapped
McCarran said he did not believe
President Roosevelt would accept a
proposal to pay less than prevailing
wages.