Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-10
ROOSEVELT ED|CT
TO W.P.A. STRIKERS
CAUSES CONFUSION
NO Work, No Relief Money
UItimatum TangIes Prob.
lem of Officials.
U. S., STATE AND CITY
FUNDS ARE INVOLV WE'D
Splitting of Three Way Knot Will
Mean Financing of Strike
Against Government.
BY the Associated Press.

by lIl6 hSSOCldleu HTeSS.
NEW YORK. August l0.-President
Roosevelt's order of mo work, no re-
lief money" for New Yorks striking
Works Progress Administration en-
ployes today tossed the city's relief
administration into a snarl of con-
fusion
The three-sided partnership OF Fed
eral, State and city relief funds led
New York relief administrators into
a maze of considerations. Their hur-
ried analysis of the implications of the
Presidents ban brought two immedi-
ate complications to the fore:
1. A growing belief that Federal
relief funds cannot be separated from
State and city funds, thus denying
any relief under the Presidents order,
although it applied specifically to Fed
eral moneys.
2. A knowledge that If they can
split the three-way knot that ties
relief funS. they will be financing a
strike against the Federal Govern
ment.
VdAhOut CCCLlS IuCNltdDhCs
Meanwhile in New York City the
Walkout Of skilled workers employed
on various w. p A. projects scheduled
for Monday appeared inevitable More
than $4,000 are reported by union
organizers to be ready to walk out
Monday, joining the 1000 already out.
Added to the skilled workmen, white
collar relief workers pledged their sup
port for the movement for higher
wages and sought to consolidate their
loosely federated unions into a solid
front.
Before the Presidents order vas
published officials of the Temporary
Emergency Relief Bureau and the
Home Relief Bureau had consistently
said that strikers would be placed on
relief.
Funds Are Denied.
Frederick I. Daniels, head OF the
T. E. r. A, in a letter to Miss Char
lotte Carr of the Home Relief Bureau
warned her that August relief funds
had been appropriated and that no
further funds would be Forthcoming.
The home relief funds are supplied
in ratio of approximately So by the
T. E. r. A. to SO by the city. OF
the portion furnished by the T. E.
r. A. so per cent is Federal money.
At the relief bureau it was said that
there was no means of separating the
various funds.
That the unions were depending
on home relief money to finance the
strike was indicated by George
Meany, president of the State Fed
Grafton of Labor, which recommended
the strike.
Il have been assured by Miss Carr"
he said that whether or not
man is on strike will have nothing to
do with his home relief status"
Work to Be Continued.
Work on the Aston low-cost hous-
ing project. key project of the W.
P. A, will be continued on Monday.
Tenement Commissioner Langdon w.
Post said today.
Work on the project was discontin-
ued Thursday when some Of the $50
men there went on strike.
Post said that any men who re-
fused to work would be replaced from
the rolls of the National Re-employ-
ment Service and that the only way
for them to get back on the job would
be through the N. R. S.
Relief administrators explained that
only persons on the relief rolls were
listed with the N. r. S. and that If an
applicant was refused relief he could
not secure employment through that
service.
ROOSEVELT WARNS STRIKERS.