Evening star., 1935-09-17
.|CKES. TO SLASH q
LIST OF PROJECTS
Funds Limited - Housing
and Power Plants
at Stake. ID -
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Ickes said today extensive
revision must be made in thousands
of applications for public works prof.
ects If they are to qualify under the
revised works program.
He added at his press conference
that more than half of the 10000 ap-
plications on file fail to comply with
a yardstick laid down by President
Roosevelt.
The President has said all contracts
must be let by December Is and prof.
ects finished in year, that they must
be in regions where workers can be
drawn from relief rolls and the average
pay per worker must not exceed $3.50
annually.
Ickes said he did not believe the
December IS deadline was intended
by the President to be retroactive, with
reference to projects for which allot-
ments already had been made.
Might Jump Over Board.
Another deadline set for today,
when the final meeting Of the Works
Allotment Board was scheduled, was
scrapped by the Presidents revision
OF the $4,000 ,OO0,0 900 program. Ickes
said.
He added the board probably would
attempt to have one final meeting be-
fore the President leaves on his West
ern trip. but that If there was not
time Mr.. Roosevelt might approve
projects directly without their going
through the formality Of board ap-
proval.
Ickes said his understanding now
was that P. W. A. would receive $780,
100000 from the remaining $780,
900 1000 of work-relief funds, plus
500, 900, 900 for housing, which would
be added to the $127 900, 900 already
set aside for public works develop
ments.
The Secretary said that size Of
projects probably would not handicap
| their chances of consideration in the
revised program and that the question
simply goes to per man cost"
Some exceptions might be made to
meet specific situations" he added.
Power Projects at Stake.
Asked about the status of munich
pal power projects under the altered
set-up, the Secretary said, I'VE want
to do as well as We can by them. but
they will be considered on the same
basis as other projects, in the light
Of the unemployment situation, per
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completion"
Because of a cut In funds Ickes said
the housing program was in a more
difhcult position" He was unable 20
predict how many housing projects
might have to be eliminated.
Approval Of all types Of projects,
he stressed. will depend largely on
whether they are ready to go imme-
diately into the construction stage
Some OF the 1000 projects which
once we're turned down by Harry L.
Hopkins, works progress administrator,
now stand a chance for reconsidera-
ton under the revised program
worked out by the President, Ickes ex-
planned. He indicated that Hopkins
veto power had been removed by Mr..
Roosevelt
Relief Cut Protested.
A score of representatives of the
| National Unemployment Council, led
by Herbert Benjamin, New York radi-
/ cal, protested to relief administration
officials yesterday against the chopping
of on November of Federal contribu-
tions to the States for direct relief.
The delegation also talked with Nels
Anderson in the Labor Relations Di-
vision.
At the same time a group of dozen
Chicago white-collar workers protested
to Bruce Mcclure. head of the Pro-
fessional and Services Division, against
treatment Of professional workers
under the relief program.