Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-02
CITY IS ALLOTTED
$2,O17,@3 FOR NEW
WORKS PROGRAM
Board Seeks to Avoid DELAY
by Asking Presidents
Approval Now.
TOTAL OF 142 MILLION
SOUGHT FOR COUNTRY
Aliens Proposals for Highway
and Sewer Improvements Would
Cover 81, 100000.

The President had before him to-
day recommendation from the Fed
eral Allotment Board for the imme-
date grant to the District, three
States and New York City of sl42,-
245.875 for a prompt start Of works
projects requiring little or no cost for
material.
The Districts allotment out of this
sum was listed at $2.017,043, OF which
$4,000 would be allowed for admin
istrative expense. Other portions of
the proposed allotment would be
s78,6573l0 for New York City, of
which s2,350,O00 would be allowed for
administration; Alabama, sl0.196.346
with S305.0O0 for administration;
Georgia, Sl0,256,6OO with 100000 for
administration. and Indiana, ST.
052973 with s1,1l0,OO0 for admins
tration.
The move was interpreted in some
quarters as a means of getting the
new works program into operation to
avoid delays neceSsitated by engi-
neering checks of applications for
funds for projects having consider
able costs for material.
Sl,500.eGO in Projects.
Commissioner Allen. works admin
istrator for tee District, already has
filed with Federal officials projects
calling for the use of more than ST.
100000. The first group of proposals
was for series of highway and sewer
system Improvements. Since then
city departments have proposed many
additional programs to Allen. He and
other officials in charge of the Dis
trict program today we're in New York
attending a regional conference Of
works executives. There was no word
at the District Building, therefore. as
to just how the near wo-million-dol-
lar fund would be spent, but the set
up indicated a continuation of pro-
grams similar to that operated in the
past under the emergency works pro-
gram.
Under this new "stop-gap" low-cost
works operation there would be limi-
tation of spending not more than sS12
per person each year. The District
has been informed that under the
regular works program its limitation
would be 5000 per year per man. BY
that calculation the first allotment
would put about 2,400 to work. The
reduction was calculated apparently
on the theory that under the substi-
tuted temporary program much less
money would be required for purchase
of material
The tentative schedule for wages
provided S45 a month for common
labor and ranged up to SO for skilled
workmen.
District relief rolls contain the
names OF about $4,000 who could be
employed. Five thousand are claSsed
as unemployables.
Programs Ready.
Federal officials who made public
the recommendations of the Allot-
mentS Board could not explain why
the three States, the District and New
York City were selected as recipients
Of the proposed substitute grant. Some
who have been following the program,
however, advanced the theory that in
the case of Alabama and Indiana,
those States some time ago said they
had programs all ready and hoped to
put men to work at once. For the
District. Allen has been hoping for
speed in starting the new works
operations.
In other quarters there was the ex-
PLANTATION of protests against the
months of delay in starting the new
works program since Congress passed
the $780, 100000 appropriation.