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summary, the report itself being
mimeographed and bound for general
distribution.
Less than a third of billion dol
lars of the original S4,88o, ,000, 900 fund
remained unallocated on February %.
The bulk of the s2,2100O0,000 expen-
ditures-checks actually issued by the
Treasury-had been made by three
agencies, the F. E. R. A, w. P. A. AM
c. c. c. More than three-quarters
of the total works program expendi-
lures charged against the regular ex-
ecutive departments of the Govern
ment, the report showed, were made
by the War and Agricultural Depart
ments.
With the cessation of grants to
States for direct relief purposes, Hop
kins warned that the Federal relief
program now centering around the
3,853000 employables is intimately
connected with future employment
opportunities in private industry.
The Works Progress Administration
accounted for 3,039,000 of the heads
of families or single persons given
employment or about 80 per cent o1
the whole Another II per cent OF
| 459 900 persons were in the c. c. C
| camps, while the remaining per cent
or $4,000 were employed on projects
under the supervision of other Fed
eral agencies.
The Public Works Administration
under Secretary Ickes, was credited
with having put 41,000 men to work
being nosed out by Rexford G. Tug
wells Resettlement Administration,
which claimed 47,000 jobs.
February Represents Peak.
1T is expected that the February
90 employment will represent the ap-
proximate peak of employment fol
the works program as a whole" Hop
kins reported las seasonal work In
agriculture, in private construction
and in other industries opens up in
the Spring, the need for employment
under the works program will decline
During this period, however. the
work of the Bureau of Public Roads
(Which has provided $1,000 jobs to
date. the Public Works Administra-
ton and most Of the other agencies
will also expand materially. Many
workers now employed by the Works
Progress Administration are expected
to secure jobs either in private EN-.
ployment or with other agencies oper-
ating under the works program dur.
ing the coming months.
1T is expected that, as the result
OF these factors. employment under
the Works Progress Administration
will be reduced to approximately
100000 by the end of June"
Hopkins estimated that $3.50 900. .O0C
will be contributed by local com.
munity sponsors of projects conducted
by w. P. A. and a like amount by
local sponsors of P. w. A. Further
more, the report points out, P. w. A.
will provide almost s15o,oo 900 from
prior appropriations as loans to assist
| in financing its projects.
Exclusive of grants to States for re-
lief purposes, an analysis showed that
S475,000,000. or about two-thirds OF
all expenditures, went for pay rolls
A total Of s125,O0O,OOO spent thus far
for materials and supplies represents
about 18 per cent of all payments.
Four Major Purposes.
Of the total of all obligations dis
charged through February 20, sso2,.
274,000 was charged to F. E. r. A..
SAB, 100000 to w. P. A., $424 $4,000
TO the c. C. c., $269, ,235 900 to the
Agriculture Department, s126,OOo ,oOC
to the P. w. A., S88,319,000 to the
War Department and $86,9SO,0O0 tc
all other agencies.