Evening star., 1941-07-01
District Schedules
W.P. A. Reduction
0f3.95O This Week
Defense Projects Kept;
Cuts Liehtened in
Community Service Work

Approximately 1000 of the 5000
persons now working under the
District w. P. A. today faced loss
of their jobs by Thursday as Dis
trict w. P. A. Administer Paul
Edwards took steps to effect the
quota cut ordered by Federal Com
missioner Howard o. Hunter.
The Districts quota reduction
which actually amounts to about A
per cent instead of so per cent, as
originally announced will be
started today and completed by
Thursday, Administrator Edwards
announced late yesterday as he
disclosed that certain Health and
Welfare Department proje ct S
carried on with w. P. A. aid will
not be cut as drastically as had been
planned tentatively after the Fed
eral order was issued.
OF the 1855 remaining workers,
some 5000 are being retained on
projects certified as necessary to
the national defense program,
while the rest will be on welfare,
public activities and community
service projects.
Public Benefit Considered.
In apportioning the cuts, Mr..
Edwards said, an effort was made
to continue projects, such as the
school lunch program, the loss of
which would cause hardships not
only for w. P A. workers who
would lose their jobs. but for other
persons who are benefited directly
by such programs.
Mr.. Edwards made public a re-
vised schedule of the projects to
be dropped or curtailed and dis
closed, at the same time, that the
Federal w. P. A. Office had revised
its order to permit retention of 400
additional workers, chiefly to allow
for continuation of the writer's, art
and music projects.
Mr.. Edwards originally had
planned to drop the cultural prof.
ects, but Commissioner Hunter
subsequently announced that these
projects would be retained here and
elsewhere because it was felt they
helped to maintain morale.
The revised program of reduc-
tions announced by Administrator
Edwards showed that certain local
projects would be able to keep more
workers than the initial reduction
program had anticipated, and
that others would not be cut off
completely.
Retain 50 at Home for Aged.
Fifty of the SO workers now en-
ployed on a service project at the
Home for the Aged and Infirm at
Blue Plains are to be retained. 1t
had been planned to cut this prof.
ect off completely. Sixty-seven
others employed on construction
project at this institution will be
dropped, however.
The school lunch program, which
has been tentatively cut from 256
to 100, will be permitted to retain
$50 workers, instead.
At Gallinger Hospital, SO of the
90 w. P. A. workers now assigned
to general assistance work will be
retained, although the q on a
Gallinger cleaning project will be
dropped. The general assistance
project also was amcng those orig
inally scheduled to be cut off.
A total of 1876 will be retained on
the writers, art and music projects.
There are now a total of 1898
on the local rolls. and this figure
will be cut by 3,427 to a new total
Of 1866. OF the 4.647 workers now
On the so-called operations prof.
ects, 3,035 will be retained. Com
munity service projects will be cut
from 3,096 to 1921 and $50 workers
on certain Federal projects will be
dropped.
Breakdown of Figures.
Here's breakdown of the prof.
ects and the number of workers to
be dropped or kept on each:
D. c. woodward, "a, all dropped;
D. G. Repair Shop, 81, all dropped; !;
Bureau of Standards (three prop
ects) 116, all retained; mosquito
control, Al retained; Water Depart
ment, IS of 164 retained; Army
Medical Center, 1O2 of 1874 retained;
Rural Electrification Administra-
ton, 157, all dropped; Veterans Bu-
reau (at Mount Alto Hospital), Is
retained; Sewer Department, rs of
620 retained; National Capital
Parks, 56, all dropped; National
Training School for Boys, 26, all
dropped; Boiling Field, 223 retained;
Engineer Office of War Department,
is retained.
Fort Simms. now 54, increased to
IS: Home For Aged. 81 construction
workers dropped; Coast Guard, q
retained; construction Of access
road between Boiling Field and
Naval Air Station. now 72sincreased