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ICKES SEESP.W.A FAVOROVERW.P.A Some Cities Reject Hopkins’ Plan, He Says, 'Desiring Prevailing Wage. By the Associated Press. Championing an expanded public works program, Secretary Ickes yes- terday asserted that many Western cities had rejected more liberal terms from Harry L. Hopkins' Works Prog- ress Administration because they pre- ferred to pay prevailing wages. His statement coincided with ad- ministration plans for a showdown to- | morrow in relief-strike-threatened New York City over the wage sched- | ules fixed by Hopkins for all the rest of the work-relief program except highway construction. Although Ickes did not mention the | widespread labor protests agaiast the | $10-t0-$94 W. P. A. monthly wage | schedule, it was interpreted by some | here as an argument for an expanded | P. W. A. program. The Public Works Administration was given jurisdiction over most construction projects cost- ing $25.000 or more, but scores of heavy building allotments have been assigned to Hopkins' organizaticn. Wages Are Contrasted. Attacks on the Hopkins schedule had emphasized the contrast with the wages paid on public works projects, which were from 40 cents to 50 cents W. P. A. Workers Storm Johnson’s Office an hour for unskilled labor and $1 to $1.20 for skilled, or higher, to match | the union scale where it prevailed. Hopkins retorted, however, that as- | sured employment, with no deductions | for time out because of bad weather, | actually would leave little differcnce between P. W. A. and ‘“security” wages. Some reductions, too, were predicted after Ickes' recent order di- recting local governments to fix the &cale on their projects, although he authorized State P. W. A. directors to | require the union scale in communi- ties where it was customary for public construction. Declaring a tour of P. W. A. officials had revealed that “the West has pre- | pared a balanced program of useful, permanent public works projects which it prizes sufficiently to meet 55 per cent of the cost locally to matci the Federal grant of 45 per cent,” Ickes added this comment from Col. Horatio B. Hackett, assistant P. W. A. ad- ministrator: “A number of communities were so desirous of paying the prevailing wage that they made financial sacrifices in coming to P. W. A, which permits the prevailing wage on construction proj- ects, rather than seeking to qualify projects as relief work with the Gov- ernment bearing a larger percentage of the financial burden.” 3.000 Applications Received. Ickes announced simultaneously that 3,000 applications for new proj- ects, involving a total expenditure of $667.648.000, had been submitted to P. W. A. State directors and that 563, totaling $107,468,000, had been sent to Washington for final action. Six- teen States visited by Hackett's party, he added, have filed 1031 apptica- tions and “from two to four times as many more applications will be filed in the Western States within the next 8ix weeks. Ithough officials here insisted there would be no compromise with work- relief strikers in New York City, it was assumed that Hopkins and President Roosevelt were canvassing the situa- tion during their week end cruise on Chesapeake Bay. Officials predicted there would be little encouragement of the strike movement from State and city officials, because the burden of continuing the | dole would then be a local responsibil- | ity. Already local governments had agreed to put up $600,000,000 to help provide materials on Work Progress | Administration projects. and to pro-| vide for 4,000,000 destitute unemploy- ables, while a similar sum will be re- quired to match Federal donations on public works projects | Youth Committee Taken Over. 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"Mianto e " A N LOADS_ TO AND | thy United States. Also | ITH'S TRANSFER_AND Phone Above protesting wage cuts, are shown calling on Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson yesterday in New York. A subordinate said the de monstration had nothing to do with the W. P. A. strike. general was in Washington. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Several hundred W. P. A. workers, with placards demanding vacations and sick leave with pay and They found the Right: George Meany, president of the New York State Federation of Labor, who declared skilled workers cn W. P. A. projects at New York were striking to “up-hold wage standards that we have taken years to build.” He said the policies of trade unions in New York weren't being decided by “Gen. Johnson or Harry L. Hopkins in Washington.” trike (Continued From First Page.) they could in where he said they never were sure of a job But the union leaders replied that they were fighting more for the principle than the money involved. Asked what the strikers would do when their jobs were filled by other men, Meany replied, “Wait until it bappens.” The Strike Committee was planning to establish picket lines Monday. Whitr-Collar Group / = Support 1ér the union A was voiced by several white-collar as well as left-wing organizations. Two hun- dred white-collar demonstrators called at Gen. Johnson's office with a set of demands not directly related to the strike, but dispersed when they learned the general was out of town. Predictions voiced by labor leaders that the strike would spread to other cities were recalled when the Wor- cester (Mass.) Building Trades Coun- cil, with 13,000 members, indorsed a strike call on P. W. A.;W. P. A. proj- ects beginning September 1. American Federation of Labor ex- ecutives expressed divided sentiment on the dispute, with Vice President George L. Berry siding with Gen. Johnson, and J. W. Williams, head of the building trades department, blam- ing the strike on the “brain trust.” GREEN WILLING TO HELP. Believes, However, Intercession at White House Would Be Futile. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, August| 10 (). —William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, said tonight he stood ready to help | if | settle the New York relief strike, called upon by officers of the unions concerned He declined to disclose, what he might do. Intercession at the White House, he said, would be futile. “The President wouldn't change his mind now,” Green added. George Meany, president of the New York State federation, is to come here to confer with Green tomorrow night Joseph Ryan, president of New York's Central Trades and Labor Council, also is to attend Both Green and Ryan deplored the activity of allegedly Communist groups in theh W. P. A. walk-out. “The American Federation of Labor is not working with any outside groups,” Green said. 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But since this is no longer possible, the world powers are bound to side with Italy: otherwise their colonial empires will be men- aced. | TR | A marked change has occurred in| British public opinion. The majority of the newspapers find now all kind of excuses for Mussolini's action, and, | while agreeing that the attack on Ethiopia is not strictly in keeping with | the ideology of the League of Nations, { they discover strong reasons why Italy | should conquer that country. The | government is following slowly the trend of public opinion because it hears already ominous rumbles in the Far East, and especially in India. The chancellories of the big powers | | are now agreed that “Italy must win the war.” \ Mussolini is preparing carefully the campaign. He realizes the enormous ErnioP\N 2 | tive | servers, but everything that is humanly pos- sible is being done to overcome them. 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To be admitted to her reception is one of the great favors which everybody in Berlin—foreigner and German—is seeking with anxiety. | Some of Hitler's enemies say she | is not 100 per cent Aryan. But when this subject was mentioned to the Reichsfuehrer, he is said to have an- swered curtly: “It is I who decide who is a Jew and who is not.” Emmy Sonemann, Frau Goering since a few months ago, is a friend of Hitler's “film minister.” It is less difficult to be admitted to the recep- | tion of the wife of the second in command of Hitler. She inhabits with her husband a | princely palace in Berlin—probably the | most extravagantly appointed private | residence in Germany. Emmy is not | only pretty, but also charming and | extremely “political. Her salon is always full of members of the Reichs- wehr and high officials of the empire. | When people want something from Goering they try to enlist the sym- | pathy of his charming wife. 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A. projects as a diffi- culty for officials in charge of the program. Work-relief - officials are receiving many protests against thic rule which, |in some instances, threatens to force | the discharge of men who have worked | for contractors for years and who, in all probability, will fini themselves on | the relief rolls in a few months if they are forced out of their present jobs. An official here pointed out yester- | day, somewhat sardonically, that as soon as the discharged employes be- | came eligible for relief they could be re-employed by their present or former bosses. | | 90 Per cent Required. Under the regulations laid down by | | the President, 90 per cent. of all men | employed on projects financed out of | the fund must come from the relief rolls. In some instances, according to reports received here, contractors nre: using this as leverage to reduce wages had to be polished 6ff on June 30, 1934, were finally completed. Although because she has a longer political and social experience, her receptions are less important than those of her two rivals, she has been too long in the limelight and likes it too well. She is chiefly interested—officially— in the feminine questions and writes |a good deal about fashions, art and feminine education. Pie Sends 32 to Hospital. FORT KNOX, Ky.. August 10 (F).— | Thirty-two commissioned officers ol the 139th Field Artillery were in the post hospital today suffering from stomach ache. They suffered attacks of food poisoning after eating cream pie which had been left over from the day before and apparently became tainted. All were expected to be re- ileased by tomorrow. We Live sonally road-tested IT’S SO! When while others would like to keep their | skilled crews together, but are for- | bidden to do so by the general rule | As in the “strike” of union workmen | against acceptance of the security wage on works progress projects in New York, work-relief officials run | the risk of undermining the regula- | tions seriously if they begin to make | exceptions. Two sections of the program are | hit seriously by strict limitation of the benefits of the fund to persons in relief families. These are the C. C. C. and the National Youth program. Offi- cial circles admit privately that there is little prospect that the C. C. C. will | be able to achieve its projected enroll- | ment of 600,000 unless the rule is re- | laxed. They expect at the maximum an enrollment of 500,000 by the end of August. Until the C. C. 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