Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1935, Page 26

W.P. A. LABORERS REJECT PAY OFFER 1,500 Key West Workers Say Living Costs Bar New Scale. By the Associated Press. KEY WEST, Fla, December 4— Fiftesn hundred W. P. A. workers who quit their jobs in this PFederally- administered city refused last night to accept new wage scales offered by the New Deal agency. The strikers in mass meeting de- cided not to return to work today. Shortly after the men laid down their tools E. A. Pynchon, State W. P. A. administrator for district five, telegraphed authorization to in- crease working hours, and thereby wages, 25 per cent. Under the new scale proposed workers on W. P. A. projects would be employed five instead of four days weekly and receive $7.50 instead of $6.05. However, Louis Avila, chairman of the strikers’ committee, who presided over the mass meeting, said prices of commodities in Key West had in- creased 25 per cent since the Labor day hurricane wrecked railway facili- ties and deprived the city of rail freight service. He declared the strikers would have accepted the wage increase had not the extra day's work been asked, re- marking: “We would welcome an investigation of living conditions in Key West as compared with New York City, which was granted a special disposition in | the wage schedule.” { MICHIGAN WORKS RESUME. —_— | Delta County Projects to Operate on | 128 Hours’ Basis, By tho Associated Press. ESCANABA, Mich., December 4.— W. P. A projects in Delta County were reopened today with work sched- ules reduced from 140 to 128 hours & month. The shortened work month becomes effective tomorrow. The decision to resume operations on the Government projects was reached Tuesday night when spokes- men for the strikers promised that men returning to their jobs would not be molested. The reduction in hours will be effec- tive throughout the Upper Peninsula, Joseph Pyral, district W. P. A. labor manager, announced. He added that counties with a lower wage rate than $44, now prevailing in Delta, will be raised to that level The strikers originally asked for an 88-hour month and a 10 per cent in- crease in wages. The walkout made 1,400 men idle. $50,000 LEFT BY SUNDAY Evangelist's Widow Given Estate Built in 39 Years’ Campaign. CHICAGO, December 4 () .—Rev. William A. (Billy) Sunday built an estate of approximately $50,000 in his | 39 years of evangelism, it was disclosed | yesterdsy, when his will was filed for probate here. He left all to his widow, Mrs. Helen A. Sunday, who was appointed ex- ecutrix. A codicil provided that in the event of Mrs. Sunday's death be- fore her husband, the estate was to go to their sons, Paul and Williams, jr., Los Angeles. The famed advocate of the “sawdust trail” died of a heart attack while visiting here November 6. He was 73. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER %, 1935. 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