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Show WPA ROLLS TO BE CUT DOWN WASHINGTON, April 21 U.P The New Deal today planned a WPA program for the 1938 fiscal year employing nearly half a million mil-lion fewer relief workers than were on the work-relief rolls during dur-ing this fiscal year r.cl;r.tT June 30. On the basis of $1,500,000,000 for work relief during the year beginning be-ginning July 1, proposed by President Presi-dent Roosevelt in his new budget message, the Works Progress Administrator Ad-ministrator can provide employment employ-ment for about 1,800,000 persons, at present wage rates, if too great an amount is not diverted for other, relief .purposes. More than 2,100,000 arc now on WPA rolls. An average of 1,800,000 on the rolls July 1- is approximately the employment figure which WPA officials expect to reach through return to private employment by that date. Administrator Harry L. Hopkins had planned to cut to 1,-600,000 1,-600,000 by July 1, if industry picked pick-ed up sufficiently, but flood relief interfered. |