Show VETS' VETS PRIORITY PLAGUES AGUES P W P PV A T V WASHINGTON Feb 15 UP- UP Startled by a legal blow threaten threaten- ing ng to scramble its work relief policy the now d deal al laid aid its plans today to fight the issue up to the tho supreme court if it nc es II sary No sooner had Federal J Judge Judg II r George corge W. W Welsh ruled in Phila- Phila delphia yesterday that war veterans veterans' and their dependents mus must bo be given preference on work relief jobs even it if f that means dismissal of or 0 J erans now working adI administration officials went into hurried confer confer- ence v They announced last night that they hey would carry an immediate ap ap peal ical to the circuit cour court of appeals appeals- If f Judge Welsh refuses to stay e ex- ex ex of his injunction This injunction in- in injunction in junction prohibits works progress administration from employing OB or 01 paying anyone in the Philadelphia area unless veterans their wives wives' and widows are given preference w u I If Judge Welshs Welsh's ruling should become generally accented accepted by courts throughout through ut the country it it would mean th the demolition of oC a keystone in the new deal relief policy f The administration insists that in general only persons from th the tho relief rolls shall bo be given V P A work in the drive which was designed to abolish tho the dole for needy and substitute work The contention behind this is that the neediest cases are arc on the relief relIct rolls although critics of the policy have complained that it excluded distressed persons who had bad managed managed man man- aged to keep off oct relief relic Benjamin J J. J Spang crippled war var veteran who was denied a job on ona ona a WI V P A business census project project- because he had not been on the tho dole obtained the injunction in Philadelphia and is Js fighting In District District Dis Dis- of ot Columbia supreme court cO to have it applied nationally I |