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Show SPENDING PROVIDES JOBS FOR MILLIONS they pointed out that the Increased pay rolls provide funds for such purchases as clothing and household need3 from industries ?ntlrel unrelated unre-lated to the project for which the original allotment was made. Again, they show that most of the funds allotted for Irrigation projects In the Southwest, will be spent elsewhere. Electrical equipment equip-ment will come from Schenectady and cement from the fields of eastern east-ern Pennsylvania. Naval experts say that most of the $2S,0X,000 allotted for new ship construction by the administration will be spent "inland'' for materials giving secondary employment to thousands. The public works officials have made every effort to distribute the funds In such a manner as to give every section the same measure of relief and allotments have been made for projects all the way from the Virgin Islands to the Philippines Philip-pines and from Alaska to the Gulf. Employment Furnished by Federal Public Works. Washington. Millons of men of all classes, representing virtually every line of Industry In every nook and corner of the United States, will be rescued from the slough of unemployment un-employment by public works administration admin-istration funds this winter. This fact presented itself when Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the Interior In-terior and head of the administration, administra-tion, annouLced that some S2.0O0,-000.000 S2.0O0,-000.000 already had been allotted to fight the war on the bread lines. It Is estimated by Department of Labor experts thai this money distributed dis-tributed throughout the land will provide 8.220.000 men raonth3 of employment In addition to at least twice as much Indirect or secondary employment Reach Peak Next Spring. Furthermore, It was announced at the administration that the volume vol-ume of work provided will Increase steadily until a peak Is reached some time next spring, although winter weather will retard the program pro-gram somewhat With weather conditions In mind the administration took action on allotments al-lotments for road construction work in the far northern states first, so that something could be accomplished accom-plished there before winter. An Interesting fact In connection with the allotments, It was pointed out. Is that the secondary work the gathering and processing of materials ma-terials starts as soon as the allot-lent allot-lent Is made and quite some time before direct work on the project site Is started. At the same time It was shown that only the smaller portion of the sum allotted to a project Is spent at the project site proper. The greater part Is distributed to Industries Indus-tries far and wide or to what the administration knows as "capital goods producers." As an example, there Is taken an allotment for a bridge in New York state. As soon as the allotment is made, contracts for materials are signed and the producers of "capital "cap-ital goods" prepare for an Increased output. Orders Spread Out. Steel Is ordered from Pittsburgh and movements of ore from the mines of Minnesota figuratively speaking starts. That necessitates necessi-tates some Increase In shipping on the Great Lakes, and after the ore Is processed and the steel fabricated, fabri-cated, railroad men are assigned the task of hauling It to New York. In an Instance of that kind, administration officials said, the amount of secondary employment affected could never be traced. The Increased steel output calls for more coal and countless other materials essential to the processing. Going deeper Into the situation. |