Show number er of workers on original OWA projects T A face abee lo 10 losa af wages A number if of persons who aho were employed on the first projects of the in uintah county through being unable to get on tha OWA payrolls lace face loss of the ti time me they worked prior to december according to records this will amount to approximately 1100 0 C graves aves of maeser and two oz cir sol la arvil ar 1 lewis and parker who had worked or led on an the ma lafser str project afore J ct to december 11 before LIM ilie uintah county commis con mis F aa their last meeting for aid in aring scaring ing compensation for the time the had worked each bey y had h ad worl ogled ed nine days from NoN november embr the AVA committee hotl refused make pigment became they claimed they had not been authorized to pay for work in excess of the county allocation I 1 prior to december LW the un iun i missioners ners who hr hp i A put them th men to work claimed that they had received instructions from the department ui in salt lake city to start art the projects in the county comity as soon as possible tind and forget about the red tape that this would mould be taken care of afterward E J young ra duke and H M snyder members of the vintah i county GWA committee met with the commissioners Ji the payment of men empI employed oyed on the i projects in excess of the county allotment prior to decemver Dece Decer 14 mr duke bald that he ree received elved word that if there were more men at work on GWA projects la the county eharb allocated that county would have to pay the extra men for some reason or other tho the additional men were not released until about nine days after th county received its allocation according to a letter written by mr young to J it ir rayburn under date of D december cember 15 it Is stated uintah county was orgin originally ally allocated men for GWA work and men voie placed on an projects throughout the county in accordance with the order I 1 on november 30 and december I 1 I 1 sent general tune time keepers to the various projects on which had aad been commenced throughout th ih counts and after collecting the tine and making up tip assignment cards found that the county had 33 more men at work A ork than they were entitled to for pay from funds and in addition to this number there were 12 men at work on another project at independence that the tune time keeper did not locate makin all 45 men at work over their allocation and of course in making up the pay payrolls tolls this number of men were not paid I 1 the following week the time for these men was taken but none of them paid or taken into consideration in making the assignment of additional 32 men allowed the county december ath for the reason that the payment of men on this project would have shown that the same was commenced after december therefore the time of erf these men together with that of the other men not taken onto the payrolls was turned to the ohp county commissioners commissio neis for payment in answer to mr mi youngs letter J N rayburn assistant GWA administrator mint for utah says we are passing and approving the project no 19 grading of independence road map attached in the amount of item I 1 labor not nob to exceed 2354 2394 we will approve for payment the currena curren fl payroll on this project to cover the period from december 15 to december 21 or cie 01 e week the complis completion tion date on tte tre pra project Is amended accord acc ord angly there mere Is xio rio way that a project payroll can be made retroactive it is 18 unfortunate that this discrepancy occurred and the payment of the payroll prior to december 15 is one that must be ba handled by your committe commit com mitt tM the county commissioner m or some other political subdivision am the payroll i lanying your letter Is returned herewith in the meeting with the county mr duke said california had a situation and were suing suin the for amount due mr duke made a trip to salt lake purposely to take the matter matler up with the state committee but wen refused any consideration commissioner W L johnson wd sold the county did not have the money to pay tte tle tl e amount and did not fed like pacing pa ing it it if they did have the funds according to mr young uintah county was allocated men tor for the first GWA projects this number included 45 men al to demaa the county put 45 more men to work than these men worked ob albut out two weeks this number included the foremen before they were put on the regular payroll mr young is of the Op opinion Lillon that the will not pay for these additional men and that the county will have to pay the account accorn t |