Show WORK ORK IS STOPPED ON RAILWAY LINES CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM HELD UP BY LACK OF MONEY IS EXPLANATION Suspension Applies to New St Stations Under Way and Planned Roadbed Improvements s and Construction of Bridges and Buildings Washington Instructions Instructions Issued on March 19 by the railroad administration tion will result In the temporary suspension suspension suspension sus sus- pension or postponement of millions of dollars of oC railroad Improvement work because of the financial pre predicament predicament ic ment caused by failure of congress to pass appropriations for the administrations administration's administrations administration's adminis revolving fund The sus sus- suspension suspension pension of work applies to many new nety stations un under er erection or planned spur tracks road bed Improvements elevated tracks and anti construction ot of bridges and buildings Railroad administration officials I said comparatively few men would be I thrown out of work as a result of the orders but admitted that the railroad Improvement program planned for this year partly as a n means of employing ing large numbers of oC laborers during the time readjustment period probably would not bo be carried out The program called called call caU- ed for th the expenditure of more than thann thana Q n half billion dollars for additions ions ana betterments alone |