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Show Civil Works Administration CeasesTo Be After March 31 Personnel Setup Appears To Continue Con-tinue Under Works Division of Federal Relief Administration L. G. Clay, C. W. A. committeeman from Milford, attended a long night session of the committee at Beaver Tuesday night at which time Joseph H. Rayburn of Salt Lake explained to the committee the objects of the new works division of the Emergency recovery administration which succeeds suc-ceeds the C. W. A. setup as the latter passes out of existence March 31. The committee is composed of F. E. Harris of Beaver, chairman; EVA. Griffiths, Beaver; Cyrus Bradfield, Minersville; and L. G. Clay, Milford. The following material is taken from a bulletin issued by the Washington Wash-ington office of the Federal Civil Works administration and will be followed next week by matter pertaining per-taining more to the rural areas, where civil works and direct relief programs will be replaced April 1 by a program of rehabilitation. Effective March 31, 1934, the Civil Works admjinstration will be suspended sus-pended and work divisions will be arganized by the Emergency Relief administration. Until the suspension of the civil works, reductions in number num-ber of employees will be made in accordance ac-cordance with the telegraphic instructions in-structions given February 28, 1934. All desirable local and state civil works projects in operation on the date of the suspension of civil works may bo transferred to the work divisions divi-sions of the Emergency Relief administrations. ad-ministrations. All federal projects ami emergency educational projects are exempt from this order and separate instructions will he .given concerning them. " All Civil Works accounts, project records and all other records will be completed to the date of suspension and closed out in full detail, and all required records and reports must be completed and transmitted to Washington. Persons employed on civil works on the date of suspension may be transferred to the work divisions of the Emergency Relief administrations. administra-tions. Essential administrative and technical personnel may be transferred trans-ferred from Civil Works administrations administra-tions to the work divisions of the Emergency Relief administrations. The new program of work will be carried forward in towns and cities having a population of more than r,000 and in counties or other political politi-cal subdivisions which are determined determin-ed by the State Emergency Relief administrations to be predominantly urban or industrial. This determination determi-nation will be submitted to the Federal Fed-eral Emergency Relief administrator administra-tor at once for review and approval. Reductions in civil works employment employ-ment prior to March 31 will be determined, de-termined, first, by laying off employees em-ployees in whose families more than one person is gainfully employed; second, by laying off persons who have other resources. All such persons per-sons shall be dropped in compliance with the reductions in quotas ordered by the telegraphic instructions of February 28, 1934. Any additional person employed will be selected on a basis of need by the Emergency Relief administra- . (Continued on last page) C.W. A. Ceases To Be (Continued from first page) tions. Needy women shall receive equal consideration with needy men. It will be the policy of the Federal Emergency Relief administration to include in its monthly grants of funds to the states funds for the prosecu tion of the Work program, and these grants shall be used to provide employment em-ployment only for persons in need of relief. The work division shall be responsible respon-sible for the planning, organization and conduct of work for those certified certi-fied to the division as eligible for relief. re-lief. No separate grants will be made for material purchases. |