Show WORKERS building UN home hom e huge hug m task the 65 million dollar job ot of constructing ting the united nations world capital along the east river in new york city will benefit more than workers during the next three years headquarters planning officials have predicted chief architects of the future skyscraper city of glass and marble estimated that a total of persons eventually would be employed in construction and other direct work upon the actual site an additional workers are expected to contribute indirectly in production of materials and in other outside labor labor expense will vill account tor for 42 million of the total 65 million dollar construction cost currently the more than 50 administrative architectural and engineering gi members of the headquarters planning staff are more or less marking time while they wait from day to day for or some word on how the skyscraper project is to be financed A sledgehammer sledge hammer detail of 0 workers already has demolished about 40 per cent of the old slaughter houses and garages now occupying the area but no large scale construction st can begin until the general assembly gives the go ahead signal and that signal will not be forthcoming until a financing program almost certainly to be based on a big united states loan has been arranged in the meantime considerable work is being done on refinement ol of detailed designs improvement of a master system for circulating people and vehicular traffic through the international zone and on preliminary pre liml surveys regarding reg arding interior design and furnishings officials say U N may decide to follow the example set by the league of nations and accept furnishings nish ings from each member country each nation contributing a product for which it is famous like rugs from persia and tapestries from belgium |