Show new regulations effective wed morning mornings Morn the new regulations included in the new relief bill passed late june 30 and effecting the working hours hourly wage scales anti and monthly earnings of A all W P A workers in the nation went into effect wednesday morning on all work projects the new regulations were written in the bill primarily for the purpose of equalizing the wage scale in different parts of the country and to make these jobs less attractive to those men on the rolls who might be encouraged to seek more remunerative munera tive private employment the new regulations raise the working hours each month for all classes of workers from 80 as it has been in the past to from now on with no increase in pay for the entire period hourly wage rates were therefore lowered from to for unskilled labor laboi with possible earline ear nine of a f month semiskilled semi skilled laborers will receive per hour or a month and skilled laborers will receive an hour or s z month heretofore men belonging in these last two groups have worked 69 hours at per holit and 61 hours at per hour re ively only one man in this city has been receiving the skilled jabor wage and four the sem semiskilled I 1 labor wage with the rest resl coining in the unskilled group the working periods are als aasc divided under the new regulations with each worker putting ir 65 hours in the first half of the month and 65 in the last halt these 65 hour periods are again divided into 10 days of houn each which makes it mandatory jur fur each worker who is on to work 0 20 O six and one half hour houi days each month for a daily wage of another provision of the new bill provides that all sponsoring units provide a flat 25 per cent ot of the cost of the project asked for in the past the sponsoring units lave have been required to furnish th the project supervisor all materials material I 1 and any machinery which the project may call for in most instances this has run much less than the contemplated 25 per cent but one or two projects sponsored locally have run considerably over that yesterdays papers carried stories of strikes in many of the large eastern centers with thousands of workers refusing to work that long for that amount of money leaders in those sections were of the opinion that those men who could possibly do better would quit and those who would return to the work projects by the end of the week so far as we are able to learn local workers are accepting the new rules with little comment |