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For Relea cl e b Morni ng Paners Wednesday , March 13, 1940~ RAPID EM?LOYMEHT TUftNOVZ.R. SECWN BY WPA Th e r ap i d rate of t urnover on t he WPA r olls i s illus trated by a r epo rt mad.e public t oday by Co l onel F . C. Harrington , Commiss i 0ner of W0rk Pro jects , vrhich discloses t hat only 2. 2 pe rcent of tl1e WFA projec t workers in Jan'J.a ry had been err9l 0yed cnntinuously for a y ear and a half . A repo rt on assi gnments and separat i ons shows t hat 48 , 000 pers ons were dismi ssed in January because of 18 montl;l.s 1 continuous em;:,loyment , as r equi red. by the Vf?A App r op riati on Act , in compari son with an average enr ollment of 2 , 21 6, 000 i n January . The 18- month di sm is sal s in January re:present one- seventh of the 311 , 500 persons who were assi gned t o W?A p r o jects in July , 1 938 , ei ghteen months , rior t o January , 1940 . The others left volun tarily or were di s- missed at some time during the peri od . In January , t he report shows , 206 , 000 ~e rs ons left the rolls while 320,000 we r e be ing added. Of t he separ&ti cns , 76 , 000 were voluntary , and most are assume d to have left t o take :p rivate emp l oyment . In acldi t i on to th e 48 , 000 who were dismissed under t he 18 month p r ovi s i on , 82, 000 were di schar 6 ed. or laid off . Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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