A prominent contractor and 18 laborers have been discharged by a complaint committee investigating operation of the CWA in Scioto-co.

The committee announced that the contractor, J.L. Robinson, had been working as a foreman on a CWA project in the mornings and on a private contract in the afternoons.

The laborers had spent their money for liquor and were arrested for drunkenness.

Other complaints charged that another contractor employed by the CWA worked on a priavte contract at night, that a grocery store owner and his two sons had CWA jobs and that Mayor Robert G. Bryant of Portsmouth was employed as assistant county relief director.