The Washington herald., 1921-09-29
COMMITTEE URGES
FEDERAL AGENCIES
TO help FIND JOBS
Public Works Favored as
Desirable Means to
Aid Unemployed.

Every city in the country must
open an unemployment agency at
once and find jobs for the idle men
in each locality before winter comes.
This will be one of the principal
recommendations of the National
Unemployment Conference to meet
the present emergency. An appeal
to all governors and mayors for
such action has been decided upon
by the conference committee on
emergency measures.
The plan is to revive the Federal
employment service with an emer-
gency Appropriation from Congress
and coordinate all the municipal
agencies into one nationwide EN-
ployment service.
Must Divide Up jobs.
Another emergency measure de-
cided upon by a committee of the
conference is that men who have
work must share employment with
those who have none. Such a recon-
mendation has been unanimously
approved by the committee on
emergency measures by manufactur-
ers, and il is significant that Sam
uel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor. is
a member of this committee.
Under this plan, a manufacturer
who employs 2.o0o men full time.
will be urged to give employment
TO another 1.ooo by allowing all OF
them to work part time. In this
manner. Everybody can eat" as
one high official expressed il. and
IL is considered imperative that such
action he taken to prevent suffer-
ing during the winter.
To Aid Railroad Work.
II is considered certain the con-
ference will be asked to recomme nd
to Congress the prompt passage of
the railroad refunding bill, against
which strong opposition is develop
ing.
Efforts may be made by the ad-
ministration to obtain an agreement
with railroad executives that the
bulk of the $500, 900, goo to be paid
them under the bill for claims they
have against the government be
spent for new equipment OF i'm
provements.
This. according to some SENT
Official estimates. would provide
work for from 100000 to 100000
men now idle. and greatly stimu-
late the entire industrial situation.
Public Works Urged.
The committee on public works
yesterday adopted a recommends
tion for the immediate construction
OF all national, State and munich
pal building projects for which ap-
propriations have been made.
Mayor Peters Of Boston. the COM
mittee chairman, announced that
the recommendation will be made
the major proposal of a formal re-
port to the full conference today.
According to Mayor Peters. sta
tistics gathered by his committee
disclose that $500. 100000 is avail
able for these projects. exclusive of
appropriations for national con-
struction which would add ap-
proximately s200.0oo.o0o to the
total. In the opinion of the COM
mittee. he said. If the expenditure
OF this sum can be begun at once,
II will give employment to thou
sands and erect a revival in the
building industry.
VIII Hear Reports Tomorrow.
Because of the rapid progress
made by the committees that are
formulating emergency relief meas
ures for the various lines of in
dustry. IT was announced yesterday
that the full conference will con-
vene tomorrow to pass upon their
reports. The original date for re-
ceiving the reports was fixed rs
October S, and the five-day ad-
vance in the schedule was taken
as an indication that the confer
ence may wind up its work late
next week