The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-09-30
UNEMPLOYMENT CAUSE
FOR GREAT COUNCIL
Experts Gather To Devise
Ways And Means To
Assist Idle Labor.

washington, sept. 20. - A tar-
reaching plan of cooperation among
employrs and with Governmental con-
struction agencies to regulate, dis
tribute and increase the volume OF
employment in slack seasons is the
solution of the unemployment prob
lem contemplated by leaders in the
conference of economists and captains
of industry and labor opned by Presi-
dent Warren G. Harding today. The
session adjourned to October 5. at
which time the ten subcommittee
will present suggestions for emergen-
cy relief. ~s~E
Various plans will be considered by
the conference, among them the es-
adjustment of staggered hours" in
factories, whereby the same output
would be achieved by an increased
number of employees working fewer
number of hours each.
In this way the available volume of
employment would be distributed ev-
enly, every employee bearing his share
of the reduced demand for labor in
stead of some mploys continuing to
work full time while others remain
! idle.
Both Mr.. Harding and Secretary of
Commerce Herbert Hoover in ad-
| dressing the conference emphasized
the opposition of the Administration
to any plan of relief which contem-
Plates a further drain on the public
treasury.
The broad phases of the problem
as outlined by Mr.. Hoover for the
consideration of the conference in
cluded the following:
A determination of the volume and
distribution OF employment.
Emergency measures to provide
employment and mitigate suffering
that may arise during the coming
winter.
Measures which may aid in restor-
ing commerce and employment to
normal. .lr'.,- '''-'-' ~ "
Harry s. Robinson chairman of the
Organization Committee, in anounc-
ing the appointment of the subcom-
mittees at a session late in the day
said it was desired they should re-
port to the general conference not
later than Wednesday. October 5.
Under this programme it is expect
ed the entire sessions of the confer
ence will not. continue much longer
than two weeks.
Opening the initial session, Mr..
Harding declared the present indus,
trial depression was war inheri-
lance throughout the world" adding
that the results hoped for from the
conference might extend beyond the
borders of the United States.
Asserting there ought to be work
in this country for everyone, the
President described the United States
as fundamentally sound, financially
strong industrially unim paired, COM
mercially consistent and politically
unafraid," both the President and
Mr.. Hoover. emphasized the need for
an employment programme which
would not contemplate a drain on the
national treasury.
Mr.. Hoover Outlines Plan.
Outlining the questions before the
conference, Mr.. Hoover declared mo
problem can be approached adequate
ly for solution without a knowledge
of the facts" There was needed, he
said, first "a determination of the
volume and distribution of unemploy-
ment," then, "a determination OF
what emergency measures should be
taken to provide employment" and "a
consideration and a statement of what
measures must be taken to resore our
commerce and employment to normal,
or to put it another way what OBJ
stacles need to be removed to pro-
mote business recovery-the only real
lasting remedy for unemployment is
employment"
After the emergency measures and
the collection of statistics are COM
pleted, the conference is to be re-
grouped into committees whose func-
tions will be to recommend perma-
nent measures by which unemploy-
ment may be held to a minimum.
1.-THE initial efforts Of the con-
ference" It was announced, are be-
ing directed to meeting the emergen-
cy needs of the unemployment situa-
tion. simultaneously with this, an
exhaustive study will be made in or
der to bring out the exact facts<con-
corning unemployment.