New-York tribune., 1921-09-29
Plan for Relief
OF Idle Drafted
BY Conferees
Manufacturers Committee
Calls Council Meeting at
Once to Take Action
ON Emergency Measures
Other Boards to Report
ALI Work Ahead of Seized.
ule; Ledoux Denounces
Municipal Lodging Plan

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From the Tvibume's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.-The out
standing development of to-day's ses-
sion of the National Unemployment
Conference was the decision reached by
the Committee on Emergency Relief
Measures by Manufacturers to convene
the general conference on Friday in
stead of waiting until October 5.
The committees decision to act at
once in submitting its recommenda-
tions for relief measures was deter
mined upon after & brief debate in
which unanimous agreement to the
emergency relief measures was ex-
pressed. The progress made by the
committee has made it possible to call
the general meeting five days sooner
than expected.
On Friday also the Committees on
Unemployment Statistics, Employment
Agencies and Registration. Emergency
Public Work and Construction will sub
nit their recommendations.
COmIniCteeS speed Up Work
1t was evident to-day in a survey OF
the conference that in the committee
meetings and at the public hearings
little time is being lost in getting at
the bottom of the unemployment situa-
ton and devising prompt methods of
remedying it. Mayor Andrew J. Peters,
Of Boston, chairman of the Committee
on Emergency Public Work, said his
committee is prepared to recommend
national drive for the construction
and completion Of Federal, state and
municipal public works and the. con-
sequent employment of great numbers
Of men.
a proposition to reduce prices gen.
orally III an effort to break what mem
bers referred to as the buyers
strike" resulted in considerable dis
cussion among the members of the
manufacturers committee The more
daring mem bers on the comittec pro-
posed course of action whereby the
prices on all articles should be heavily
slashed by the manufacturer and in
turn by the retailer with the result
that by one move the confidence of the
buying public would be restored and
normalcy return. 1t is understood that
a, recommendation embodying such a
plan is to be submitted TO the COM
mittee, though nothing of a definite
nature in this respect was accom-
plished to-day.
The transportation committee will
bring in a report advocating the pas
sage Of Federal refunding legislation
for the railroads. The committee be-
lieves that such measures will provide
funds whereby the railroads may ex-
pend money in repairing and adding to
their equipment and thereby provide
employment for thousands of workers.
Seasonal Coal Rates Sought
The mining committee is planning to
recommend that the Interstate Com
merce Commission be permitted to
make seasonal rates. One of the main
causes OF disturbances in the coal min
ing industry in the past has been the
difficulty of transportation after Ger
tain seasons of the year. In many
cases it has been found wellnigh i'm
possible to transport COAL with the
result that thousands of miners have
been laid off,
The Shipping Committee found that
it could recommend little in the way of
emergency measure at this time except
the consolidation of all government de-
partments having to do with shipping.
Several new members have been added
to the committee, including P. A. S.
l.
tile Marine; r. H. M. Robinson, Will
liam S. Brown, of the Marine Engi-
neers, and H. H. Raymond, president
of the Clyde Mallory Line.
The Committee on Employment Agen-
cies, of which Bird S. Coler is chair
man, is to recommend that the country
generally adopt the scheme of agen-
cies as effective in New York City. The
committee, after survey Of agencies
in numerous cities, believes that the
system in vogue in New York is the
best.
The Manufacturers Committee was
minus the services to-day Of Charles
M. Schwab, who was forced to leave
here in order to keep a business en-
gagernent. Mr.. Schwab plans to return
soon.
The morning session was enlivened
by another encounter between Urhain
Ledoux, "Mr. Zero" and Samuel Com
pers, leader of the American Fedora
tion of Labor. This time Mr.. Gompers
and "Mr. Zero shook hands in most
amicable manner and told each other
that they respected each others opin-
ions. Mr.. Ledoux has been very much
in evidence since the conference
opened. He has sold number of
books on sociology and social service
to members of the conference which
has given rise to the report that he
would make q clever book agent.
Roswell F. Phelps, director of statis-
tics for the Department of Labor in
Massachusetts, in answer to interro-
cations regarding the capacity Of
private employment agencies to handle
present employment problems, called
attention to the desirability of central
registration. with a possibility OF Civ
ing preference to the needy and the
veterans, which cannot be done through
number of independent agencies.