The New York herald., 1921-09-24
buying WEEK MOVE
TO Be NATIONWIDE
Garment Retailers AssOcia-
tiOn Indorses Plan of
Franklin Simon.
MAY EXTEND SCOPE
Period for Wholesale Pur.
chasing Suggested to
Benefit Merchants.
SONG FESTIVAL ARRANGED
Ledoux to Direct Supreme
COncordiat' of Work for the
JoblesS Tomorrow.

The movement proposed by Frank
I'm Simon to relieve the present de-
preston and put an end to wide
spread unemployment by means of q
buyers Week." which would get
merchandise into rapid circulation,
thereby opening the way for a re-
sumption of production. gathered mo-
mentum yesterday and seemed likely
to become nationwide in scope.
The plan for a week of concentrated
buying, with merchants offering spe-
cial bargains, statesmen attending to
their jobs intensively, and the general
public spending some money which
really ought to be moving around the
country, was approved most heartily
by the board OF directors of the Ma
tional Garment Retailers Association
at a meeting in the Waldorf-Astoria.
Mr.. Simon is president of the or
eanization. The adoption of the plan
by that body made certain that the
movement will spread, for members OF
big city in the Union.
Actually. as Mr.. Simon pointed out.
there would have to be two buyers
weeks. one for the benefit OF the whole-
sale merchants and the other. several
weeks later for the retailers. Two such
weeks, II successful. would mean that
factory wheels would begin to turn as
the dam OF accumulated and unsold
merchandise was removed. The retail!
week should come, Mr.. Simon believes
in the first or second week Of Novem-
ber before the holiday rush.
Work for all is the only real solution
of the unemployment situation. mer-
chants declared yesterday, and the only
way to relieve unemployment is to start
q widespread demand for goods. To
make a buyers week success would
require not only the buying support of
the public, but some real sacrifices or
the part of merchants and lot of hard
work by sales and other Industrial
forces. Moreover, the effect OF such Il
week would be great only If It We're
carried out on large scale an1
throughout the country. At the meet
ing of the directors of the National
Garment Retailers Association the fol-
lowing resolution was passed:
Whereas, 1t Is well recognized that
unemployment in this country has
become a problem demanding solu-
ton: and
Whereas. 1t appears to the direc-
tors OF the National Garment Re-
tailers' Association that the plan
known as Buyers Week." proposed
by our president. Franklin Simon,
at a melting of trade representatives
in this city. can do much to relieve
this condition by stimulating produce
tion through increased consumption;
therefore be it
Resolved, that the board Of dlrec-
tors of the Ntional Garment Re-
tailers' Association go on record as
intellectually indorsing the plan
for Buyers Week on a national
basis and be it further
Resolved. That the individual
members of this association be urged
TO do everything in their power to
extend the operation Of this move
ment to the cities In which they are
represented.
Urban J. Ledoux yesterd-.y arranged
for what he called the supreme con-
cordiat" of his work among the un-
employed In this city before leaving
for Buffalo. where he will stir up the
public conscience to the necessity of
helping the down and cutters.
The "concordiat' is to be song
employed. which 10000 other persons
are expected to attend, in Central Park
at s r. M. tomorrow. Harry Barn.
hart. director Of the New York Com
munity Chorus. obtained permission for
the concert from Park Commissioner
Gallatin and will lead the singing. Mr..
Ledoux will make the only address.
Bryant Park seethed again with the
hungry, crowding and pushing in bread
lines at noon. Morris NJ. Littman. a
clothing merchant OF AZ West Forty
second street. who gave out 500 sand
wiches Thursday, reappeared and the
lines quickly formed. The park rail-
ings were hedged with shoppers look
ing on.
'Everything Is going WELL" said Mr.
Ledoux. ORGANIZATIONS are getting
their machinery under way and the
public conscience Is thoroughly awak-
ened."
Bird s. Coler. Commissioner Of Pub
lie Welfare, suspended the regulations
as to the length of time dodgers may
remain in the city lodging house, and
announced that quarters for the un-
employed would be made available in
the Municipal Building IL necessary
Every health precautlon will be OBJ
served with assistance from the Health
Department.
Some well qualified men appeared
among the $50 who registered for work
at the Municipa! Industrial Aid Bureau.
Worth and Centre streets. One was
an advertising man who used to make
500 a week. and another applicant said
he had been employed before tho war
by a corporation which paid him $500
a year.