The Washington herald., 1921-09-20
Distinguished Leaders
Asked to Meet Here
Next Monday.
TWENTY EXPERTS
WILL GIVE ADVICE
Improved Conditions in
Some Industries Noted
During August.

/ teroay the names OF thirty-eight
members OF the conference which.
| with an advisory committee or
twenty experts. will meet here next
Monday to devise measures for re-
lieving the present STRESS OF uhem-
ployment and business depression.
The President hopes that the con
ference will be able TO ameliorats
existing conditions and avert suffeI-
ings OF an army of jobIess the com
! ing winter, and TO recommend poll
cies to prevent the periodical recur-
renee OF widespread unemployment
Secretary OF Commerce Hoover
will be chairman of the conference
which is a distinguished aggrega-
tion OF representative Americans.
including captains Of industry, ma
tional labor leaders and economic
authorities
To Help Business Is Ais-
The Presidents invitations to the
conference state that the confer
ence Is called to inquire into the
volume and distribution of unen-
ployment. to advise upon emergency
measures that can be properly taken
by employers. local authorities and
civic bodies and to consider such
measures as would tend to give i'm
pulse to the recovery OF business
and commerce to normal"
The conference is expected to dis
solve into special committees for
the formulation of definite plans for
submission to the conference as a
whole. These committees will seek
cooperation from further repre-
sentatives of labor. employers and
civic bodies in formulation of their
views
Davis Aids In Plans
Secretary of Labor Davis has been
directing a renewed survey Of un-
employment in preparation for the
conference. and cooperating in
formulating the plans for It.
Improved conditions in number
of industries are indicated in the
monthly reports Of the Bureau o.
Labor Statistics relative 20 volume
OF employment during August The
| figures made public yesterday show
that in nine groups, of industry
there were increases in the number
of persons on the payroll in August
as compared with July, and in hNe
decrease. eleven OF the fourteen
industries showed increases in the
amount OF money pdlu " tnARANs
and three decreases.
The largest percentage OF IN
creases in the number employed
in August, as compared with July.
are SIS per cent in hosiery and un-
Ierwear manufacturing establish
ments, 5.3 per cent IN mems ready
made clothing. 40 per cent In
iron and steel. and as per cent IN
boots and shoes. A decrease ~
So per cent took place in the aut"-
mobile industry and 1.6 per cent
in bituminous coal mining.
Aeceptanees Are Announced.
The most important increase in
the amount Of money paid en-
ployes are 15.4 per cent in iron
and steel. l2.7 per cent in mems
ready made clothing l2.5 per cent
in hosiery and underwear, and ll9
per cent in bituminous coal MIN
ing. There was a decrease OF 50
per cent in the amount Of money
paid employees in the automobile
industry, 20 per cent in cotton
manufacturing, and 1.3 per cent in
the wooden industry.
The acceptances OF the Presi-
dents invitation are given below.
A number Of replies have not vt
been received and further names
Of those accepting will be ar
nounced later.
Secretary Of Commerce Hoover.
Secretary Of Labor Davis.
,winslow 3. Aver. OF Portland.
Greg. president Eastern and West
ern Lumber Company. former mem
Der commission on minimum wages
and industrial conditions in orer7n
Federal food administrator =
Oregon in 1917.
Julius II. Barnes. OF Duluth.
Mimi. president United States
Food Administration Grain Corpo-
ration 1917 TO 1919: United States
wheat director: chairman Institute
for Public Service. New York.
William NJ. Butler. OF Boston.
manufacturer, president Butler
Mills. New Bedford Cotton Mills.
Hoosac Cotton Mills.
Head OF Railroad Union.
W. s. Carter. Of Cleveland presi-
dent Of the brotherhood Of Loco
motive Firemen and EnEinemer.
Elizabeth Christman, Of ChicaEo.
secretary of the International
Glove workers Union, secretary
treasurer OF the National Women's
TRADE Union League
Edgar z. Clark. former president
Order Of Railway Conductors. mem
Der Roosevelt Anthracite Comn'is
sion in 1902. formerly chairman
Interstate Commerce Commission.
John T Connery, Of Chicago
president Miami Coal Company.
Mayor James couzens, Of De
troit, president Detroit Board of
Commerce. vice president Ford Mo-
tor Company, mayor since 1919.
Joseph II. DeFrees. Of Chicago.
president Chamber OF Commerce OF
the United States.
T. Z. Edgerton Of Nashville.
Tenn, president Lebanon wooler
Mills. fuel administrator OF Tennss
see. chairman war resources com
mittee for Tennessee and united
war work campaign, president Ma
tional Manufacturers Association.
Pittsburgh Coal Magnste.
w. X. Field. OF Pittsburgh, pres
ident Of the Pittsburgh Coal Com h.
pany; represented the Western
Pennsylvania coal operators IN
central competitive coal heids
agreement
Mortimer Fleishacker. Of Ssn
Francisco. banker; regent University