Indiana daily times., 1921-10-06
COLONEL WOODS
TAKES CHARGE
OF EMPLOYMENT
Appointed by Hoover to Con
SoIidate Communities in
Producing Jobs.
LOWER PRICES ASKED

| Special to Indiana Daily Times
! and Philadelphia Public Ledger
| WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-The task of
working into a smooth running machine,
the State and municipal organizations for
emergency employment as recommended
! by the National Unemployment Confer
ence, has been intrusted to Col. Arthur
Woods of New York, who did yeoman
work in re-estabnshing service men in
civil life in 1919.
| Colonel Woods appointment as agent
for the conference in co-ordinating the
efforts of communities to take care Of
their jobless was announced by Herbert
Hoover. Mr.. Woods will remain in Wash
ington until the unemployment emergency
| is passed and probably will retain with
him a committee of the conference, long
after the conference itself has adjourned.
The program which Colonel Woods
will expect the communities to follow is
contained in the reports of the commit
! tee on municipal organization for IN
employment and the committee on un-
employment agencies. Briefly the plan
provides as follows.
TO GET FIGURES
ON UNEMPLOYMENT.
The mayors ommittee should try
to harmonic the operations Of all
the different agencies which are try
ing to relieve the situation.
The facts of the extent and distri-
button Of unemployment should be
made available to the public.
Each locality should have a pub
lie employment bureau
The mayors committee should try
to get the whole community be-
hind the effort to speed up the con
struction Of public Improvements.
In some cities Spruce up" cam
paigns have proved good.
1t is important to strengthen and
increase the resources OF the local
family welfare agencies which are
best prepared for effective service,
and TO give them vigorous support
in order that they may deal prompt
ly and adequately with the needs of
families and individuals.
The mayors committee should pro-
vide centralized registration Of the
unemployed.
This registration for employment
should be wholly separate from anv
registration for relief from distress.
As a recommendation for measures of
permanent relief from unemployment I'm
the United States. members of the manu-
lecturers committee of the national un-
employment conference it is learned. hope
10 approach the question of wage re-
ductions without disrupting the confer
ence by provoking withdrawal of the Ia
Dor representatives
The conference, it is pointed out. can
get nowhere with recommendations of a
permanent nature without taking cogni-
al ho
desire of the Administration and Herbert
Hoover TO Keep off controversial subjects
as far as possible. For this reason the
committee which already is on record as
favoring price reductions as an emer-
gency measure, will approach wages by
way of price cuts
ASK REDUCTION
IN ALL PRICES
The emergency recommendation of the
committee that manufacturers. whole
salers and retailers bring down their
prices to replacement values doubtless
will be rewritten into the recommenda-
tons for the permanent program Labor.
it is believed, can not well afford TO
balk at the suggestion that wages be re
duced if that suggestion Is predicated
upon real price reductions In other
words, the conservative manufacturers on
to convince the labor delegates that the
conference. in dealing with permanent
measures, must regard the question of
wages from an economic standpoint IL
the conference is to do any constructive
permanent work.
The manufacturers committee was the
only organization of the conference In
session "Wednesday and for several hours
the committee members met with Mr..
Hoover. A subcommittee to study the
report recently submitted to the confer
ence by Mr.. HoOver's advisory board oe
experts was appointed by the manufac-
turers composed Of the following mem
bers: W. H. Stackhouse, president of the
National Implement and Vehicle Com
pany, chairman; William L. Butler Of
Fargo, y. D.; james A. Campbell, presi-
dent of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Company; Samuel Gompers, and John A
Penton, editor Of the Iron Trade Review
Copyright, 1921, By Public Ledger Com
pany.