The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-10-01
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TO AID jORLESS
Part Time Work Urged to Pro-
vide Places For Idle.
PLAN MUNICIPAL! BOARDS

Community Drives, Part Time, Stock
and Repair Work and Road Building
Included.
Washington, Oct. 1.-Tentative rec
concentrations for providing work for
the nations jObless workers, estimated
at 1000, 00O were completed for SubmiS-
sion to the national conference on I'M
employment.
The recommendations drawn up by
the conferences steering committee on
the basis of reports from the various
other conference committees were char
acterized as an emergency program
and said to be based on the principle
unemployment is in the main q prob
lem for solution by the individual COM
munitics, the federal and state govern
mentS aiding in such ways as possible
Establishment of representative
emergency committees in the commune
ties to coordinate the work of finding
jobs for the involuntary idle and for
registration of the unemployed was I'M
derstOOd to be recommended as the mi
tiaI step in the relief program. Other
recommendations were understood to
include:
Publication of the number of unem-
ployed by the individual communities,
Establishment of part time work by
manufacturers, thus increasing the
number of workers used by each plant
Operation of factories and mills in
the making of stock where possible.
Continuation of repair and similar
work on Il normal scale
Doing of repair and alteration work
by office building, hotel and home own
ers during the coming winter. instead
of the spring as usual.
Expansion of street, sewage repair
and building work by municipalities 10
the maximum volume.
Establishment of part time work by
municipalities.
Cooperation by state officials with
local leaders in the unemployment re-
lief movement through the haSten:ng of
road, State building and similar con-
Struction.
eral government of buildings and other
works for which appropriations are
available
Action by congress at the present
session on road construction legiSla-
tion.
Enactment by congress Of the pend
ing railway funding bill, with eXpen,
ditures of funds conditioned on an in
crease in employment.
AS means of increasing the farm
ers' buying power, recommendations
were made as follows:
Reduction of freight rates; develop
ment of deep waterways connecting the
Great Lakes with the ocean; elimina-
ton of middlemen between the farmer
and consumer; financing of crop move
mentS and permission for the farmers
to sell in a protected" market if COM
PEELED to buy in protected market.
The problem of bringing down prices
of manufacturers and retailers as the
surest way to break the buyers strike
and revive industry was again to the
fore. 1t was reported the proposed
resolutions were adopted by the COM
mittee on emergency measures by man
ufacturers, advocating the reduction of
price levels on the basis of present
costs of raw materials.
Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania is
one of those who has expressed the
belief the most effective emergency
measure is to take steps to speed up
industry by cutting prices. He sent a
telegram to Secretary Hoover in which
he outlined measures which were being
followed in Pennsylvania, and predict
ed the situation could be changed over
night by price cutting by various in
dustrieS.
Estate and county highway construc-
tion," said Governor Sproul, public
work under way in our cities, school
districts and various municipalities
and other undertakings of a public
character in Pennsylvania at the pres
ent time amount in the aggregate to
about S125, 100000. This is doing much
for the industrial situation here