The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1921-10-05
TE:LV: STEPS SUGGESTED
Fer Relief Of IJlE
Communities Must Act, But
State and Nation Viii Aid,
Say Job Farley Leaders

Washington, Sept. 30.-Tentative
recommendation for providing work
for the nations jobless workers, es-
timated at four million, were COM
pleted today for submission to the
national conference on unemploy-
ment
The recommendations drawns up
by the conferences steering COM
mittee on the basis of reports from
the various other conference COM
lnlttess, were characterized as an
emergency programme and said to
be based on the principle that I'M
employment is in the main a problem
for solution by the individual COM
mittees. the Federal and State Gov
ernments aiding in such ways as
possible.
Esta blishment of representative
emergency committees in the COM
munities to coordinate the work of
finding Jobs for the involuntary idle
and for registration of the unem-
ployed was understood to be recon-
mended as the initial step in the re-
lief programme. Other recommends
lions were understood to includes:
Part Time work Suggested
Publication of the number of I'M
employed by the individual COM
munities.
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 posi-
BILE.
Continuation of repair and similar
work on a normal scale.
Doing OF repair and alteration
work by office building, hotel and
home owners during the coming
winter instead Of in the spring as
usual.
Expansion Of street, sewage, re-
pair and building work by munich
palities to the maximum volume
Establishment of part time work
by municipalities.
Cooperation by State officials
with local leaders in the unemploy-
ment relief movement through the
Fastening of road, State building
and similar construction.
Federal Construction Work
Construction Immediately by the
Federal Government of buildings
ami other works for which appro-
priations are available.
ACTION by Congress at the present
session on road construction legis-
lation.
Enactment by Congress of the pend
ing railway funding bill with ex-
penditures of funds conditioned on
an increase in employment.
The full conference will receive
the Steering Committees recon-
mendations at a session TO be held
late in the day. Some changes in
the recommendations, it was said,
might be made prior to the meeting
of the full conference. e.
Farmers Could Aid
Declaration that the farmers of
the nation, if permitted and aided
could help in relieving unemploy-
ment is made in a statement to the
Conference Committee on Statistics
by w. l.. Burdick of North Dakota,
representing the American Farm Blu
reau Federation, who is a member
of the conference. The statement
pointed out that il the buying power
of the nations farmers were increas-
cd manufacturing and all other lines
OF trade would be benefited as a
means of increasing the farmers
buying power. Recommendations
were made as follows:
Reduction OF freight rates; &C.
velorment of deep waterways l.
Meeting the Great Lakes with I ,
ocean; elimination OF middlemen De
tween the farmer and consumer; f.
nancing Of crop movements and per-
mission for the farmers to sell in a
protected" market If compelled to
buy in a protected market