New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-08
$4,000 Board
Created to Hunt
Jobs for .Jobless
Estimate Bureau Provides
30 Places; Chairman
Coler, W. F. Deegan and
John Sullivan Get No Pay
Will Start Work at Once
Cooperation of Federal and
State Officials Sought
10 Help Solve Problem

The Board of Estimate yesterday
took hand for the city toward the
relief of the unemployment situation.
At the suggestion of the committee
appointed by the Mayor last month to
consider the situation. the board created
an Industrial Aid Bureau, consisting
of Bird s. Golfer, Commissioner of
Public Welfare, chairman; Major Will
liam f. Deegan, of the American
Legion, and John Sullivan, representa-
tive of labor. An appropriation of $685.
0Oc was authorized for the initial ex-
perse of the new bureau.
While the three commissioners of
the Industrial Aid Bureau serve with
out compensation, it's staff of assistants
calls for an expenditure of over $4,000
IN salaries for new positions. There
is director, at $4,000 per annum,
an assistant director, at $4,000; three
supervisors, at $4,000 each;. ten regis
teIs, at $500 each; five field agents,
at $1,000 each; four file clerks, at ST.
ZOO each; six stenographers, at $1,000
each, and two telegraph operators, at
$1,000 each
Coler Outlines Work
The bureau will cooperate with the
Federal authorities in the effort to
find the jobless work, and will be rep-
resented at the national conference to
be held In Washington this month to
inquire into the unemployment prob
lem. Commissioner Coler issued the
following statement last night in re-
gard to the future of the bureaus:
'Iho CltV'S newly craofod "
Aid Bureau, designed to cope with the
unemployment problem, will be in oper-
alton within the next three or four
days. The committee appointed on
August % to make a study of the sit
uation has completed plans that are
quite definite. All that remains to be
done is to acquire properly located
headquarters that will serve as a clear
ing house where the man and lob NAV
be brought together and from which
clty-wlde operations may be directed.
The choice and fitting out of perma-
nent quarters will be completed with
all possible haste.
mo time will be spent in exhaustive.
costly surveys. The steps to be taken
may be summed up in the following: To
create need for workers, men and
women; to ascertain where this need
exists and systematically list all calls
TOR workers; to make the worthy job
less acquainted with the functions Of
the bureau; to introduce the man to the
job and the job to the man; to provide
a: least one days work if the earnings
OF that day will avert hunger; to begin
wedding out, Immediately, those not
entitled to the benefit of the bureau.
This applies to the itinerant, particu-
iarly to the out-of town type, that, with
every epidemic Of unemployment, come
IN hordes to New York City.
Would Remove Idle Sailors
"In this connection the commission
ers plan to call upon the authorities
In Washington to take immediate steps
to relieve the City Of New York of
10000 or 10000 jobless sailors, brought
to these shores by the United States
Shipping Board and cast adrift in this
port. These, in the opinion of the new
committee, should be treated like aliens
unable to support themselves. They
should be returned to the ports Of
their embarkation, or to the places at
which they were engaged for the serv-
ice that brought them here.
"1n the meantime, to cope with the
problems Of New York City's own,
staff of workers, expert in the matter
of fitting the jobless to the jobs, is
being engaged This staff will be
ready for its work just as soon as Of
fees are made available.'
Other recommendations of the COM
mlttee were:
That the armory board and Cover
nor Miller be requested to place at the
disposal of the bureau the use of the
arm ories in this city for housing pur~
poses or shelters, should the necessity
FOR such arise.
That the city be provided with an
adequate quantity Of food and clothing
out Of the army supplies now on hand
for distribution among the needy, and
that the Federal, state and city gov
ernments be urged to begin at once and
extend, as far as possible, all contem-
plated public work in and around New
York City, for which appropriations
have been made.