Indiana daily times., 1921-09-30
PROCLAMATION
TO ASK PUBLIC
TO AID ,JOBLESS
{ resident to Assist I'm
employment Confer
ence Program.
100000 ARE IDLE
Emergency Program
to Be Worked Out
for Quick Relief.

WASHINGTON, Sept so.-A rec
onmendation that Congress lmmedI-
ateIy pass the $5o0,00o0oo railroad
refundng bill was to be presented
late today to President Hardlng's
national unemployment conference.
The conference steering committee,
which drew up The recommendation,
called It "the most important act the
conference can do toward bringing re-
lief in the present labor distress"
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3O.-Presi-
dent Harding probably will issue a
proclamation calling upon the Ma
tion to bend its efforts to meet the
unemployment situation when the
unemployment conference here has
finally adopted program, it was
learned today.
The present plan Of Secretary Of
Commerce Hoover, It was learned, is
to submit the program OF the con-
ference to the President and ask
him to issue a proclamation calling
upon the people to carry out this
program.
4 call to industry to set It's wheels
going for the immediate relief OF the
0 100000 unemployed, VIII be issued this
afternoon by the conference.
EMERGENCY PROCLAIM
70 PROVIDE JOBS.
Aa emergency program to proviie Jobs
for the jobless before winter comes
framed by leaders Of industry and econ
omists, VIII be presented to the Ma
ton.
The outstanding recommendations in
the plan are:
Calling OF community unempIoy-
ment conferences
Establishment OF community boards,
composed Of bankers, organized la
her, lumber and material dealers
anL contractors, 10 stimulate building
and dealing with housing problems
ID each locality.
Elimination OF graft" from the
building industry.
Reduction Of tTs!gnt rates on build
ing materials
Patriotic cooperation by producers,
mRnuts cturers, wholesalers and 10
callers 20 stimulate demand for cloth.
ing and other commodities By reduc-
ing prices to normal.
Rotation Of Jobs IN factories and
mines to arrange shifts 50 that three
men may have Jobs where only one
Was employed before.
Partial employment wherever posai-
bic.
4 shorter work weak IN factories
unable to operate full time.
nationwide speeding up Of all
pubit construction projects.
Additional recommendations which will
be made IN tbs report TO the conference
this afternoon VIII include:
Establishment Of a Federal agency
to encourage public work as a meas
ure 10 Iaeet unemployment,
Cooperation Of the Federal Reserve
Bank system IN meeting the sltua-
tion
Tho report viii stress the necessity for
community solution OF the problem and
VIII state that passage OK a measure Civ
ing the War Finance Corporation author
ity to extend $O01C00.0JO In credits to
the railroads, IS the biggest emergency
palliated - the power Of the Federal
Goyernms
BANKS AND UNION
LABOR CENSURED.
The banks, organized labor and ma
terial dealers all come In for severe CEN
sure IN the report of construction COM
mlttee, each charged with a share OF
blame for the buildiDg slump.
Banks and other financial institutions
are censured for exacting usurious inter
est rates and eztortion in making build
ing loans Labor Is charged with "un-
reasonable demands" and building ma
tcrial manufacturers declared guilty Of
"extortiop' through charging excessive
prices
All are called on by the report to be
reasonable" and do their part to revive
building. The savings banks are criti-
cised for loauing money to workers on
hazardous private enterprises" instead
of using their funds to aid real owners
of money to build homes.