Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-09-27
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h At Reduced Pay Brings /
Trouble, Phelps Says.
Washington. Sept. .---ReluctanceS
Rof labor to acceptance .of work, at re-
Sduced wages was assigned as p cause
sof some unemployment by Roswell n.
Phelps, director OF labor statistics Of
sthe Massachusetts, labor department,
the first witness heard by the nation
eal emrl loyment conferences commit
eetee on sunemployment statistics whicn
set to work today to determine the ex-3
tent and volume Of the nations In:
voluntary idleness.
Blames Labor.
Unemployment is due in some
measure Mr.. Phelps told the COM
.mittee, ,2..to the fact that labor will not
accept reduced wages"
Harry D. Jacobs, president Of the
ex-service mems employment bureau
OF New York, the next witness, esti-
mated that there were $4,000 sunem-
p!oyed former soldiers In New YORK
city and said the establishment of vo-
cational training schools in army
camps as proposed by the government
lem as far as the unskilled world
war teteran was concerned. ,4a
Mr.. Phelps declared that the trou-
BILE in Massachusetts, at present was
not that there was no employment
but that thereawas no work there at
the wages they sought. People could
not find Jobs at the wages they want
cd, he said and were unwilling to ac-
cept the reduced pay.
y To- To enhs IA, fhaa fifficTllfv IF the
former service men was the Inability
or the unskilled man who Is unable
TO do hard york az q result OF his
service, to find employment Analysis
Of 100 employed former soldiers, he
stated, showed that Is per cent were
unskilled and: sof these soyper cent
were llliterate. There was no trouble,
Ice men in New York. The commit
tee exhausted the list Of witnesses
within an hour and a haR after 1t
convened, and ad djourneds until addi-
tional witnesses have been summoned. d.
May Get Hearing.
Urbain Ledoux, Boston. may be
given @a&hearipg before the commit
IHsesgsA to dsts sr1ntnes the e volume
u and extent 81 ,,ul lfemp1o 1oynn ent, q offtcials
II kof the con inference said today. Coin
eItdent with this ~ ilaent Led oux; an
ssSSstiitounred tina tas hs aiad Issued orders Y.
sssssspr.y movement 6f rspr entatives -
he unenp! I! !eysd in Washinston: = Ei''t n,
! ~ = I, Many Ill Minnesota.
IN Washinst ton, ept, ~. Unemploy-
i iiiAent In Msnness was estimated to
i dayssat, about Is All S6sfhy q. "a. Williams
hot the anduatEi tcsmmission pf that
q st4 4tos before onaE anennplby-
]! Ant keEspnss on enc.
BE declared fsd;,
unsmpioymsnt @ Dy II MinneSpoiis, sssrn Sc. &
Paul and Duluth as unreliable. NJ. q
Pittsburgh, sept, 81. Every XII
Il wanian in the. United States was
urged Ito add one more enploye to
your payroll this winter as a means
4: Of aiding In solving the lnemploy-
n1ent problem,i by Harry KaAr Of Bal
timore, international president, XII.
Il wants club. in nm address before the
\ annual meeting Of the Pennsylva mia
1 district here today.
Washington, Sept. 27.-With the
4 national conference ION employment
\ standing adjourned until October s.
\ tho Zen ssu committees appointed al
the organizing session of the confer
\ ence yesterday were ready to get
{ down to work today on g. study Of the
4 various phases Of the problem assign.
cd to each with view to recommend
+ Ing practical relief measures to ths
conference when IT reconvenes or
/ that date. The hearings unemploy-
ment statistics, to develop reliable
data as to the extent and distribu.
( tion Of unemployment as a. prere.
uuisite to enlightened treatment OF
the problem were to begin today be.
- "a P.~,knk ie,xt
Ethelbert Steuart. head OF the bureal
! of labor statistics, was slated as the
chief witness today and q number OF
other witnesses will be heard at theil
4 request. 3@
The work Of spe ecialized committee:
which includes committees on en-
4 ployment agencies and registration
\ and on emergency measures by manu- .rl'l
facturers In transportation, construc.
/ tion, mining shipping and public
works will be conducted for q week
Following the adoption OF emergency
measures after reconvening the con
/ ference again will divide into com,
nittees for the working out Of per.
manent measures designated to holt
unemployment to minimum. 4,
/ Ledoux Heard From.
4 coincident with the opening Of tn,
\, conference, Urbain. Ledoux who at
II IrAcL0Q AJLSIIlOH tOy!gs 1lAn p s1uClAVH ~
unemployed' on Boston Common
came to washington and laid befor,
/ President Harding at the White
\ House, q proposal that the names o
! ali those who doubled their wealth
\ BY prof be made public. As al
Il alternative he proposed that the presi
dent appeal to all who prohted b!
4 the war to donate 604 per cent Of theil
h wealth to an unemployment relic
fund. He said the president received
4, his suggestions with marked interest
Il but gave no Indication, that the.
u would be resorted to for the present
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