Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-29
RAP I'D PROGRESS
BEING MADE BY
COMMITTEES At
JOBLEsS PARLEY
Consideration of General
Emergency Relief Pro-
s~am viii Begin Friday, 5
5 Ahead of Time,
i. .ERAL EMPLOYMENT
v.YAGENcIES ADVOCATED
States and Municipalities
Probably Will Be Called
On to Proceed at Once
With Their Projects,

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o Washington, Sept. 2S.-Ur- &
o balm Ledoux, announced today 9
o he would be in Baltimore Fri {
o day to meet former scviCe &
. men and war workers out of &
o work and select 25 men, pre- &
o ferabIy wounded" as the first {
o section of the ''human dOcu- g
Q ment' he plans to bring here Z
o I'm connection with the unem- z
o ployment conference. :
Q The party will come Friday, :
Q he said, while the second Sec
o tion, composed of war veterans 9
o from many states, 'picked up &
o In the parks" in New York ::
@ city, will leave that place by 9
9 motor truck Saturday, he said. g
Washington, Sept. 2s.- Due
to rapid progress by com
mittees in formulating recommen'
dations, the unemployment confer.
once will begin consideration OF q
general emergency relief program
Friday, five days earlier than had
been planned, it was announced
tonight.
In addition to the report of the
manufacturers committee on
which agreement has been an
nounced, recommendations on
emergency measures will be re-
ported Friday by the committees
on unemployment statistics, en-
ployment agencies and registra-
ton, emergency public works and
construction. Other reports will be
considered as completed, it was
said.
Announcement OF the formation
Of new committee on commun-
ity, civic and emergency relief
measures, to recommend the best
forms of community organizations
to carry out recommendations for
decreasing unemployment was
made today by the conference
This was said to have developed
from indications developing in the
deliberation of the conference that
the immediate problem of finding
work for the idle was for the AnGi.
vidual communities to handle.
The suggestion, 1t was under
stood, has also been made that To-
cal committees should be formed
in the cities and different sections
to administer recommendation
adopted by the conference.
Public hearings today were de-
voted to the question of employ
ment service and the relative ner-
its of public and private agencies.
The majority of the witnesses fa-
vored use of public agencies. eth
er municipal, state, or federal, in
the distribution OF work.
Urban Ledoux, who recently
conducted labor auctions in Bos-
ton, endorsed the establishment OF
federal employment agencies.
Organized labor, according to
w. C. Roberts, of the American
Federation of Labor, was emphati-
cally in favor of federal employ
ment service absolutely neutral in
labor disputes.
The public works committee was
said to have practically completed
report calling ON states and mu-
inequalities to proceed Immediate
ly on their projects whether APP
propriations were ready or not.
Hearings are to be held by this
committee tomorrow to develop
suggestions for the speeding up of
work for the municipalities.
Secretary Davis appeared today
before the committee on shipping
and was said to have discussed the
immigration question in the light
of the employment problem.