The Washington herald., 1921-10-10
MORE employees
TO AID BUSINESS,
IS new ARGUMENT
District Jobless Urged to
Tell Their Needs to
! The Committee.
BUREAU NOW OPEN
Catholic Council Organizes for
Cooperation With Com
missioners.

Skilled statesmen to sell" the un-
employed to local business men will
De recommended to the recently
appointed citizens committee on
Unemployment by Charles ]. Co.
Iumous, secretary of the commit
Tee Saiesmen,- experts in their re-
specfiVe lines. will be hired. by
the eitizens' committee. If Secretary
toiomous suggestion is carried out.
10 call upon local merchants with
their sample cases" filled with a
list OF men who are now out of
employment.
Selling talk will divert from fur
hlture polish. serges, and linens to
the need of restocking in the hu-
man element. 1t will be the work
OF the statesmen hired by the citi-
Zens committee to go into the
problem OF expansion OF business
with each individual employer, en-
phasizing the need of more help
rather than the usual sales talk or
the purchase of additional mer-
chandise.
Bureau Opens To-day.
At o'clock this morning the
Inited States Public Employment
Bureau. at 1910 Pennsylvania ave
nue, phone Main s74. Branch IL.
wilk be opened 10 receive the army
of the unemployed, many of whom.
according to Secretary Columbus.
will be brought in touch with the
bureau fO- the first time today by
the unemployment registration
blanks which appeared in the news
papers of the city yesterday and
today.
Chairman Rudolph Jose, of the
citizens committee, stated that the
survey of unemployed will be I'm
ished within the next few days.
Additional help has been obtained
10 carry ont this work. Jose urged
the necessity of every unemployed
man or woman in the city cOmmu-
nicating with the committee at 14iO
Pennsylvania avenue either by
writing or telephone. Secretary
Columbus also warned of the need
of the unemployed continuing indi
vidual endeavor to obtain positions
without depending entirely upon
the citizens committee.
Further steps to solve the -upem-
ployment problem in Washington and
nationally were taken up by the Ma
tional Council OF Catholic Men yester
day when executive officers here sent
TO local organizations throughout the
country a request for the organization
officially to take up the unemployment
question. During the next few days
committees will be formed in each
Washington parish to cooperate with
the Commissioners and the newly
formed citizens committee on unem-
pIoyment. This action will be carried
out in every town and city in the
country
The enumeration Of the unemployed
and classification, as urged by the cit
jzens' committee, will be carried out
bv the Catholic organization. Net only
the temporary solution of the unem-
pIoyment problem but a permanent one
is sought in the appointment of per-
rnauent committees here and elsewhere
10 study the question as a preparation
for future emergencies
That il is the governments duty
IN provide work for the unemployed
nv the construction of public buildings
nd the like. even though such ven
,ure be a business failure at the present
time. was urged last evening at the
trinity Methodist Church in Alex
sudria by the Rev. ID. II. Martin, for
r,erIy chairman of Draft Board No. l
and prominent civic worker OF that
city.