Evening star., 1921-10-06
MEET TOMORROW
IN lob CONFERENCE
Organizations Here Advised
to Put Washington at
Head in Relief Efforts. >

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mite plan Of cooperation of all trade
and civic bodies with the Commits
sioners and the District employment
agency in such relief will be consid-
cred at a meeting tomorrow morning OF
three representatives from each Of the
organizations asked by the Commission
ers to solve the unemployment Sit
uation in the capital
A small committee composed OF
presidents Of the Chamber of Com
merce. Board of Trade. Merchants and
Manufacturers Association, Rotary
Club, Kiwanis Club, City Club and
Civitan Club and the general secre-
tary of the Associated Charities has
already been appointed. This commit
tee at meeting yesterday afternoon
in the office Of Commissioner Rudolph
decided to enlarge its membership to
include three members from each OF
the organizations named.
The whole committee. including the
new appointees, will meet tomorrow
at the District building and will out
line definite program for relieving
unemployment in Washington.
-RudoIph UrEea Speed.
Commissioner Rudolph did not at
tend the meeting yesterday, but in
a short talk urged the committee to
get to work as speedily as possible.
lie. said he wished to see Washing
ton the first city in the country to
get behind the program OF the Pres
1ent's unemployment conference In
! .ctively relieving unemployment.
The committee yesterday urged er-
! ployers of all sorts of labor in the
District to make full use Of the Dis
trct employment agency. at 14lO
Pennsylvania avenue which has
jobs at the bureau and the job for
which each person is particularly Mt
! ted. Robert L. Livingston of the
District employment agency appeared
before the committee and said there
was no way to know the number of
said. had been estimated at about 81
geo. He promised full co cooperation OF
his office with the local committee
and urged employers to make fuller
| by taking some Of the unemployed
| who had applied to him.
Forms Central Agency.
| of the national unemployment con-
| ference in charge of co-ordinating
| community relief activity was begun
| today by Col. Arthur Woods of New
York. who has been appointed in
| according to Col. Woods. is to act
as a clearing house to furnish the
| different communities with susges-
| ticns and information on the results
! Of unemployment relief methods of
! other sections 1t will also ascer-
! tain the progress made by the com
!; munities and seek to facilitate the
efforts of the whole country.
| Plan Permanent Policy.
! Work on a permanent policy for reg
ulations of employment throughout the
/ country, involving the revival OF the
nations business and commerce was
! begun yesterday by the manufacturers
! committee Of the national conference on
unemployment.
! Discussions were said to have been
! limited to the suggestions for stabiliza-
! ton Of business advanced by the
economic advisory committee of the con-
I ference with particular attention paid
| the problem Of effecting commercial
! revival of permanence without conse-
quent recession in the movement
One of the chief causes OF industrial
depression, experts declared, is to be
found in the lack Of information avail
able to business men as to certain es-
sential facts connected with their gem
eral lines of business. The farsighted
| business man who desires to forecast
the future and to guide his action ac-
cordingly, they said. is often compelled
! to rely upon pure guesses or arbitrary
estimates.
The committee is meeting again to-
J day.
President Rea's Statement.
President Rea of the Pennsylvania
railroad issued a statement last night
| in which he said it is the purpose Of
| the Pennsylvania management to CO.
i operate. as. far as possible, in efforts
. of the President to reduce unemploy-
ment. He said the total force of the
road is now $4,000 men, as compared
F.; with 1S5.625 on May Is.
! ut is our hope that still more men
will be needed and that We shall be
| able in the near future to find en-
pIoyment for a further increase in
the force" the statement said. I'VE
intend to utilize the additional men
chiefly in putting our idle equipment
in order prior to the coming winter.
We fell that if we put them in order
now We shall not only be prepared for
any unexpected revival in business.
but shall also be assisting az time
! when aid is most needed in President
Harding's endeavors to improve the
general employment situation"