The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-05
INDIANA WILL TAKE
PROMINENT PART IN
'JOBLESS' CONFERENCE
PALLADIUM NEWS BUREAU


WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-Indiana
business interests and labor organiza-
lions are manifesting considerable in
terest in the unemployment confer
ence which President Harding has
called to meet in Washington 1t is
expected that the Indiana represen-
lation at the conference will be large
one. Indiana is one of the important
industrial states. and the reports COM
ing from that state indicate that the
unemployment situation there has
reached an acute stage.
The announcement made by the fed
eral reserve board that no factors
warrant predictions of a widespread
business revival this autumn. linked
with the assertion that unemployment
may remain serious for considerable
period, has tended to make more COM
pick the problem which President
Harding hopes to solve.
Labor is Suspicious
The attitude labor is assuming to-
ward the unemployment conference
is not particularly encouraging. The
conserva tive element indicates that
the administration may expect its cor
dial cooperation. The radical labor
group is antagonistic. 1t has ex-
pressed suspicion of the purpose of
| the conference.
1t has been reported that Samuel
| Gompers, president of the American
| Federation of Labor, is to pa anticipate
| in the conference. He reached this
decision, it is said, when it was init
mated that neither Judge Z. H. Gary,
head of the United States Steel Cor
| poration, nor James Emery, of the
| National Manufacturers associa ton
would be in attendance.
| Labor officials have neither denied
| nor confirmed reports that they had
| demanded that both Gary and Emery
be excluded from the conference.
! Labor" publication which re-
| fleets the views of the radical labor
group, in its current issue, fatty
charges that the conference is to be
used to Influence the senate" to pass
the bill which was recently passed By
the house to pay the railroads $780,
000, 900
Government Lays Foundation.
The administration is moving rapid
ly to lay the ground work for the un-
employment conference Already the
government has undertaken a thor
ough survey of all the important
cities to determine accurately the ex-
tent of unemployment
The government has become accus-
toned to opposition from radical labor
in the formulation of any important
industrial policy and it is confident
that it will have the complete support
OF conservative labor, as we'll as the
, support of the business interests of
the country, in its present effort to
prevent widespread misery through
r out the nation this coming winter.
) There were some encouraging signs
noted by the reserve board in its lat
est review of the national economic
situation, but they were largely sea
, sonal in character, incident to earlier
crop marketing and movements
Harvest Labor Menace.
! The administration realizes that
with the close of the harvests hun
dreds of thousands of people engaged
in harvesting will join the ranks of
the unemployed, which alreaGe include
over five million people. Early revival
; of business had been the main hope
: of administration leaders to avert just
: such situation.
The president is said to realize that
: the problem of the jobless may become
the most serious issue the government
will have to contend with. and that
,. this issue will be fully developed with
in the next 80 days unless prompt
measures are found to relieve the sit
: uation. He is confident, il is said, that
> the unemployment conference will
find satisfactory solution of the
: problem.