Evening star., 1921-10-05
TWILL ENLARGE BODY
0N.UNEEPLOYMENT

The emergency committee on unen-
ployment in the District of Columbia,
appointed yesterday by the Commits
sioners. will be enlarged. and each
member of the larger committee will
be urged to constitute himself a job
recruiting agency, Commissioner Ru-
dolph announced today. The first
meeting of the committee will be held
at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the
District building. The committee is
expected to Immediately put in motion
plans for relieving the unemployment
situation here and suggest the names
Of additional members of the larger
committee, who viii represent each
section Of the city.
The Commissioners TODAY notified
the Presidents Unemployment con-
ference of suggested plans for re-
ieving unemployment in Washington.
Fundamentally the recommendations
OF the Commissioners restrict the un-
employment register in this city; first,
to essential breadwinners; second, to
those resident in the District on Octo-
Der i. and third. to those who agree
to accept any employment for which
they are physically At: The recon :
down by the full conference in gem
eral session last week.
Priority will be given to those hav-
ing no reserve resources. either per-
sonal or organizational, the Commits
sloners advised the conference, and
those who repeatedly fail to give
satisfaction to employers will be re-
moved from the list. Employers will
be asked to give priority to recon-
mendations from the list of regis
tered unemployed. Each person who
registers will be given q number and
the list will be confidential. only num-
bers being announced as jobs become
open. Charitable agencies are to be
urged to give no relief to persons not
on this list except in cases OF illness.
loss of breadwinners, etc.
The program outlined by the Com
missloners is expected to be adopted
at the meeting of the committee this
afternoon.
WIN Head Central Agency.
Col. Arthur Woods, former police
commissioner of New York city will
head the central agency to be est2b b.
conference on unemployment to CO.
ordinate emergency relief for the job
less wage earners throughout the
country, Secretary Hoover announces.
According to Secretary Hoover. the
/ conference wishes to see the whole
country organized on a community
basis to effect the quick distribution
OF jobs to the Involuntary idle
through efficient operation of the
emergency program adopted last
week; Informal machinery. voiun-
tary in its nature. is being set up in
the form of one of the conference
| committees. which can receive re-
ports from various communities of
the progress being made and trans
nit to the different localities success
! full methods being tried out in others.
Deliberations of the manufactur-
/ ers' committee looking toward recon-
mendations for a permanent policy
for combating unemployment and aid
| ing the economic betterment of the
| country were resumed today.
| The committee. of which W. H.
Stackhouse of Springfield. Ohio. is
| chairman, includes in its member
ship Charles NJ Schwab of New York,
| Samuel Gompers and other leaders
i Members of the conference say the
| findings of the manufacturers COM
| mittee would be regarded as the CEN
ter for a general economic program