Evening star., 1921-10-04
FIRST MOVE MADE
BYCOMM|SS|ONERS
T0ASS|ST J0BLESS
Committee Selected to Han
die Unemployment Prob
lem in the District.
WILL MEET AT ONCE
TO GET UNDER WAY
Joint Efforts to Alleviate Situation
Will Be Made With Bureau
Now in Operation.

The Commissioners today made the
first move toward carrying out the
program of the national conference
on unemployment to find Work LOT
the jobless men of Washington.
Commissioner Rudolph announced,
following board session, that per
manent committee would be appoint
ed to handle the problem in con]unc-
tjon with the District employment
bureau, at I41O Pennsylvania avenue
The committee for the present Will
be composed of the following:
Thomas Bradley, president OF the
Board of Trade;
Albert Schulteis, president OF the
Chamber of Commerce;
Philip King. president of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Assocla-
ton;
Charles W. Semmes, president of
the Rotary Club;
Claude H. Woodward. president of
the Kiwanis Club;
Edward S. Brashears, president OF
the Civitan Club;
Walter S. Ufford of the Associated
Charities.
A call has been sent to these men
to meet in the ce of Commissioner
Rudolph at o'clock tomorrow after
noon to organize and get under way.
This action by the Commissioners
probably makes Washington the first
city in the country to respond to the
appeal issued by President Harding
last night for cooperation from gov
ernors and mayors in meeting the un-
employment situation.
Commissioner Rudolph already has
received from the unemployment con-
ference written suggestions to be
used by the local unemployment COM
mittee. The Commissioner said he
was not at liberty to divulge the ma
ture of these suggestions.
In the employment bureau at 141O
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington al
ready has the nucleus for an efficient
job-finding organization. This bureau,
which is operated jointly by the Com
missioners and the Department Of La
Dor, has found work for thousands of
There are many ways, however, In
which the unemployment committee
appointed today can cooperate with
that bureau in seeking to prevent
hardships due to unemployment dur
ing the winter months.
$3.50 Unemployed Here.
Figures made Bahliss today at a, the the
Presidents unemployment conference,
show that about September l there
were $40 unemployed In the District
of Columbia. The figures, furnished
the conference by the United States
employment service. were taken from
pay rolls of firms in the District and
as result OF survey OF unempioy-
rlent here.
Miscellaneous" unemployed formed
the larger part of the total. totaling
5.175 Of the 5,720 unemployed:
A survey of railroad repair shops
in Washington showed $40 former
employees dropped from pay rolls and
ind
with iron and steel and their prod
ucts Thirty had been dropped from
industries dealing in food and kindred
products.
Secretary Hoover, permanent chair
man of the conference, was under
stood today to be in receipt of ad-
vices from several other cities in ad-
dition to Boston and Cleveland, advis-
ing him that they planned to put into
immediate effect local measures de-
signed to relieve unemployment
in the Unsd states e1 Surng
the last fiscal year due to involuntary
idleness were put at more than $6,-
50O,000,000 in an estimate prepared
today by economic experts OF the
conference. The estimate, 1t was ex-
planned. covered the loss in wages be-
cause of unemployment of all the
jobless in the country from July, 1920,
to August Is, 1921, and was based on
an approximation OF normal pay lev
els rather than on the scales at the
peak of high wages. Efforts of the
conference, it was said, would be
turned toward a remedy for the eco
nomic loss to the country from such
reductions of earning power of its
workers in the future by stabilized
industrial plan.
Preparation of the conference rec
omm mendations for a permanent policy
to combat Unemployment and revive
business and commerce would prob
ably require at least two weeks work
officials said. Some of the subcommit-
tees might complete their reports be-
fore the conference reconvenes mkt
Monday, it was believed, but it was ex-
pected that new committees would be
formed for the investigation Of vari-
Gus economic problems involved in
the situation and that probably an
other week would be consumed in
drafting the final conference recon-
mendations
In addition further consideration of
the emergency program may be taken
up by the conference and emergency
measures suggested.