Evening journal., 1921-09-14
SEEK Way To
GET JOBS FOR
UNEMPLOYED
CONTINUED on Page Fourteen.

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in company with Commissioner
Pierson and personally inspected
work then under way.
Council already has authorized
the issuance OF $1,267.0O0 in bonds
for "guttering, paving, widening
streets and for the construction of
sewers" of which amount s750.0O0
has been issued. The present city
budget also carries s390.574.S6 for
of the regular work of
the department. Whether an addi-
tional issue of bonds for street i'm
provement may be made at the
present time, in view of the de-
mands already made on the city's
treasury for the new marine ter
minal and public library. is a ques-
ton. An intimation that such sub
ject was under discussion at today's
conferences. however, was contained
in a statement by one of those at
tending them. that Council will
have to give authority to the matter
under consideration"
1t is possible Mr.. McManus may
bring the question before Council
tonight. If sufiic ent members appear
to form a committee of the whole.
In the meantime Mayor Harvey
is looking forward to comforting
with Francis 1. Jones, director-gen-
eral of the Unemployment Service o.
the Department of Labor at Wash
ington, who has sent word he will
be in Wilmington on Friday As told
in The Evening Journal yesterday,
Mr.. Jones plans to re-establish a
government employment bureau here
for the benefit of idle workers
Mayor Harvey already has an
nounced he will appoint a commit
tee Of citizens to consider ways and
means of finding employment bu'
does not expect to announce his ap
pointees until after the Commission
on Unemployment recently named by
Presidet Harding meets next week
in the national capital
No little interest was expressed ir
local commercial circles today in the
results of the "business-revival
luncheon held by the Industrial Re
lations Committee OF the Chamber
Of Commerce Of Philadelphia yes.
terday afternoon. At this luncheon
54 firms employing many thousandi
of workers pledged themselves tS
seek jobs for the large army OF un
employed in that city.
Governor Henry ]. Allen, OF Kan
sas. who was a speaker, estimated
that 5000. 900 persons we're idle ir
the country. and also declared thai
It was not so much the amount oi
wages paid. but the multiplication Of
unnecessary jobs in all industries
which is keeping the cost of pro-
duction high.
The resolution pledged each per-
son present and the association oi
concern he represented and called
upon all others in Philadelphia t'
Join in the task of providing EN-
lployment for those who are invoi
UNFAIRLY idle. II provides further 70
the appointment of committee
composed of the president o
all the organizations presen
and all others who might be in
terested to carry out the sentimen
of the resolution. And 1t provide
for a future meeting Of similar ma
ture as that of yesterday. The In
dustrial Relations Committee of tn
Chamber Of Commerce is made tn
lclearing house through which all ac
tivities shall pass.
When A. ID. Warner, Jr., presi
dent OF the Wilmington Chamber o
Commerce, was shown a report to
day Of the "business-revivar lunch
, con, he displayed deep interest. He
, however, declined to comment a
/ present on the local industrial sit
uation, saying he was planning to is
; sue statement during the comm
. week. Il was Mr.. Warner an
/ former Mayor Taylor who called tn
conference on building trades whic
resulted in a report on cost Of ma
terials and labor. Today he sal
! he believed eternal optimism wa
e the keynote which would tend large
y ly to relieve the situation" addin
( that the low cost of materials an
e labor shown in the ret ent report o
] building trades sh ,uld stimulate az