Evening star., 1922-02-14
FURTHERNAWYARD
CUTS NOW FEARED
Number Likely to Lose Jobs
Not Stated-Lab0r Leaders
Push Relief Plans.

The administration feels that the
Navy Department has given every
confederation possible to the navy
yard workers. 1t WAS said today at
the White House.
The government. II was declared,
could not Justify. continuance of work
which was costing OO.000. 900 a
month in view OF the action Of the
Washington arms conference. Sepa-
ration Of workers In the navy yards
from their jobs was fOreseeu. 1t was
snid. and the Navy Secretary took
~efton to fsrlsnxhg hgakheszeAe dis
charge them, 30 aS tUUeSesf6e work.
ers every confederation possible.
Labor leaders will present to Secre-
tary OF the Navy DENLY tomorrow
morning a suggested concrete pro-
gram designed to relieve the imme-
diate Unemployment crisis attending
workers and to prevent recurrence
Of the personnel cuts in the future.
simultaneously with the drawing
up of this relief program came an ad-
mission today by Capt. J. H. Dayton,
commandaRt of the Washington navy
yard, that a further reduction in the
force at the local yard was contem-
plated about the end of this month.
Efforts to obtain from the COM
mandant an estimate of the number
Of men to be laid off were fruitless.
Gompers Works ON Plan.
The concrete proposals" which
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
officials of the machinists' and other
unions will submit to Secretary DENLY
were drawn up this morning at a
meeting of a special committee ap-
pointed yesterday during conference
of local. national and international
union leaders in the federation build
ing. This committee is composed of
A. J. Berres Of the metal trades de-
partment of the federation: John F.
Anderson. vice president of tn. In
ternational Association of Machinists; (;
n p. Alias, representing the ma
chinists also. and J. n. Davis of the
International Brotherhood Of Boiler
Following the meeting of the COM
mittee today. Vice President Anderson
announced that the program of sue-
gestions outlined will be sound and
practicable and. most important of
all HOI cilldlI IHC expenditure
Of any government funds not already
available. Under the program the
drastic situation in labor circles
through the dropping of hundreds of
navy yard workers will be amelio-
rated and insurance will be provided
against future lay-offs.
Hope to Provide Work.
While the program as drawn up by
the committee was not made public
it is understood that it was based on
arguments presented at the labor
conference yesterday at federation
headquarters. At this meeting il was
pointed out that approximately $500
100000 of the naval appropriations
authorized for the present fiscal vea,
will be saved through the arms jimi.
tation treaties. in addition to sa1 .
100000 of appropriations unexpendeo
since 1915. 1t is planned to seek an.
proval of means for making this
money available for CARRYING ont ni
the auxiliary building program nrS.
Vided In the treaties. This would pro.
vide work for the normal force in
the various navy yards, it was de.
clared.
1t was pointed ont at the denart.
ment that the work of scrappine
warcraft is confined almost entirely
to the cutting up of the ships and
the moving of heavy weights, which
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