The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-02-21
l,4OO NAVY YARD
FURLOUCH CASES
TO Be REVIEWED
Reinstatement Promised
Men Dropped by Error.
First Want Reported.

Review of the cases of ], 400 fur
loughed employees of the Navy Yard
will! be completed by the end Of this
week. At that time any errors will
be corrected by the reinstatement
of the men affected. according to.
Capt. J. II. Dayton, commandant,
last night.
Following the Wholesale releases,
force of clerks started checking
efficiency ratings and length of
service Navy Yard officials admitted
that. iae to the short time allowed
them. it was Possible some mistakes
had been made. and promised to re-
instate employees discharged through
error. officials would not state how
many men would be affected by
the revised list.
No Transportation Funds.
A committee. from Local l74, COM
posed OF Z, II. Bailey and George
Elmitt, called on Secretary of Com.
merce Hoover to learn whether he
had at his disposal funds for re-
turning employees of the government
10 their homes. The committee
working in the interest of Navy
Yard employees who had come to
Washington from various parts Of
the country, were told that no funds
for that purpose were available.
Probably no reply will be made by
Secretary DENLY to the proposals
OF Samuel Gompers, president of the
american Federation of Labor, un-
I'll tomorrow. Navy Department Of
fcials indicated.
LABOR leaders entertain little hope
for relief from this quarter. we
rad an indication of the attitude of
the Administration" said N. p. Alfias.
president District A, Machinists'
Union, when Senator Lodge intro
duced his amendment to direct re-
pair work on the Leviathan to the
Boston yard" Senator Lodge knew
fore he introduced the measure
that the contract had been let with
private corporation in Newport
ews, Va, it was said.
Relief Imperative.
"Cnless'we get relief from the ad
ministration," continued Mr.. Alifas.
we shall take the matter to Con-
gress. Regardless of what the ad-
ministration decides we expect to
endeavor to have Congress pass
legislation compelling all govern
ment armament to be made in gov
ernment plants. In addition to
Keeping the government plants run
ming. this will be a big stride to-
ward decommercializing war. 1t
will take the profits of war out Of
the pockets of munition makers. So
far the administration has seemed
entirely out of sympathy with our
aspirations. but can see no possi:
BILE grounds for opposing this pro-
posal."
Commandant Dayton, of the local
yard. last night confirmed his state
ment of last week that approxi-
mately 121s per cent of the navy
yard Office force will be released
the last of this month. In addi-
tion. the commandant stated, a
will be furloughed due to the small
amount of work being handled by
the yard at this time.
Officials of the local union report-
ed the first cases of actual want
that have come to their attention
as a result Of the navy yard lay-off
Several families in destitute cir
cumstances have been found and
aid given, 1t Is said. One particu-
larly deserving case, union officials
said. is that Of George Pierce, 223
Fifth street southeast Pierce, who
has but one leg, has a family of
eight children, IT is said. Follow
ing his release from the navy yard,
and unable to obtain other employ
ment, he has exhausted his small
savings. Yesterday. it is said, he
received orders from the Housing
Commission that he will have to
vacate his house at the end of five
days. The family has no place
to go.
Proposals of the local union to
collect so cents a week from navy
yard employees who were not fur
loughed met with a setback last
night when Capt. Dayton announced
that no collections for benevolent
purposes WILDE allowed within the