Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-04
City-Wide Committee Formed
Under Auspices of the Mon
day Evening Club.
PLAN RELIEF PROGRAM
AFTER CAPITAL SURVEY
Contact Between Possible Employ.
ers and Jobseekers Will Be
Provided by System.

MONDAY EVENING OluD, COuay OTBdIllIeQ
a city-wide committee to cooperate
locally in the national administration
program of unemployment control
The local committee is designed as
permanent organization to deal with
employment sterilization and unem-
ployment relief IN the District.
Platform Is Itemized.
Cardinal points in the program OUT
lined yesterday by the Organization
Committee are:
Formation of Finding Conn
mittee to ascertain the amount of UNI
employment in the District and to re.
port to the public on the unemployment
situation.
Organization of an Employment
Exchange Committee to develop a Sys-
tenn of classifying applicants, to work
out methods of contact with employ
ers, and, in general, to coordinate en-
ployment exchange effort.
3-Establishment of a Public Works
Committee to urge programs and facil-
itate locations Of available jobs. This
committee may appeal to Congress for
a loan to start work Immediately on
the Municipal Center project.
ECreatlon Of an Employment Sta
bilization Committee to promote meth
DDS of stabilizing employment.
5-Designation of a temporary EN-
ployment Committee to canvas the
city for odd jobs about home and fac
tory.
6-Appointment of Legislative Com
mittee to study proposed legislation for
the purpose of expressing the COM
munttyS viewpoint and to suggest local
or Nationwide legislation.
The organization Of the Committee
on Unemployment was authorized by
the Monday Evening Club at its last
meeting.
Members of the Organization Conn
mittee are w. L. Darby, Federation Of
Churches; Rudolph Jose, Chamber of
Commerce; DR.. John O'Grady, Catho-
lie Charities; Leifur Magnusson, WASH
ington representative Of the Interna-
tional Labor Organization; Edward D.
Shaw, Merchants and Manufacturers
Association; Oscar Leonard, Jewish
Charities; Walter S. Ufford, Associated
Charities; Mrs. w. s. Uford, president,
Street, Community Chest.
The following statement of principles
was contained in the report Of the Or
ganization Committee, the report fol-
lowing closely the Cincinnati plan
which received the approval of Col.
Arthur Woods, chairman of the Presi-
dents Emergency Employment COM
mittee:
Will Assist National Plan.
This committee is being organized
to assist the national administration in
its program of unemployment control.
The committee will have for its purpose
the study of ways and means for the
sterilization of employment in the Dis
trict, and for the immediate relief Of
the unemployed during the coming
months. It will consider long-range,
permanent plans for the abatement and
relief of unemployment.
"Inasmuch as the aim of organized
society is to promote the general welfare
and to maintain standards of life, COM
fort, health and decency, it is the opin-
ion of the committee that all efforts
for the relief of unemployment should
have in view the maintenance of exist
ing standards for the actively employed
population. There should be constant
adherence to the program of the Presi-
dents national business survey confer
ence and his national Committee for
the Relief Of Unemployment, both OF
which bodies have opposed any solu-
ton Of the unemployment problem by q
reduction Of wage standards and work.
ing conditions.
The committee accepts as simple
statement of the unemployment problem
that mass production must be accom-
panied by mass distribution or consump-
ton. But it suggests that while mass
production has been achieved and an
excess Of facilities of production has
been created, the problem of mass dis
tribution has not been achieved or even
brought into the first foreground of the
unemployment problem. It believes
that it is not enough that wages and
consumption standards shall keep pace
with actual production, but that stand
ards of living shall keep pace with the
capacity of society to produce, so that
production may not outrun purchasing
power and thus create system of mass
underconsumption, where many are stil
inadequately housed, meanly clothed
and undernourished.
Provide for Committees.
The plan of organizati ton calls for
an executive committee and certain spe-
cial committees. There will be one spe-
cial committee deal with each essential
phase of the general committees pro-
gram, and also a special committee on
vocational guidance to study training
methods and suggest improvements.
Details of the program viii be work.
ed out more specifically at a meeting
this week Of the. Executive Committee.
At the time the personnel Of the exec
utive and special committees viii be
made public.
Members of the City-wide Commit
tee are:
DR.. Karl L. Alter, Miss Hettie Ander-
son, Miss Mary Anderson, James e.
Anderson, Maj James Asher, Frank w.
Ballou, Paul Benjamin, Joseph Ber-
oerich. Rev. Andrew r. Bird, Miss Selma
Borchardt, Harry K. Boss, Frank j.
Coleman, John B. Colpoys, Howard
Colvin, Howard Cottrell, Mrs. Whit
man Gross, Rev. w. L. Darby, Jo-
seph Z. Dayton, l.. w. DeGast,
DR.. John Ryan Devereux, Miss A. e.
Dick, A. j. Driscoll, Z. A. Drumm, John
A. Eckert, w. w. Everett, John r. Frey,
Mrs Charles A. Goldsmith, E. @.
Graham, Mrs. Goodwin p. Graham,
Isaac Cans, William F. Ham, John Fl.
Hanna, DIR. George G. Havenner. Mrs.
William Walter Husband, Coleman Jen-
nings, G. Campbell johnson, Rudolph
Jose, Harry King, Thomas A. Lane,
Oscar Leonard, M. A. Leese, Edward
McGrady. Leifur Magnusson, Charles
March, w. @. Miller, Howard Moran.
e. j. Murphy, Charles p. Neill, John
O'Grady, Claude W. owen, r. p. Pat
terson, w. Frank Persons, Mrs. w. A.
Roberts, Gardiner S. Rogers, Mrs
George A. Riker, Harry L. Rust, Rev.
John A. Ryan, B. F. Saul, Edward ID.
Shaw, @. Melvin Sharpe, Miss Ethel
Smith, Elwood Street, Corcoran Thorn.
Eugene Thompson, r. NJ Tompkins,
Walter s. Ufford, Mrs. Walter S. Ufford.
Mrs. Otto l. Veerhoff. Mrs. Charles
Thomas Watson, Mrs. r. Thomas West,
George y. Wood, Edward q. YonkeE
and Charles e Young.