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JOBLESS APPROVED
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he knows they will continue to CO.
operate in the general campaign
Secretary Lamont made 1t plain today
that the Presidents cabinet organization
will serve as an advisory body to Col.
Woods. He said he and the other
cabinet members of this committee will
be busily engaged in making surveys In
an endeavor to formulate ideas Of re-
lief. But the actual direction and
work viii be in the hands Of Col. Woods.
Hunt Temporary Secretary.
Col. Woods at the Commerce Depart
nient began to organize his headquar-
ters personnel.
Edward E. Hunt who was secretary
to the Unemployment Commission of
1921 was designated as temporary sec
rotary for the new campaign. He has
been secretary to the Presidents COM
mission on economic changes and for
nerly was secretary of the United
States Coal Commission.
John M Cries, public construction
expert OF the Commerce Department,
also win assist Col. Woods in his work.
As soon as possible Col. Woods plans
to designate State committees on UNI
employment and committees 20 deal
with the subject in the various in
dustries.
Col. Woods has lost no time in get
ting down to actual work since his
arrival in Washington late yesterday.
Shortly afterward he hurried to the
White House, where he conferred with
President Hoover For half an hour
the latter outlined to him the situation
as he personally viewed 1t and made
suggestions as to governmental aid and
then turned the job over to him to
then went
Department of Commerce and con-
ferred with Secretary Lamont
Race Against Human Misery.
Col. Woods today indicated that he
would rather discuss his ideas OF the
problem before him little later on,
saying he hardly had time to give it
any great thought and because every
thing now Is in tentative form.
Whether the present problem Is
more or less serious than that imme-
diately after the war. there is no doubt
that 1t is serious enough. We are in
race against human misery. We can
win with jobs and relief to prevent the
kind Of suffering we otherwise would
have" Col. Woods said.
Relief is q local problem, but we
win coordinate relief activities, en-
abltng various localities to know what
is being done elsewhere.
extraordinary vigor in their efforts
That is q fundamental difference be-
tween the present situation and that
which confronted us after the war"
Mayer CUrIey Calls on Hoover.
Later Mayor James J. Curley of Bos-
ton conferred with President Hoover
today and acquainted him with what
Is being done in the Hub City TO assist
In the unemployment situation.
Mr.. Curley's real purpose was to
obtain the Presidents help in cutting
what he described tho red tape" Of
the War Department to bring about |
the transfer Of Governors Island in
Boston Harbor from the jurisdiction of
the War Department to the City of
Boston for municipal airport purposes.
The Boston mayor told the Sresi-
gent that II this transfer !. can be
brought about at once his city stands
ready to spend $4,000 900.
Sixteen million of that amount will
be for the building of tunnel connect
Ing the island with the present mu-
nicipal airport on the mainland, $780,
goo for boulevard and 81 $50, 900 for
Malng up the island for airport purposes
ne said this would give employment to
1,600 men for the next few years.
Mayor Curley told the President that
ne has named the heads of the various
universities and educational institutions
in and about Boston as q Committee to
study the unemployment situation there
and to work out an unemployment pro-
gram. Form the White House Mayor
Curley went to the. Department Of
Labor to confer With the head of the
ployment. -
Steel Industry Thrives.
Encouraging news regarding me en-
ployment situation as It affects the
steel industry Of the country was given
President Hoover, by Charles F. Abbott.
executive director of the American In
stitute Of Steel Construction. Mr..
Hoover was informed by this steel man
that there is no unemployment in his
industry 1t Is doing record business
and prospects for next year are SO
bright as to lead him to feel that the
reccrd-breaking year Of 1929 will be
exceeded. He added. however. that he
and his associates are conscious Of the
unemployment facing other industries
and are doing what they can to help.
Mr.. Abbott described a meeting held
In New York last Tuesday by number
Of financial leaders, at which 1t was
agreed that the biggest problem facing
this country today Is unemployment.
He said IL was planned at this meeting
to hold mass meeting shortly at which
leaders of other industries will be in
vtted to participate TO arouse the latter
to q full sense of their responsibility
and to awaken the country to need for
cooperation
NJ S. sloan, president of the New
York Edison Co., said that the ur-
challenged industrial leadership Of the
world which the United States has held
for q number of years, continued even
during the present depression. America
remains better of socially and indus
trially than other nations, he added.
Good times ahead for the iron and
steel industry were seen by George M.
Verify, president of the American
Rolling Mills Co.
More capital saving must go to Inn
proving the living standard and less
into productive facilities. Wages and
standards must be raised not lowered"
said another speaker Gen. Robert z.
Wood, Sears, Roebuck a. Co. president
Radio was acclaimed by M H. Ayles-
worth, president of the National Broad
casting Co., as the NEST important
factor in stopping the farm-to-city
movement.
Overcapaeity Being Corrected.
Many Of the industrial leaders signi-
fed concurrence in the statement of
Harvey S. Firestone, jr., vice president
of the Firestone Tire g. Rubber Co..
that 1.-THE condition of overcapacity Is
now well on the road to correction"
Prominent leaders OF industry at the
banquet speakers table last night in
cluded Edward @. Schubert, president of