Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-22
STUDY OF J0BLESS
STARTED PENDING
ARRIVAL OF WOODS
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April 1 total of those able to work ond
seeking jobs at the same 100000.
The task, however, is further COM
plicated by the Summer-long drought,
still unbroken in some sections, which
already has called for emergency aid
from the Government, many States and
the railroads. The peak of need for aid
by drought sufferers all along has been
expected to come in the Winter with
exhaustion of depleted farm supplies
and funds.
Veterans Preference Asked.
/. Herman H. Weimer, national COM
mander of the Disabled American Vet
Grams of the World War, wrote to Pres
ident Hoover today urging that IAN
effort be made to guarantee preferences
for qualified disabled men to fill any
positions that may be created as a re-
suit of your efforts"
Weimer said the disabled veterans
''have keenly felt the lack of oppor-
| tunity for work" and that he felt justi-
fed in asking special consideration for
them Gin the present emergency"
Residents of the South Atlantic States
were said by Commissioner of Agrtcul-
ture William A. Graham Of North Caro-
lima, to be confronted with the necessity
of raising price levels or lowering liv-
| ing standards.
| In addressing the thirteenth annual
meeting yesterday Of the National As
ISOLATION of Commissioners and Secre-
taries OF Agriculture. Graham said,
wages, prices of agricultural products
and living costs have been, and are yet,
| so far out of adjustment that the
average farmer cannot get enough for
| his produce to enable him to pay his
| hired help enough to meet the cost, in
many cases, of their actual living ex-
! penses."
Before the representatives of IS States,
he North Carolina commissioner sketch
ed the conditions he said were prevail
| ing in the States of West Virginia,
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Georgia and Florida.
| Apart from farmers, Graham said.
''the laboring man will be compelled to
| live within his present meager income
| and those who have capital must be
| content with smaller returns II in
| vestments are made at all in the present
depressed industrial conditions"
But there is ray Of hope" he con-
| tinued. "Our cotton mills are slowly
regaining their former activities. A few
of them have lost very little time and
some of those that have stood idle for
| many months have recently reported
greater spindle activity.
1--WE cannot, however, expect anything
like complete industrial recovery till
the prices of farm products show a
marked improvement, thus increasing
the buying power OF our rural popula-
ton"
Members of Group.
Formation of the statistical group was
suggested by President Hoover on Au-
gust IL. Besides Secretary Davis It in
cludes Secretary Lamont, John P. Frey,
American Federation of Labor; Arthur
o. Wharton, railroad brotherhoods and
allied organizations; DR.. Leo Wolman,
National Bureau of Economic Research;
Harold F. Browne, National Industrial
Conference Board; P. w. Litchfield
United States Chamber of Commerce:
w. M. Steuart, director of the census;
Ethelbert Stewart, commissioner of
labor statistics; DR.. Joseph H. Willis
Advisory Committee Of the Census of
Unemployment, and Noel Sargent, Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers.
Before the statistical group assem-
bled at the Labor Department Gen"
Jacob S. Coxey, who once led an army
of the unemployed against Washington,
was on hand with a placarded automo-
bile awaiting an interview with Sec
rotary Lamont, chairman OF the cabinet
committee appointed by President Hoo
yer to deal with unemployment.
| CcXey was ushered in for a private
discussion of his ideas-wnich called
largely for expenditures on public
works by governmental organizations
to make jobs-and took his departure
with the official thanks for his call.
In spite Of the nearly 80 years which
have elapsed since his famous march,
the commander appeared still hale and
hearty.