Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24
. JOB HUNT PLACED
| FIRST BY WOODS
Expects Relief Machinery to
Be "Under Full Steam
Within Week."
Continued From First page.)

tOOuIiIluGQ FTUIl FIISI HEBc.)
are making redoubled efforts at en-
ployment through the departments
and this work will be pushed to the
utmost. This problem is one that can
be answered only if the whole country
takes hand at it. National unity
in action and organization is the only
force that cen bring the answer. With
120,000,000 people in the United States
with our resources, our ability for or
ganiZation and cur loyalty, we can
fraction that are unemployed and may
suffer from want and privation rs cold
weather comes on.
What is needed is recognition of the
obligations of every man ana woman to
his neighbor and to use this in team
work to carry through the Winter"
Col. Woods said he was seeking tbs
accurate number of unemployed.
I'VE expect to get information from
each city" he added, land pass it to
other cities, particularly as to success
full methods used in combating the ur1-
employment problem.
I'VE want to know all about labor
conditions, those working on part time
and the number of families left with no
breadwinner. 1t is only on accurate
information that wise action can be
taken"
He said information also would be
sought from the Census Bureau, the
American Federation of Labor and State
labor and ether agencies.
Questioned whether it would be NEG
eSSary for President Hoover to con-
vene Congress in special session a
month before the December session,
Col. Woods said, MY preliminary judg-
ment is that special session of Con-
gresS is not necessary" He added,
however. that if the Cabinet Commit
tee, with the aid of States and cities,
was unable to remedy the situation a
special session might be considered.
Denial Made at White House.
Denial was made at the White House
that the President intended calling a
special session.
Although it had been indicated that
the Chief Executive would ask Congress
to remove restrictions upon certain
public work so as to advance the con-
struction program, it was said he would
wait for the regular session.
Col. Woods said he expected the
relief machinery to be operating I'M
der full steam within a week"
He was pleased to note industry gen.
orally was cooperating through the
adoption of the stagger system Of en-
ployment.
1t will not be necessary for the Fed
eral Government to set up a bread
line, he said. adding the feeding of
unemployed was local problem.
Mai. Gen. Lyle Brown, chief of
Army Engineers, announced today that
all matters involving labor along the
Mississippi and Missouri Rivers were
being handled with the greatest dis
patch to keep in employment as many
men as possible.
The generals announcement was
made in connection with reports that
contracts for work on the rivers were
being held up in the War Depart
ment, causing the laying off OF men
hired by contractors to furnish pllings.
Steps Taken on All Sides.
From every side today came news of
steps being taken without awaiting the
setup Of central organization. Not
only business men and indIstrialists,
but great numbers of workers were
registering their willingness to con-
tribute aid. Two Government branches
took steps to help in small but sub
stantil way, the Post ONCE ordering
all overtime eliminated and the work
given to substitutes, while the Shipping
Board announced it would forget" for
the time being, the plan to cut down
the Merchant Fleet Corporations staff
in Washington and elsewhere. Alto
gether this cut would have laid of
some 700 employees at saving APP
proximating $1,000,000. These workers
are scattered at various ports where
stats are not considered essential any
longer.
The number affected by the post
ONCE order has not yet been deter
mined, but is to be made known short
ly. At present a good many regular
employees are making IS cents an hour
for the time beyond the eight-hour
period.
Upward Trend Is Shown.
The Reserve Boards summary of
business and financial conditions for
September found that after the SUBJ
stantial decrease in factory output from
May to August, September had shown
an upward trend, which did not, how
ever, reach former production figures
for the same month. Employment in
factories also increased, though less
than the usual gain for this season Of
the year Residential construction was
said to have increased materially.
The chief gains in employment came
from the fruit and vegetable canning
and the clothing industries and from
retail establishments and coal mines.
Employment dropped in iron, steel, au-
tomobile and lumber industries, and SO
did their production. The production
gains were shown chiefly in textiles,
coal and copper.
Suggestions reaching the Farm Board
that it's supply of wheat be turned over
to feeding the jobless drew from Chair
man Legge the statement the board
would be glad to do so If Congress
would reimburse it for the cost of the
grain. which was acquired in stabiliza-
ton operations.
Extension of the "stagger' system of
employing more workers for fewer days
or hours week, was undertaken by
Army Engineers in charge of flood con-
troll works at the instance of Secretary
Hurley.