Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-16
LABOR SUGGESTS
JOBLESS AID PLAN
Committee of Public and Pri-
vate Groups Headed by
Hoover Urged.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, October 16-The American
Federation of Labor today offered an
unemployment relief plan in the form
of cooperative committee Of pub
lie and private groups, headed by Pres
ident Hoover.
Under the plan, adopted at yes
terday's convention session, the Presi-
dent, Governors of all States. mayors
and other city. and county officers, as
well as labor groups, would appoint
national, State, county and district
committees. In cooperation with Fed
eral and State departments, these COM
mittees would make specific recon-
mendations for their particular To-
calities.
The executive council Of the feder-
alton was instructed by the convention
to call upon President Hoover imTne-
diately after the adjournment OF the
convention.
A report of the resolutions committee
said:
Public works should be started at
once and all procedures and practices
making for delay should be removed.
Private enterprises should not withhold
necessary extensions, improvements and
, repairs, but all should do their share
for this emergency"
Suggestions included in the relief
plan were those of the federation ex-
ecutive council, which said that relief
of unemployment depended upon the
stabilizing of industry, maintenance Of
purchasing power to provide power Of
consumption, efficiency in management,
reduction in hours of work, use of public
works to meet cyclical unemployment. a
Nationwide system of employment ex-
changes and adequate records.
The convention referred to the execu-
tive council the question of unemploy-
ment insurance. President William
Green said that such insurance limited
the liberties of the working man and
that while in some European countries
it might have been found practicable,
the methods used there would not apply
here.
Discusses Patent Law Changes.
The desirability of amending the
patent laws of the country to protect
workers was taken up at today's session.
In discussing patent laws and dis
placement of labor by machinery, Presi-
dent Green declared the patent laws
offered a fertile Held for study and
that the displacement of skill by ma
chinery is a tragedy"
In the report of the Resolutions Com
mittee it was said that the federation
never had opposed the introduction OF
/ labor-saving machinery or the develop
ment Of scientific processes.
Parker Defeat Cited.
| The Executive Council submitted an
| optimistic report on national legisla-
| ton and cited as Of outstanding i'm
portance the failure of confirmation OF
Judge John j. Parker for appointment
| TO the United States Supreme Court.
The report, which was accepted, ex-
| pressed confidence that the United
States Senate would proceed to enact
| legislation designed to prevent the
| courts from using yellow dog contracts
as a basis for injunctions.
The convention adopted a resolution
| supporting the King BILL which would
provide an appropriation for border
patrol to enforce restrictions against
Mexican immigration.
! The convention was keenly interested
in the question Of CONSUMPTION Of pri-
vate property for use without profit by
| the Government in case of war and the
| Executive Council was instructed to
/ watch carefully all developments and
| take any action necessary to protect
| labor interests.