New Britain herald., 1930-03-08
HOOVER AND AIDES SEE BETTER DAYS
 WITHIN Z MONTHS
Peak Of Unemployment and Business Depression Reached
 in Late December or January
LESS THAN HALF AS MANY
 HIT THAN IN OTHER SLUMPS

J'reSflcnt Says Average C1uZCnS 10
 Have Odd Jobs Done to Aid Sit
 nation Construction Contracts
 Show 40 to 45 Per Cent Increase
 Over Any Previous Figures for
 January and February, Statement
 Says.
 Washington, March s UP) - President Hoover and his business advisers-officials of the commerce and labor departmcnts-sec the dark clouds of unemployment and busi- ness uncertainty cleared away with in 60 days.
 The chief executive. secretary of Commerce Lamont and Secretary of Labor Davis were on record to this effect today in series of optimistic statements issued after a thrce-hour study of the latest figures
 Urges Immediate Helps
 The hand of MT. Hoover was seen in an appeal to. the average citizen 10 help by starting ahead of time this year those little jobs of clean ing up and repairing usually done about the home in the spring time, so that many now unemployed may have work. This suggestion was made in the joint statement by Davis and Lamont, which was issued with that of the president from the White House late yesterday.
 High points of the joint summary of the situation were:
 l. The worst effects of the stock market crash on unemployment will pass within 60 days.
 ?. The low point of business de- pression and unemployment was reached in late December and carly January. Conditions have steadily improved since then.
 8. The amount of unemployment, in proportion to the number of workers, is only onc-third or one half as serious as it was after the panics of 1907-0S and 1920-22.
 4. A canvass of trades employing l7.000,000 persons indicates that be- tween 100000 and 1.125,000 more persons are out of work now than at this time last year.
 ,. Acute unemployment is con- fined 10 r states, while in the oth- CT 36 seasonal unemployment" or minor abnormal unemployment" is rapidly being absorbed
 I'cspitc Davis statement Tuesday that 'thc delays in tariff legislation are more responsible today for crc- ating unemployment than any other 7actor,' he said yesterday, in con- junction with Lamont, that in those industries affected by changes in the tariff the employment situation has 'becn either stationary or showing slight decline"
 First Recent Statement
 The White House statement ycster- day was tie first important one deal ing with business which Mir. Hoover has made since his series of confer cnccs With industrial leaders here following the stock market crash last fall. It was seen here as an at tempt to reassurc the country's con- morcial interests, which might have become alarmed by widespread un- employment demonstrations yester- day in :, number of American cities, that more jobs soon will be available and that trade will be more brisk.
 Nationwide response to the re- quest for increased construction and improvement work by public au- thortics, railroads, utilities and in dustrics is having a most material effect" tho president pointed out.
 "Construction contrasts in these categories in January and February were from 40 to 45 per cent higher than ever known in those months. The total construction work for 193O seems assured to be larger than even 1929.