New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
HOOVER APPROVES
 DAVIS STATEMENT
Feels It Is Up to Congress to Pass Tariff at Once

l Hoover administration feels that it is doing what it can to relieve un- employment and that congress will be largely to blame if the 3,000,000 who are out of work remain jobless
 The White House disclosed today that President Hoover was in ac- cord with a statement made last night by Secretary Davis of the la Dor department, saying among other things that "the delays of tariff leg islation are more responsible today for creating unemployment than any other factor"
 The tariff bill has been under de- bate in the senate for weeks, while action waits on public building au- thorizations which MT. Hoover ex- poets to provide employment for many now idle.
 Secretary Davis statement, cover ing broadly the question of unem- ployment, was in the form of a re- ply to Senator Wagner, democrat. of New York, who repeatedly has call cd on the administration to do something about unemployment.
 No Conference Considered
 It also was disclosed at the White House that the president has not considered calling a general unem- ployment conference of labor and capital, feeling that everything pos sible in the way of executive aid already is in operation,
 The full text of Secretary Davis statement, referred to today by the White House, follows:
 Secretary of Labor Davis when in terviewed by the press today as to what he thought of the speech in the senate yesterday of United States Senator Wagner said
 "Senator Wagner makes a great show of indignation that the admin istration has not been able to over- come the whole of the terrific dis location of business and consequent unemployment resulting from the stock crash in New York, the sena- tors home city. I admit that there is distressing unemployment, but for the first time in the history of these events by it's actions and policies the administration has held unemploy ment to less than one-half that of previous crashes, and by the stabili- zation of wages and cooperation of the business world, work is being provided in a way that should re- licYe most of this within the very near future. While employment for the week of February 17th as con- pared with February 10th, showed a drop of three-tenths of one per cent, the situation today is greatly i'm proved over the low point of last December.
 Tt is a fair estimate to make that the new census will show some- thing like 46,000,000 individual: earning a living in the country, and certainly 43,000,000 of them are al work.
 Program Having Effect
 The construction program work ed out by President Hoover exceed: 1929 and is having it's effect. Tn, secretary of commerce has an nounced seven billion dollar pro gram for the government and othel civic agencies.
 Senator Wagner's own proposals are for more federal employmeEt agencies and more statistics, and l. 1 sec it, hoped-for cures of tho re. suit of future crashes. I am in ac. cord with them. However, none ot these things create jobs right now For what they are worth, the pres ent administration recommended necessary expansion in employment agencies and statistics through tn, department of labor budget, not yct passed by the senate. But of fai more importance, as I sec it, is the urgent necessity for the publii buildings bill which passed the house, the appropriations for pub lie works in the deficiency bill now awaiting senate action.
 But above all, the workers o the country need the passage of the tariff act to remove uncertainty an1 allow the workers to make in oul own factories the hundreds of mil. lions of dollars worth of goods now