Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-08
DELANO TO FORM
COMMITTEE TO AID
D. c. UNEMPLOYED
Commissioners Make As
signment at Conference With
Interested Persons.
COMMUNITY LEADERS
WILL MAKE UP BODY
Col. Woods Thanks District Off
Gals for Letter Soliciting
Suggestions.

The District Commissioners today in
trusted to Frederick A. Delano the task
of organizing committee to deal with
the unemployment situation in Wash
ington during the coming Winter.
A group of persons interested in the
situation who have been holding discus
sion meetings for some time called upon
the Commissioners, who held an extraor-
binary board session this morning to
deal with the problem presented.
After the conference was over the
Commissioners announced through their
chairman, DR.. Luther H. Reichelderfer,
that they had rendered to Mr.. Delano
and that he had accepted the task of
organizing an official District commit
tee to aid the unemployed. Over the
week end Mr.. Delano win prepare a
list of names of persons representative
OF trade, civic, religious, labor and
other similar organizations whom he
wishes to serve on his committee. The
Commissioners will prepare an indie
pendent list of their own. Mr.. Delano
and the Commissioners will confer early
next week on the personnel of the COM
mittee and after the various nominees
have accepted, the personnel of the
committee Will De announced.
Offer Space for Work.
The Commissioners offered to the
committee space in the District Build
ing for setting up an office and as much
clerical help as could be spared for
the committees work.
No general policies were discussed
and these will be left entirely up to the
committee after it is formed.
The Commissioners had before them
this morning reply from Col Arthur
Emergency Unemployment Committee,
in which he thanked them heartily for
their letter soliciting his suggestions
as to the makeup and functions of n
Unemployment Committee. He said
that he would send a representative,
John B. Blandford, to confer with them
on the matter.
The letter did not state when Mr..
Blandford would come, but 1t is as
sumed that his suggestions win have
been received before the formation of
the comittee finally takes place.
Those who conferred with the Com
missioners this morning, besides Mr..
Delano. were Rudolph Jose, DR.. Charles
r. Neill George G. Havenner, president
of the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tons; E. G. Graham of the Board Of
Trade. G. Melvin Sharpe, assistant to
the president of the Washington Rail-
way 81 Electric Co. and John p. COL
poys of the Central Labor Union.
Urges $25,OOO,OOO Loan.
Dr. Havenner at the conference mere
ly offered to the Commissioners the
good Offices of the federation in any
work they desired to be carried out.
Afterward, he said that he intended to
suggest to the federation that 1t sup
port a loan to the District from the
Federal Government of SOS, 100000, to
be paid to the District over a period
of five years, and to be paid back at
the rate of $1,000,000 per year without
interest, with which to GO ahead with
large construction projects plans for
which are now available.
Since legislation would be necessary
for this, and favorable action could not
be hoped for until late this Winter, he
said that he would ask the federation
to consent to the appointment of a
special committee which would under
take the task Of urging all members Of
citizens associations to proceed at once
to do such jobs as house painting, re-
pairing and the like as would normally
not be done until the Spring.
Would Give Work to LabOrers.
With the $25, 100000, DR.. Havenner
said that the Commissioners could be-
gin at once to rae the buildings &C
quired in the Municipal Center area
This would give work to common labor
and stimulate activity in the real
estate field in supplying the needs of
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