Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-31
400 D. C. EMPLOYEES
put ON 9-DAY WEEK
TO HELP JOBLESS
New Places Created and
Present Workmen'S Sea-
son Extended.
COMMISSIONERS CONSULT
WITH THE PRESIDENT
District and Federal Authorities
Will Cooperate to Handle I'm
employment Problems.

In order to alleviate to some extent
the expected hrashness of the coming
Winter to unemployed persons, the Dis
trict Commissioners today announced q
plan for putting certain per diem work
ers on part-tin1e work-three days q
week-and thereby not only avoid the
necessity Of laying men of In the de-
partments involved during the Winter
but making it possible to secure 400 new
part-time jobs. The scheme will be put
into effect November 16 in order to have
1t start Immediately after a pay day to
avoid pay roll confusion. 1t will only
apply to laborers below the rank OF
foreman.
In selecting the 400, the Commits
sionerS announced. only bona fide resi-
dents of the District in need of Jobs
Will be taken on. Those who apply
VIII have to submit their credentials
to the District Committee on Employ
ment for checking to make sure that
District workers will not be sacrificing
themselves for the benefit of those
from other parts of the country.
Tnere are about 1000 per diem work.
ers in the various engineering depart
ments of the District government, about
400 OF whom normally would be laid
on by the end of the open working
season, November Is.
District and Federal authorities con-
ferred yesterday at the White House on
coordination in obtaining the best ad-
vantage of the public building program
here.
At this conference the President called
District Commissioners ReicheIderfer
and Crosby, E. c. Graham, Chairman
OF the District Employment Committee
ElWood Street, director of the Commun-
ity Chest; Charles C. Glover, IT., Dis
tict representative of the Presidents
organization on Unemployment; Fred
Croxton, assistant director of the Presi-
dents Organization, and Merle Thorpe
OF the United States Chamber of Com
merce.
Plan to Be Worked Out.
The purpose of the conference was
to bring about a closer coordination
OF the District and Federal activities
incident to the public buildings pro-
gram and other public construction
work. The meeting adjourned with
the understanding that the District
authorities would work out a plan to
effect cooperation on the part of the
various Federal departments and the
contractors engaged in public con-
struction work From the representa-
OAOAS AddNC W lie HTeSlQenL during the
conference regarding the unemploy-
ment situation in the District and what
Is essential at this time to relieve the
situation during the coming Winter
President Hoover Is understood to feel
there need be no cause for any worry
about conditions here.
Later Mr.. Hoover summarized this
conference in a statement which was
made public. The statement said.
"A conference was held this after
noon with the chairman of the District
Employment Committee, representatives
OF the Community Chest, the District
commissioners, Mr.. Gifford's Commit
tee and others, in the matter of CO.
ordination between the Federal de-
partments with the District activities
IN the relief of unemployment over the
Winter.
The District authorities will present
plan by which the departments and
contractors working on public con-
struction can actively cooperate to
handle such unemployment problems
as may arise in the District"