Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-19
|DDLESS MOUNTING,
u. S. REPORTS SHOW
Clifford and Young Confident
Communities Can Aid
Own Unemployed.

While Walter s. Clifford, national re-
lief director. and Owen d. Young,
chairman Of committe to mobilize re-
lief funds. declared themselves confident
that local communities could take care
Of their own jobless conditions. the La
Dor Departments Bureau OF Statistics
today reported unemployment continues
mounting throughout the Nation.
Fifteen industrial groups reported to
the bureau q three-tenths of per cent
decrease in employment during August.
A recent report of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor said seasonal employ
ment had checked the downward trend.
but for August It was estimated that
/ S 100000 were iobless. The federation
predicts that there will be 1000, 900 un-
employed this Winter.
Payroll totals, the bureaus report
pointed out, also showed q decrease OF
IL per cent. The report was based On
returns made by 46,91T establishments,
having in August 1884, employees.
whose combined earnings in one week
we're $105,527,4sI.
McKeIvie Presents Plan.
Both Clifford and Young refused 70
close the door entirely ON the prob
| ability that Federal appropriations
| would be needed this Winter to take
care Of distress arising from unemploy-
ment, and Samuel r. McKelvie. former
Farm Board member and one-time
Governor Of Nebraska, today submitted
| to the Farm Board his plan TO make
Sterilization Corporation wheat avail
| able to the needy through Community
Chests. He had discussed the proposal
with the heads OF several relief agencies
| here this week
McKelvie estimated that 10000 900
bushels Of wheat would be suficient TO
feed the unemployed and poor. Con-
| greSsional action would be necessary to
reimburse the board for this amount
from the approximately 100. 900 900
| bushels It controls.
| Young came to washington Yesterday
with members Of his committee to con-
fer with Clifford as to plans for the
| national appeal for local funds from
October 10 to November as. After the
conference with the relief director the
| committee chairman talked with news
paper men. Thoroughly at ease and
perched up on the corner Of o desk, he
allowed correspondents TO FIRE questions
at him.
Asked II his committee would be able
to meet the needs Of the unemployed.
he replied:
IT don't want 70 plaophesy because /
don't know. Our first Job is to 90 at
the problem with al energy We can and
with Q confident belief we win meeS e.
I think we VIII"
'You don't intend TO leave any douht
about your ability TO take care 81 tire
situation, do your" he was asked
mo, not any doubt about the efEec-
tiveness Of public and private funds
| locally applied"
do you think Federal fun6s VIII -
IrarasxaFv1u
Il don't think we are going to LET
anybody suffer IN the United States
this Winter. What that requires
don't know"
Meantime, Chairman stcne and Carl
Williams Of the Farm Board said TREY
were In favor OF McEe1viess suggestion.
The chairman said the question had
way and Williams suggested that Cum
muntty Chests buy direct frum tina
board with local funds.
McKelvse said he had 1pprraalaed
no member Of Congress to tutrnd1lEn
the necessary IeEislaEicn N the next
Congress. but expressed himself aa CON-
1dent the proper bin wuuId be G3ersE.
Il am sure he said. such actian
cannot be construed 81 q dole. and
am sure there VII be Nc opposition
IN that respect. A few leaves eE broad
VIII never tend to make and American
any less energetic
II believe ID eco bushels win b
entirely adequate The average peE
capita consumption IS about fS1ur
bushels. he fesdlng period VII &
tend only through the severe WtnEeE
months, not more than SIX months
And besides not all Of the nnenrlcyed
VIII take advantage OF e.
! Local communities p-uoahly would d
asked 70 process i for baking fn5c
bread. with the Community Chests
supervising the arrangements and Gis-
tribution.
McKelvie said he had received Nth
ing but favorable expressions since he
suggested the plan q month aSo4 Told
at nrSt that farmers would oppose e
| on the grounds that they would lose q
market for that amount OF wheat. Re
said mot q single farmer spoke against
It,"
i Job Increase SuaaIl.
/ The Statistical Bureau reported thae
increased employment was shown IN
3 of the Is Industrial groups-anthrs-
cite mining, S.4 per cent: bituminous
coal mining, O.8 per cent. and canning
and preserving. 39.s per cent.
decreased employment according %
the bureau, was shown in each of the
remaining IL MISREPRESENTATION
90 per cent: metallifer0us mining 0s
per cent: quarrying and non-mefallic
mining, per cent; crude petroleum
producing, As per cent; telephone and
telegraph, 0.8 per cent; power. Hehk
and water, O.8 per cent: electric rail-
road operations, 90 per cent: wholesale
trade, O.3 per cent: retail trade, as per
cent; hotels, 0.5 per cent: laundries. II
per cent, and dyeing and cleaning, 81
per cent
The bureau said that the OUTSTANDING
decreases in employment were III per
cent IN machine tools, IL per cent in
agricultural implements, So per cent
In rubber boats and shoes, and 81 per
cent In shipbuilding Founiries and
! machine shops reported IS per cent
| fewer employees: automobiles, 90 uer
cent; iron and steel, a. per cent. and
cotton goods, is per cent.
The West North Central and The
South Atlantic geographic divisions.
according to the bureau, reported in-
creases In employment IN August. and tha
New England division reported fn-
creased earnings. The remaining afvi-
sions reported both decreased eruulov-
ment and earnings, the greatest de-