Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-01
DOAK FLAYS JONES
AND NAMES ALPINE
Supervising Director to Take
Over Employment Work
of Resigned U. S. Chief.

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satisfactory and bitterly disappointing,
and it is a source of extreme gratiflca-
ton to me to know that had no part
in establishing it,
You are fully aware" Mr.. Jones con-
tinued, that I did not approve the
present plans and was not in sympathy
with the unsatisfactory working of them.
Yet you appointed me director general
Then when I attempted to discharge
my duties as have done in the past
found, much to my chagrln, that they
had been taken from me.
Scores Wagner Bill Veto.
"As faith in the substance of things
hoped for 1 had faith for the future
of the service because OF your statement
to Preside..t Hoover, made public March
7 in which you recommended that he
veto the bill introduced in Congress by
Senator Wagner of New York which
provided for the Employment Service
requiring subsidies to the States from
the Federal Treasury.
~ cannot you declared, in the in
terest of working people of the United
States give my approval to a proposal
which, while abolishing the tested ma
chinery of a decade of service, leaves
the Government at a critical moment
without any practical instrumentality
to carry forward its necessary service
The President, in statement made
public the same day, asserted that II
I would prevent q serious blow to labor
during this crisis, should not approve
the bill, which unfortunately abollsheS
the whole of the present we'll developed
Federal employment service
"Mr. Alpine has declared that under
the reorganization plan my services
have been exceedingly unsatisfactory.
Had my services been satisfactory to
Mr.. Alpine I should have been false
to my opinions, to myself and to my
record for the past 10 years when was
in charge of the employment service.
Had Urged Expansion.
THAT my services were not unsatis-
factory during the decade I directed the
service is apparent from your statement
to the President that the existing en-
ployment service is fortunately in pos
session of funds with which to carry
forward the work in which it has been
efficiently engaged and which assure
that the interest Of the wage earners
will be protected"
Mr.. Jones was appointed as director
general of the Employment Service by
Secretary James J. Davis on June 3,
1921. He said he found the service in
chaotic condition" He asserted that
after years of hard and intelligent work
on the part of its staff the service came
into its own, and Congress, having full
confidence in the service, at the last
session made a special appropriation of
$500 900 for 1t tc assist the unemployed.
The resigning officer explained that
during last March he submitted to Sec
rotary Doak the following recommended
tions for the enlargement of the serv-
ice: Extension of the Farm Labor Serv-
ice, enlargement OF the Information
Service. further development of the
Enlistment of A additional specialized
employment offices for war veterans.
Balks at Being Eyes Man"
In his letter of resignation he in
formed Secretary Doak that you
harShly criticized me for including in
my plans the establishing of additional
Grams and charged that proposed using
the greater part of the 100000 appro-
priation for the veterans. You asked
what I proposed doing for the train
men and labor. My reply was that or
gained labor takes care of her own
and that the war veterans represented
a cross-section of all kinds of labor.
This did not please or satisfy you"
1T no doubt would have been to my
interest" Mr.. Jones continued. Ito have
agreed with your plans. I could not
speak honeyed words nor give you fiat
tering locks as do not happen to be
so-called 'yeS-man'. My practice has
been to guard the Secretary OF Labor
from pitfalls and my not privately ex-
pressing approval of your plans clearly
proved my loyalty to you.
II am convinced that the setting up
Of machinery by the Federal Govern
ment to AID the UNEMPLOYED veterans
who so nobiy saved their country In
the days of stress is a proper function
Of the Federal Government. whole
heartedly favored establishing more
specialized employment Offices to help
them get Jobs that they might help
themselves"
Tells of Fight for Veterans.
Mr.. Jones explained that when he
learned o. Mr.. Doak's attitude toward
the Veterans Employment Service, he
consulted with parties interested in this
service and they shared his feelings.
I'm our conversation" he informed
MIR. Doak, II said perhaps my action in
the matter would cost me my position,
If the specialized service to which de-
voted much time and honest effort in
its establishment and development could
be saved. I felt. moreove-, Mr.. Secre-
tary, that owed you the duty of pro-
tecting you from the wrath Of all former
service men,"
The campaign waged by Mr.. Jones
against the adjustment of the Veterans
Service, he said, was carried to the
American Legion and then National
Comdr. O'Neil and John Thomas Tay-
lor, attorney and legislative agent for
this organization, called on Mr.. Doak
and voiced their protest. To this, Mr..
Jones informed Mr.. Doak in his letter,
you were good enough to say to them
that you would rescind your instructions
and continue the specialized service as
I had established it,"
ID. A. v. Head Backs Doak.
He pointed out that the veterans ap-
preciated what was being done by the
service and he was honored by three
awards conferred on him by the Oak
Cliff Post, No. 275, of the American
Legion at Dallas, Tex. MIR. Jones
brought his letter to a conclusion by
saying:
ITO have the good will and conf
dence Of the ex-servtce men is OF
greater value tn mo than to be director