The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-19
FIRST REPORT TO
 GOVERNOR UPON
 UNEMPLOYMENT
The Emergency Committee Named By Chief Execu= tive Submitted Its Find= ings to Him To-day

f1dTIlOTU, SOllL, rep 1J-\OI - The governors emergency commit | first report to Governor Wilbur l.. | Cross to-day. describing efforts to | coordinate the defective" work
 now being done by local organiza
 tions and outlining plan for ob- ] taining data useful in case of future depressionS.
 The report, released by Governor Cross, was signed by the committee,
 James w. Hook, New Haven indus trialist: Howell Cheney, Manchester silk manufacturer; E. Kent Hub- bard, president of the Connecticut
 Manufacturers association; Harry c. c. Knight, president of the Southern
 New England Telephone company; John w. Murphy, New Haven labor
 and democratic leader; and Henry
 Trumbull. Plainville manufacturer and president of the Connecticut chamber of commerce.
 The report stated investigation immediately disclosed the fact that every populous community in the state has active relief committees
 working. These committees "were
 already posted on the major forms of relief recommended in the pub- lished bulletins of the presidents
 emergency committee on unemploy-
 ment and other bodies" the report
 continued.
 The committee decided to regard
 the unemployment problem in Con- necticut as one that is being at | effectively, by local groups, none of
 which is in close touch with it's
 neighbors'. One of its first tasks
 was obtaining the name and location
 of every local relief agency and it's
 manner of approach to the problem. | The committee was reported glad
 to note a tendency on the part of
 municipalities to insist on return
 for the funds they pay out, thus
 avoiding the bad practice of paying
 wages for idleness."
 Suggestions to employers for bud | getting employees time ahead and li-
 quidating determined losses immedi-
 ately, made to manufacturers. were
 cited as was the committees success
 full advocacy of a measure to appro-
 priate $1O0,O0O for hiring unem- | ployed men to thin state forests.
 The second objective of the com
 mittee-to collect statistics available
 at the end of the current depression
 and possibly valuable in determining , future remedies, was described for l the governor
 A possible value of such data, it l was said, is the fact that demand | for unemployment legislation is in- creasingly constantly.
 "Whether such legislation is prac- | ticable or sound can only be proven by data and facts that are warranted and accurate" declared the report.
 Manufacturers have been asked to
 a. semble the material and submit it
 to some central agency because of
 the emergency committees limited staff and resources.
 Forms and methods of assembling
 such data were described in the re- port which noted four objectives: 1. Trend of employment of iden- tical industries over continuing period of time dating back to Oc- tober 1929.
 2. Trend of payrolls of the same
 employers over a continuing period
 of time dating back to October. 1929.
 = 3. Trend of total hours of employ
 ment of the same employers over a continuing period of time dating
 back to october. 1929.
 4. A record in all industries that
 will show the precise effect the pres ent depression has had and is hay ing upon the hours of labor of each | of it's employees.