The Carbon County news., 1931-08-06

President Hoover, embarking on
a new study of unemployment in
anticipation of another hard Win
ter, summoned John Barton Payne,
chairman of the American Red
Cross, to the White House for a
discussion on bringing about closer
cooperation among all Federal,
State and private agencies dealing
with the situation. The Presidents
move had hardly been revealed
before Secretary Doak came out
flatly in favor of a six-hour day
and five-day week for workers
in industry as we'll as in the gov
ernment.
A few hours after President
Hoover had summoned John Bar
ton Payne to the White House to
propose further study of unem-
ployment conditions, Will a m
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, issued
statement, predicting that the
coming winter will be the worst
since the depression began. Mr..
Green said that the prospects
were that 100000 industrial
workers alone would be idle, which
is 100000 more than in January
last when unemployment reached
its peak. To meet this condition
he proposed program, the out
standing feature of which is
systematic shortening of work
hours.
Much speculation in regard to
what further efforts, if any, the
administration may make to have
industry maintain existing wage
levels resulted from the publica-
tion in part in dispatches from
PaWtucket, R. l., of a letter by
Secretary Lamont to Representa-
tive Condor, in which Mr.. Lamont
discussed the governments rela-
tion to the problem. The Lamont
letter, which was in reply to one
Representative Condor had sent
to President Hoover, stated that
while conclusions reached at the
White House conferences late in
1929 had succeeded remarkably in
sustaining wages, some industries
were now "faced with the pros
pect of closing down altogether
and thus creating more unemploy-
ment, or, alternatively, seeking
temporary wage reductions" The
latter declaration was being inter
preted in some news dispatches as
a suggestion by Mr.. Lamont that
wages might in some instances
be temporarily reduced to pre-
vent increased unemployment.
# i
Allied Printing Trades Council
of New York State, in convention
at Niagara Falls, adopted a reso-
luton citing the unemployment of
millions of wage earners of the
United States," and urging Pres
ident Hoover to call Congress in
extraordinary session Immediately
for the purpose of issuing bonds
and appropriating funds for a
system of public works and i'm
The council suggest
ed that the projects be of a char
acter so varied as to provide
employment for every adult citi-
ZEN seeking work. 1t urged a, |
method of procedure that would
abolish delays occasioned by "red |
tape"
In a series of articles in the
Saturday Evening Post Senator
George H. Moses, of New Hamp-
shire, in discussing the greater
readiness with which the Senate
low yields to organized pressure,
5ells story that is not calculated
% increase respect for that body's /
courage. He recalls an occasion
when a dozen Senators were gath
cred in the cloakroom just prior
20 voting upon a measure which |
vas on final passage. All express
I'd their opinions of the bill. With
out exception they were hostile.
But when the bell rang and they
,rooped into the Senate Chamber
Ell of the twelve voted for it. He