The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-19
Launch Plan To Put
 3 Million To Work
Governors of New England 10 Attend Meeting in Bos- ton Tomorrow to Hear Davis Flexible Work Day and Week" Project IN. E. Industrial Leaders Also Represented

Boston, July 19-A plan for add ing three million persons to the na-. tion,s pay rolls on the basis of the current volume of business Will be
 protected for nationwide discus
 sion and adoption at a meeting to
 be held here tomorrow under the
 auspices of the New Hampshire
 Unemployment relief committee and the Massachusetts commission
 on the stabilization of employment.
 it was announced here today. .. k
 With nationally known figures of
 industry and commerce, economies
 and sociology. attending the con-
 ference, as we'll as long list. of
 leading New England industrial
 ists, educators and labor officials.
 the sponsors of the plan expressed the belief that, if put into wide spread effect, the plan would go
 far to solve the country's unem-
 pIoyment. The purpose of the con-
 ference, it was declared, will be to develop discussion of the principles
 involved in the plan with the hope
 of their widespread adoption by
 government, industry, and com
 merce. Those attending the con
 ference will do so by invitation of
 the sponsors of the plan.
 Tomorrow's meeting, called the
 "Joint Conference on Felixabie
 Work Day and Week." will be at-
 tended by the governors of the
 New England states. Governor
 John G. Winant of New Hampshire
 is chairman of the committee on
 arrangements.
 The plan known as the New
 Hampshire Plan for Re-employ-
 ment" was developed by Harold M. Davis, industrial engineer of Mas
 hua, N. H. It involves application
 to all units of government and
 business of the principle of flexible
 working hours. The objective is
 to put into practical application the idea, long discussed by economists and business men, of apporttoning available work among available
 workers so far as practicable.
 MT Davis. chairman of the com- mite on unemployment of the
 New Hampshire unemployment re- lief committee, has been working for upwards of year in develop ing the technique by which the principle of flexible working hours may be applied in different lines Of
 activity. He has been assisted by
 representatives of many lines Of industry. Before launching the
 plan, it has been worked over care
 fully to satisfy business executives and industrial engineers that its application is feasible.
 Estimating that of the current total number of unemployed some three millionaire out of jobs be- cause of technological reasons. the plan developed by MT Davis sets out to provide the working basis on which these three million tech nologically unemployed may be a. l.gain set at work. The belief has been expressed that if by the swift application of this plan three mil- | lion persons could be given jobs. the resulting impetus to business and the improvement in public psychology and .sentiment" would start the business curve upward. Among the prominent figures ex- pected to be present at tomorrows s conference, are Miss Frances Per- kins, industrial commissioner or | the state of New York; ". H. H0d- son, head, of the New York Vel fare council; Dean Wallace B. DOnnam OI tHc 11dTNdiu VI ou.~eS school of business administration; John Finley, editor of the New York Times; Harry c. Knight or New Haven, Conn., president Of the New England couhcii and member of the presidents organization on | Unemployment relief; Henry F. Kendall of the Kendall Company. outstanding nationally figure in the textile industry; Robert Fechner of washington. general vice-presi- dent. of the International .Associa- | ton of Machinists: Ernest Martin Hopkins, president of Dartmouth college; Karl T. Compton. presi- dent of the Massachusett Institute of Technology; and President- Elect Stanley King of Amherst college. Other leaders expected to be present include group of prom inent directors of the New England council. Among them are John F. TinsIey, president and general manaker of Crompton and Knowles Leom Works. Worcester; Aifrod ". Donovan, president, 70. 1T. Wright company, Hoekland, Mass: Brads bury Cushing, managing director, Hotel etRfier, Boston, Mass, and chairman of the Masaae ehusefts ins dustriRI md development commie. slen; and olln D. 0ay, president, Qay Brothers company. chyepaish'
 'otber buaInsss executives Include Levi q. Cross, president of tHe Granite Manufacturers atHoeia VQh Of Dnfre, Vf, Joahun Brooks, DFesis a6nf 0f inc Il00Fn Hank N0lo 0oI1s