The Connecticut craftsman., 1932-03-15
Commission Urges
 Job Insurance Interstate Body Recommends Compulsory Form Connecticut Represented

Albany, N. Y.-Compulsory estab- ishment of Statewide systems of un- employment reserves, out of which payments would be made to the job less during periods of depression, is recommended in the report of com- mission of experts appointed by the governors of six big industrial States.
 The commission, known as the In- terstate Commission on Unemploy- ment Insurance, is composed of Leo Wollman of New York, chairman; Charles R. Blunt of New Jersey, A. Lincoln Filene of Massachusetts, C.. A. Kulp of Pennsylvania, w. M. Leiserson of Ohio, and w. J. Couper of Connecticut. Members of the com- mission were named in 1881, when Governor Roosevelt invited the chief executives of Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jer- sey and Connecticut to meet here.
 Compulsory formation of unemploy- ment reserve organizations based on payment by each employer of per cent. of his pay roll are urged in the report. The 2 per cent. is to be re- duced to 1 when the accumulated are serve for each worker reaches $50.
 No Common Pool.
 Each firms or company's payment to the unemployment fund would serve as its own reserve and would not be put in a common pool. This method, it is urged, would prevent unstable or irregular industries from drawing upon the pool at times when there was no general unemployment.
 The maximum benefit to be paid to a jobless worker would be $1O week, or 50 per cent. of an employees wage, for ten weeks in any year.
 The commission advises the crea- tion of an unemployment administra- tion of three members to represent labor, industry and the public, charged with establishing the pro posed system of unemployment re- serves.
 In recommending that contributions to the fund be made by the employer and not the employe the commission says that the worker should not "be required to reduce his earnings" by payment of a contribution and be- cause the employers Financial under the plan would operate as a continuous incentive to prevent unemployment as far as practicable"
 For Better Job Exchanges.
 The commission urges that the States take prompt steps to extend their systems of public employment service. 'eNo system of unemploy- ment insurance can accomplish it's purposes without a properly organized and efficiently operated system of exchanges" the report says.
 ''We are conscious of the fact," the report says, "that our proposals are modest and moderate. It is not, in our judgment, sound to impose an onerous burden of cost on Ameri- | can industry. The measures adopted now can, we recognize, only incident i ally serve to mitigate the effects of severe and prolonged depression. It may we'll be that the unemployment of long Impressions can be met only by the creation of extraordinary re- serve funds raised from contributions by employers, labor and the Federal We are clear, however, that the type of measures we propose constitute a constructive attack gon the problem"
 Plan Held Forward Step.
 In ending it's report, the commis- sion says:
 "The adoption by the six States of 3 system of unemployment reserves, similar to the plan here proposed, would constitute a great step forward n the joint consideration and hand ing of interstate industrial problems. The pressing need for an intelligent program, revealed once more by our experience during the past two years, should hasten the fla 1orable consideration of a moderate and practicable proposal for construc- tive experiment"
 Governor Roosevelt praised the re- port in making it public and an-
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