Evening star., 1932-11-26
CONFERENCE OPENS
HERE NEXT WEEK
ON UNEMPLOYMENT.
Industrial and Labor Experts
to Attend National ParIey
Friday and Saturday.
PROF. JOHN DEWEY
TO PRESIDE AT SESSION
W. Jett Lauck and DR.. John H.
Gray Will Be Speakers at
Opening Meeting.

National industrial and labor experts
will gather here to attend a national
conference on Congress and Unem,
ployment," at the Ambassador Hotel
Friday night and Saturday, under the
auspices of the Joint Committee on Un-
employment.
w, Jett Lauck, economist, statiStician
and adviser to a number of labor Or
zarizations, and DR.. John H. Gray, head
of the department Of economics OF the
Graduate School of American Univer-
sity, will be the speakers at the Friday
night session. Prof John Dewey, chair
man of the committee, will preside.
Reports to Be Submitted.
At the morning session Saturday, re-
ports will be made on unemployment
conditions in Illinois, by Karl Borders
of Chicago, secretary to the state
League for Industrial Democracy; In
New York, by DR.. Sidney r. Goldstein
Of New York, chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Unemployment Com
mittee; Ohio, by DR.. 1. M. Rubinow,
secretary of B'nai Birth, Cincinnati
and PENNSYLVANIA, Emil Rieve, Phtla-
delphia, president of the American
Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers. A summary of reports on un-
employment conditions in the major in
dustrial cities outside these four States
also will be presented.
Speeches on the immediate duty o1
Congress in reference to unemployment
will be broadcast by the National Broad
casting Co. over national network
from II 80 am. to 1915 pm. Saturday
speakers being DR.. Goldstein, DR.
Dewey, Bishop Francis j. Mcconnell
president of the Federated Council OF
Churches of Christ of America; DR.
John A. Ryan, director of the National
Catholic Welfare Council, and Norman
Thomas, Socialist candidate for PreSi-
dent in the recent campaign.
To Meet Congressman.
At 8 pm. Saturday members of the
81 organizations which will be repre-
sented in the conference, will confer
with members Of Congress on plans tC
get the committees legislative program
enacted.
At pm. Saturday the five-point
unemployment program of the COM
mittee will be elaborated. j. B. Mat
thews, secretary of the Fellowship oi
Reconciliation, will speak on Relief;
Darwin j. Meserole, president of the
National Unemployment League, or
Construction" DR.. LIE Roy E. Bowman
of New York on Housing" and DR.
Abraham Epstein, secretary OF the
American Association for Old Age
Security, on Unemployment Insurance
and Old Age Pensions"
Religion and Unemployment" will
be discussed by Prof. Jerome Davis
director of the Religion and Labor
Foundation; Dr. r. A. MCGOWAN
assistant director Of the National
Catholic Welfare Council, and Rabbi
Edward Israel, chairman of the Social
Justice Commission Central Conference
of American Rabbis.
Among the organizations which will
be represented at the conference are:
The Church League for Industrial
Democracy, the Conference for Progress
sive Labor Action, the Fellowship of
Reconciliation, the Labor Bureau, Inc;
the League for Independent Political
Action, the League for Industrial
Democracy, the National Unemployment
League, the Peoples Lobby, the Social
Service Commission of the Central Con-
ference of Rabbis, the Social Service
Commission of the Methodist Church,
the Workman's Sick and Death Benefit
Association, the American Association
for Old Age Security, the Department of
Social Relations, Congregational Educa-
ton Society, the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers of America, the Amalgamated
Lithographers Of America, the Teachers
Union, the American Federation Of Full
Fashioned Hosiery Workers.