Evening star., 1933-04-01
$3,0OO,O(0,0)D AID
FOR JObLESS PLAN
OF PERKINS REPORT
Labor Secretary Also for
Employment Insurance
and Shorter Hours.
RESULT OF PARLEY
WITH 64 LEADERS
Proposals to Be Submitted to
President Generally Approved
by Heads of Organizations.

Secretary Of Labor Perkins today
was preparing a report to President
Roosevelt on unemployment relief rec
concentrations approved by ranking
labor officials, including $1,000 000,-
900 public works bond issue, unemploy-
ment insurance and shorter working
hours.
Agreement was reached by Miss Per-
kins and 81 labor leaders following an
all-day conference In her Office at the
Labor Department yesterday.
The recommendations to be submit
ted to Mr.. Roosevelt for his guidance
in drafting public works legislation
met with the approval OF President
William Green Of the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor, critic Of the Presi-
dents reforestation measure.
Green recommended to the confer
ence adoption of a public works pro-
gram, the f1ve-day week, unemploy-
ment insurance and relief for home
mortgages. He said his recommends
tions had been unanimously indorsed
by rail labor organizations as well as
the organized trades unions.
Agreements Summarized.
At the close of the conference last
night the points upon which the labor
leaders agreed were summarized by Miss
Perkins as follows
I'm the administration Of public re-
Lief there should be a labor representa-
tive on all State and local relief boards
which receive Federal money. This
representation need not be demanded
in Federal legislation, but should be
understood as part of the practical
working program of Federal authorities
In dispensing money.
Great care should be taken in the
distribution Of relief funds that encour-
agement be not given to the sweating
OF labor. Relief funds should be al
lowed to supplement wages, for in in
dustr1es where products are sold for
profit the wages should be suficient to
maintain the wage Garner.
In the enrolment of men for the
conservation corps there Is to be an
adyiser to Miss Perkins who is . labor
High Labor Standards.
"All supplies purchased for the con-
servatton corps should be purchased
from firms which operate with high
standards Of wages and hours.
Great haste should be made in start
Ing or resuming public works programs
throughout the cities and States. These
need not be Federal public works prof.
ectS, but local projects already planned
or designed and known to be needed
projects which will contribute to the
future welfare Of the communicated
post onces in the desert-such as water
works, sewage disposal plants, flood con-
troll and slum clearance projects.
Child labor should be prevented
either through the adoption of a Fed
eral amendment or uniform laws in the
States, as a means of increasing the
number of jobs for adults.
The seven-day week should be abol-
ished throughout the labor world and
the short work week set up through the
Black bill or any other means possible.
Coupled with this was the protest
against the unwillingness of employers
to allow labor to organize"
Proposal Of Boards.
Miss Perkins said the only item lack
ing complete unaninity of opinion
called for minimum wages, to be estab-
lished through labor boards set up by
congressional act, in industries which
are inadequately organized.
She explained these boards would have
power to fix and alter wages and hours,
setting up unemployment insurance or
reserves. The plan was advocated by
Sidney Hillman, head of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers. 1t is un-
derstood it provoked lively discussion in
the publicly barred conference room.
No agreement was reached
The cabinet official said the labor
leaders with overwhelming voice.
agreed that the Federal Government
could raise vast sums of money for the
public works program by selling baby"
bonds as Liberty bonds were sold.