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bonus charges to meet first mortgage or
tax demands, inability to meet the sec
ond home mortgage and the home is
lost
This condition has discouraged
home ownership and brought about al
most complete prostration in the wide
range of industries depending for their
prosperity upon residential building
industries which account in the aggre-
gate for millions of the unemployed.
Legislative measures now under con-
sideration to prevent foreclosures on
urban homes will afford a respite of
real value to home owners and should
be used to build up the standards of fair
mortgage practice in normal as well as
emergency periods. The home owners
equity in his home will be strengthened
by building up voluntary agreements
This can only be done by getting the
parties concerned in the contract
together
Essential to a successful achieve
ment of this task is clear recognition of
the fact that the problem of home
mortgage finance involves not alone the
savings invested in the 10, 500 900 urban
homes occupied by their owners, but the
savings of countless thousands who have
are drawing insurance and annuitieS
derived from mortgage investments
This is problem calling for collected
action, not new in principle but new in
objective"
Green asserted that labor urges the
application of the 6-hour day and s.
day week in both public and private
employment as practical and con-
Structive remedy for unemployment. He
said labor was convinced that the OBJ
Servance of one day of rest in seven no
longer needs economic and social re-
quirements.
He declared it was obviously impos-
sible to overcome unemployment with
out restoring to the masses a buying
power corresponding with the facilities
of industrial production. He emphasized
that buying power can only be estab-
lished through increasing wages.
Labor and Planning.
He said labor recommended the de-
velopment of national economic plan
ming, directly aimed at the raising of
standards of living, and that the Fed
eral Government set an example to
out of which a dismissal wage should
be paid to those dropped from the
service. He further recommended that
a Federal agency be created for the
express purpose Of collecting data as
to man hours work available, as to
wage earners' income. and provide
standards for determined economic poll
cieS.
The collapse Of our public schools
throughout the country is one of the
most alarming manifestations of the
depression" Green said in conclusion
Thousands of schools have already
closed for the year; major curtailments
have occurred in school work in 80
States. In a number of places schools
are being kept open by unpaid teachers
and by tuition fees. During this emer-
gency when, due to tax delinquencies,
States and municipalities cannot meet
their vitally essential programs, the
credit of the United States should be
extended to enable them to maintain
their public schools, as that credit is
now extended to private industry"
Call by Miss Perkins.
The call for the series of conferences
was issued by Miss Perkins after Presi-
dent Roosevelt last week summoned
Secretaries Dern, Ickes. Wallace and
Perkins to the White House for an un-
employment relief discuss ion with men,
berS of the Senate and House Commit
tees on Education and Labor.
The White House parley WaS~held at
the request of Senator Walsh of MaSSa-
chuSetts because of complications aris-
ing on Capitcl Hill over the reforestation
MEASURE. The four cabinet members
will be responsible for carrying out the
provisions of the measure, the heavier
task falling on Miss Perkins, who will
be directly responsible for employment
of the 250,000 workers fer reforestation
work.
Immediately following the White
House conference Miss Perkins sent out
her call for series of executive meet
ings to discuss unemployment relief.
The conferences agenda calls for dis
cusslcn OF a program of public works;
short hours as a means of further
employment, which will include such
discussions as one day Of rest in seven;
short hours or short week, or both, and
the best methods CT achievement. In
the latter connection Federal legislation,
State legislation, contracts and COM
pactS between the States will be con-
Sidered
The question of wages, to be brought
about by legislation or by joint action
OF employers and employees. by some
governmental machinery such as boards
to regulate wages, or by fixing of wages
in governmental purchase contracts
also will be discussed.
Miss Perkins SAID discussion of pro-
gram OF permanent improvement of la
Dor and industrial standards was neceS-
sary because there is a grave danger
lest the depression and unemployment
may have caused a lowering of indus
trial standards which will be felt for
years to come"
She said she would urge the con-
ferees to discuss at length formulation
OF industrial standards to assure wage
earnerS who are still employed a con-
structive standard of living and work
ing conditions.
Miss Perkins also asked the con-
ferees to make study of labor's rela-
ton to industrial reconstruction such
as railroad organization; extent of
shrinkage OF capitalization in basic
industries; provisions for old age and
prevention Of child labor and arrange
mentS Tor employment exchanges.
One OF the first labor leaders to arrive
at the Labor Department Building to-
day for the conference was President
William Green Of the American Fedora
ton of Labor 1t marked the first meet
ing of Green and Miss Perkins since the
latter entered President Roosevelt's
cabinet over the protest of the Fedora
tion chief
Green entered the conference room
with recommendations of all questions
to be submitted at the parley The
recommendations we're drafted yesterday
at a conference held by labor chieftains
with Green in the American Federation
Of Labor Building.
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