Evening star., 1933-08-20
MICHIGAN SEEKING
TO PUT $1,000 MEN
BACK IN FACTORIES
Business Conditions in Ger
tain Sections Said to Be
Nearing Normal.
BY PERCY C. POWELL.

DETROIT, Mich. August 19.-Sixty
thousand unemployed men will be put to
work by September In 200 Michigan
factories which have adopted the N. r.
A. work schedule. according to state
ment issued this week by John L. Lovett,
general manager of the Michigan Man
ufacturers Association.
Lovett, who made personal survey,
said in certain sections conditions were
nearing normal. In the Marquette dis
trict, he said, as much iron ore was be-
ing shipped as in peak days, IN Grand
Haven there Is no unemployment. in
Muskegon only 1,600 men are out OF
work, In the Cadillac district logging
has begun after three years of idleness,
while a piston ring factory in Hastings
Is doing the largest business in history.
Attitude Seen Friendly.
The attitude Of a majority of manu-
facturers toward the N. r. A. was
friendly. Lovett reported, but all were
united in insisting the open shop would
continue.
Despite these reports of renewed busi-
ness activities, conditions as a whole,
and In Detroit in particular, remain
acute, he said When the $4,000 men
are returned to work there still will be
approximately 10000 unemployed as the
Fall approaches, according to Lovetts
figures.
Authorities are pinning hope on the
early adoption of a public works pro-
gram by Federal authorities as means
of alleviating this unemployment in
degree Functioning of the State Ad-
visory Board in a short time was fore
cast following the announcement at
Washington of appointment Of Mortimer
E. Cooley, former dean of the College
of Engineering in the University OF
Michigan. as engineer of the board.
Hope of the early reorganization Of
the two closed banks in Detroit was
dimmed during the week by issuance of
q terse statement in Washington by j.
F. T. O'Connor, controller Of currency.
saying no steps toward reorganization
would be taken by Federal authorities
until the one-man grand jury investiga-
tion of failures ended and litigation over
the 100 per cent assessment against
stockholders terminated.
Judge Harry B. Keidan, who has been
conducting the investigation. responded
instantly by calling his remaining wit
nesses, and the termination OF this
phase of the failures is in sight. End
ing litigation over the assessments will
Dt IlUlS VIC lhkOoAeAOAA
of the 100 per cent collections will re-
duce some of Detroit's wealthy citizens
into common. plug citizens. SO far as
material wealth is concerned.
Added to these troubles, those De-
troiters holding city bonds were advised
by letters during the week that because
of delinquent taxes and other financial
reverses all Detroit city bonds, except
water and street railway securities. were
in default The letters. signed by an au-
thorized Bondholders' Refunding Com
mittee, urged holders on the defaulted
list to turn in their securities to desig-
mated authorized agencies for the pur-
pose of receiving new refunding bonds.
To Attend Code Hearings
Representatives of the automobile in
dustry left for Washington early in the
week to prepare for the code hearings Of
the industry, which opened Friday. A
special invitation was issued to the Ford
interests to participate in the hearings.
When the committee left the members
had received no intimation as to the
Ford attitude toward the proposed code.
All were united in antagonism OF any
proposal which, in their opinion. would
force unionization of the industry's
workers.