Evening star., 1933-03-17
JOBLESS RELIEF
-PARLEY TO OPEN
Jeint Committee on Unem-
pIoyment to Meet at AM
baSSador Hotel.

Plans for a campaign to bring about
the immediate enactment by Congress
Of the program on unemployment OF the
Joint Committee on Unemployment Will
be discussed at an all-day conference to
be held by the committee tomorrow in
the Ambassador Hotel.
The conference, after morning and
afternoon sessions, will close with a
dinner at the Cosmos Club at p.m
at which some SO members of the Sen
ate and House are expected to be guests
of honor.
The call for the conference, issued
here by Prof. John Dewey. chairman OF
the committee, and DR.. Sidney E. Gold
stein, chairman Of the Executive Com
mittee of the group quotes the state
ment of President Roosevelt in his in
auguraA address that, important though
other issues may be, more important is
the host of unemployed citizens who
face the grim problem of existence and
an equally great number who toll with
out return"
To Hear Farm and Labor.
At the morning session, beginning at 10
o'clock, representatives of farm and
labor organizations, in cooperation with
members of the IA organizations COM
pOoAlS tllC JOulI SOIlllliAtoCC, "liA AAoSuco
the need for congressional action.
Among the leaders Of the discussion will
be Fred Brenckman, Washington repre-
sentative Of the National Grange;
Chester H. Gray. Washington repre-
sentative of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, and DR.. Goldstein.
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch of New
York will speak on enlisting women in
the campaign for congressional action
at the afternoon session, beginning at
$3.50 o'clock. Karl Borders of Chicago,
chairman of the Unemployed Workers
League, will discuss the work of that
organization.
From S to 5:45 pm. the National
the Blue Network addresses by Rev.
r. A. MCGOWAN of the National Catho-
lie Welfare Council; DR.. Edward l..
Israel, chairman of the Commission
on Social Justice Of the Central Con-
ference of American Rabbis; DR.. Gold
stein and Prof. Jerome Davis, director
OF the Church and Labor Foundation.
Speakers Subjects.
At the dinner speakers and subjects
will be: Senator Hugo L. Black of
Alabama, The Thirty-hour Week" ;
Prof. Joseph McGoldrick Of Columbia
University, Taxation and Revenue;
rev. James myers, director OeparCmenC
Industrial Relations, Federal Council of
Churches in Christ, THE Too Young
in Employment" Dr. Abraham Epstein,
secretary the American Association for
Old Age Security, THE Too Old in
Employment" and Edward F. McGrady,
legislative representative the American
Federation of Labor, "Labor's Unem-
ployment Program for Congress"
The vice chairmen of the Joint Com
mittee on Unemployment are Mrs. Har-
riot Stanton Blatch, Mrs. Ethel Clyde,
Mrs. John Haynes Holmes, Bishop
Francis J. Mcconnell, Father John A.
Ryan, Norman Thomas, Rabbi Stephen
s. Wise; the secretary, Miss Mary Fox.
Among the organizations composing
the committee are Church League for
Industrial Democracy. Conference for
Progressive Labor Action, Fellowship of
Reconciliation, Labor Bureau, Inc,
League for Independent Political Ac-
ton, League for Industrial Democracy,
National Unemployment League Peo-
pies Lobby, Social Service ComFlission
of Central Conference of Rabbis. Meth
odist Federation for Social Service,
Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit As
SOciation,