The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-28

elimination of grade crossings.
2. National housing, including slum
clearance, subsistence homestead, re-
Mobilization, and low cost housing
projects.
3. Water projects, including water
supply, sewage treatment, flood con-
troll, irrigation, soil erosion prevention,
and hydro-electric power developments.
Rural identification.
Secretary of Labor Perkins, a men,
Der of the board, has said that if its
recommendations are carried out, all
unemployment will be eliminated for the
next 25 years. These, she says, are
the results that might be expected:
1. Provide much greater develop
ment of water resources.
2. Stop menace of floods.
8. Stop soil erosion.
4. Remove all marginal or SUBJ
marginal lands from attempted produc-
ton.
B.. Stop waste of mineral re-
sources and substitute national policy
of conservation.
6. Create great new recreational
acres.
7. Assemble basic data for map
ping, public finance and population,
necessary for national planning, with
a middecennial census in 1885.
8. Coordinate socially-useful fed
eral, state and municipal public works.
9. Provide for continuous long
range planning Of land, water and
mineral resources Sin relation to each
other and to the larger background
of the social and economic life in
which they are set"
The boards report does not suggest
that the government spend the $105-
OOOOOO,O0O involved, but recommends
a national plan Of co-ordinating fed
eral construction projects with state
and local undertakings. 1t also recon-
mends a public works reserve" Of
S10,000,0O0,000 to take up the slack
of construction in periods Of depres-
sion, but does not suggest where such
q fund-more than one-third Of the
total national debt-could be obtained.
IRON his economic security adj
l. visory committee the President re-
ceived a recommendation for an IN
employment insurance system based
upon contributions from employers
through a pay roll tax; and also three
proposed plans for old age pensions
submitted for his consideration.
1t was recommended that payments
to workers who become jobless should
be so per cent Of their pay but pay
ments were not to be less than $15 per
week for % weeks in the year. States
would be permitted to set higher
standard if they wished.
A waiting period" of from two to
four weeks between the time worker
lost his job and the time insurance
payments started was provided for.
TIVE years ago 1t was asserted that
l. the steel industry was far overbuilt.
But its general program for 1885 build
ing is now made public, showing that
1t plans the expenditure of 100000
600 for new equipment. This includes
the Ford Motor company's 100000
program, already described In this col
umn. Other items are: The United
States Steel corporation has pledged
S40,OOO,OOO worth of modernization in
the coming year.
The National Steel corporation has
announced a $12,OOO,O00 expansion for
its subsidiary, the Great Lakes Steel
corporation.
Carnegie Steel is building 42-inch
hot strip mill at Youngstown, Ohio.
and Bethlehem is planning a 60-inch
hot strip mill for its Lackawanna
works at Buffalo.
Youngstown Steel and Tube COM
pany is completing 100000 mill at
its Campbell (Ohio) works. and nearby
the Republic Steel corporation is
spending $4,000 for a new electric
weld tube mill building.
CD ALANCED abundance" is the
ID keynote sounded in the program
offered by Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace in his annual report. Con-
WINGED that agriculture should be
brought under permanent federal con-
troll, he will ask congress for drastic
new legislation. This will include broad
amendments to the AAA, great extern
sion of the grain futures act and pas
sage of the Tugwell food and drugs
bill. While he insists on continuance
of crop control, Mr.. Wallace advises
against falling into the pit of scare
ity economics; nevertheless, he de-
tends the working of the AAA reduc-
ton schemes to date. ~
He sees ''the end of our period of
emergency adjustments, of drastic re-
duction in farm output coming into
view.". Hereafter. the task may in
clude adjustment of production to a
rising demand, he says. To this end, as
a safeguard against the effects of crop
failure In the future, the secretary de-
velops his proposal for IAN ever nor
NAL granary." Larger reserves against
crop failure would be maintained
These, he believes. should remain in
the control of the farmers, through
storage and government loan arrange
ments. coupled with an obligation to
participate in continued crop adjust