Evening star., 1938-01-09
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

sN"AiS eIic 1dlAIodu industry as
one Of the two in which exist great
est possibilities for Unemployment and
expansion, the Senate Committee on
Unemployment is planning its most
intensive examination Of the coming
week for spokesmen of that industry.
Already scheduled to appear on
Wednesday are j. j. Pelley, president
of the Association of American Rail-
roads, and A. F. Whitney, Brother
hood OF Railway Trainmen, to present
both employer and employe views on
the problems of the industry.
Particularly interested in the wider
introduction of lightweight, high
speed equipment for railroads, the
committee also has asked Charles F..
Kettering, research director of Gen.
eral Motors Corp, to appear on
Wednesday, it was learned yesterday.
General Motors is now the principal
distributor of this type of rolling
stock, and it is the feeling of COM
mittee members that its more general
use would lead to greatly increased
buying of new rails and other equip
ment.
Du Pont to Appear.
Representatives of the building in
dustry are to be invited before the
committee during the week of Janu-
ary II, it was said. this being the
second field in which employment
stimulation is considered most needed
Tomorrow, the committee will turn
its attention to conditions in the
chemical and textile industries. Ap-
pearing for the former will be Lammot
du Pont chairman of the E. I. du Pont
de Nemours Co., one of the worlds
greatest manufacturers in the field of
chemicals and explosives. Speaking
for textiles will be Claudius T. Murch-
ison, president of the Textile Institute;
Robert E. Henry of the Southern Tex
tile Manufacturers Association, and
Russell Fisher of the American Cotton
Manufacturers Association
Changing their schedule slightly
the committee has moved the appear
ance of Secretary of Agriculture Wall
lace from Thursday to Tuesday with
that of John L. Lewis, invited for
Tuesday, not definite for that date
Other Tuesday witnesses will be Leon
ard P. Ayres of the Cleveland Trust
Co.. and Wilson Compton of the Ma
tional Lumber Manufacturers Associ-
alton.
May Make Report Soon.
Retail trade and machine industries
will be studied on Thursday and steel
and coal on Friday
Electrical machinery and public
utilities are to be subjected to ex-
animation during the following week,
with the committee hopeful of COM
pleting its initial set of hearings be-
fore the end of the month. At that
time it will be determined whether
economic conditions warrant an in
term report with recommendations
for immediate emergency action or
whether the summation of findings
and proposed governmental policy
may be deferred for submission as a
long-term proposition.
Thus far in its inquiry the COM
mittee has been impressed with the
sharp employment decline of the last
four months, with the automobile,
railroad and construction industries
being among those hit the hardest.
With many variations, principal rec
concentrations by witnesses during the
first week were for renewed Govern
ment spending on public works and
relief, extension of social security ben
efits on an emergency basis and mod
ification of the taxes on undistributed
corporate profits and capital gains.