Evening star., 1940-06-05
Extension Urged
Of Federal Part
In Industry
Government Official
Would Expand Work
To Find Jobs for All

To Find Jobs for All
Extension Of Government partici-
patton in industry to point where
jobs will be provided all unemployed
who are unable to find work in
private enterprises was advocated
today by E. A. Goldenweiser, director
of the Division of Research and
Statistics of the Federal Reserve
system.
Addressing the Interfaith Confer
ence on Unemployment, DR.. Golden
weiser made it clear he spoke as an
individual and not as an official of
the Federal Government
To effect such a vast Government
employment program, he said, the
Government must undertake socially
desirable, but commercially un-
profitable tasks on sufficiently large
and varied scale to absorb the un-
employed"
There are plenty such tasks"
DR.. GoldenWeiser declared, Just
now the outstanding one is national
defense"
The statistician placed the num-
ber Of unemployed at II 900 900 per-
sons. He said that Government
participation in economic activity
must be flexible"
Urges incentive Tax"
Another speaker, C. w. Hazelett
of New York, author and inventor
of labor saving machinery, suggested
an incentive tax as spur to Great
ing work for the unemployed. His
plan would impose high Federal
tax on business and individuals
holding in idleness important
amounts of money, machinery, land
and buildings.
Persons who "prattle" about the
heavy burdens of taxation were de-
scribed as silly" by DR.. Paul Stu
denski, professor of public finance
at New York University.
1--WE should stop worrying about
taxes" he told the conference. The
European states which were afraid
to tax their citizens and to borrow
money for preparedness at time
when taxing and borrowing would
have done some good no longer ex-
ist today"
DR.. Studenski advocated addi-
tional taxation and some further
loans to eliminate unemployment
and avoid the fate of European
states"
George Meeny, secretary -treasur-
er of the American Federation of
Labor told the conference last night
that ION the ability of the Ameri-
can people to end unemployment
depends the future course of our
Nation and the very survival of our
democratic institutions.
Program Offered.
He presented long-range seven
point program to lend the idleness
of workers. machines and capital"
and the No. point was an extern
sive public works program with i'm
mediate priority to national defense
needs.
Speaking for industry. Howard
Coonley, chairman of the Board of
Directors of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, declared:
Industry is eager to cooperate
and to be co-operated with, not only
for national defense but also for
mutual understanding and better
adjustments among all the inter-
ests concerned in our economic
life"
He said that Government spend
ing should be governed more by
the sources of income, the relative
value of services and the effect of
diversion from private channels of
expenditure.
Sees Practical Solution.
Discussing the problem of tech
biological displacement, Mr.. Coonley
said industry is confident that with
the cooperation of all interests con-
cerned we shall reach a practical
solution of this problem without
retarding the increase and improve
ment of our productive facilities"
The representative of Government
on last nights program was DR..
Mordecai Ezekiel, economic adviser
to the Secretary of Agriculture, who
warned that unless a program of
permanent full recovery" is put
in effect "the shifting from war de-
mands back to peace demands will
make the whole unemployment
problem more severe"
One point in his proposals to
effect a permanent recovery in
cluded steps to correct the effects
of full or partial monopoly on the
distribution of income.