The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-22
Extend JobIess Aid, Advertise All
Jobs, Government Advisors Urqe
Washington (LPA)-Bring more

Washington (LPA)-Bring more
workers under unemployment in
surance coverage, get an intensive
job-finding campaign under way in
areas hard hit by layoffs, and get
Congress and state legislatures to
appropriate enough money accom-
plish these ends, the Federal Ad-
visory Council of the Labor De-
lpartment's Bureau of Employment
Security recommended after two
day conference here.
The council, composed of repre-
sentatives of labor, management,
veterans and the public, embodied
it's program in a series of resolu-
tions probing deeply into the pro-
blems of joblessness and unempoly-
ment insurance. 1t pointed out that
3,500,0O0 employees of firms with
fewer than eight workers and 600,-
600 employees of non-profit organ
izations are not covered by federal
social security and urged that leg
islation be broadened to include
them.
In support of the recommenda-
tion, the council said that II states
have legislation covering one-em-
ploye establishments and that six
states and Hawaii have laws COW
ering many if not all employees of
non-proft employers. The difficult
administrative problems supposed
ly raised by this extended cover
age never have appeared, the coun-
Gil said.
Unemployment insurance ha S
been a major factor in staving off
a serious depression this year, the
council agreed. However, the men,
bers suggested that study should
be made of how many workers ex-
haust their benefits completely be-
fore obtaining new employment,
and said that the wage basis for
unemployment insurance should be
brought in line with that for old
age and survivors insurance.
The council thought that there
should be an intergrated federal,
state and local program of en-
ployment planning. Maximum en-
ployment committees" should be
organized at state and local levels,
the council said, to bring the en-
tire resources of the community to
bear to meet dangerous unemploy-
ment situations where they exist.
Labor, veteran, welfare, business
and civic groups should be called
upon to participate in the program,
and job opportunity data should
be collected and widely dissemin-
ated.
The council conferred with Sec
retary of Labor Tobin, Robert c.
Goodwin, director of the Bureau of
Employment Security and other
Labor Department officials. 1t COM
mended the Bureau of Employment
Security for it's effort to provide
opportunities to all
them irrespective of race,
creed and color" and urged extern
sion of that principle throughout
the country.
Labor members of the council
include John Brophy, Industrial
Union Councils; Harry Boyer, pre-
sident of the Pennsylvania Indus
trial Union Council; James Nc
Dewitt, president of the Pennsy-
lvania Federation of Labor; H. L.
president of the Natl
Farm Laborers Union-AFL; Paul
Sifton, legislative representative of
the United Auto Workers; Kath-
crime Ellickson, assistant research
director of the CIO; James Brown
low, secretary-treasurer of the
Metal Trades Dep't-AFL; Joseph
secretary-treasurer of the
Federation of Labor;
and Frank Hoffman, legislative dir
ector of the United Steelworkers.