COMMITTEE TO SPEND NOTHING TO AID JOBLESS
COMMITTEE TO SPEND NOTHING TO AID JOBLESS Co-ordination Will Be Program of Unemployment Body, Says Woods WASHINGTON. D. C—The new federal unemployment committee headed by Col. Arthur Wood of New...
...Woods is expected to make recommendations for a plan dividing the work and wages of those now employed to cover many of the idle, and to encourage local agencies to put into prompt operation their various plans for the construction of public works and other measures to give jobs to idle workers...
...It is the humanitarian duty of our government, cop true tors, manufacturers, jobbers, public utilities, retailers, business men and other employers to take cognizance of the seriousness of the situation confronting our city and institute such immediate measures as will alleviate and stave off a further Increase in unemployment," the resolution states...
...The principle part of our work Is co-operating with local organizations," said Col...
...At its initial meeting, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis told the committee that new inventions and transportation processes are partly responsible for the present unemployment problem and recommended that the committee have a survey made to determine to what extent this is true...
...The city council asks employers to install the four or five-day week without wage reductions to assist unemployed...
...CITY BODY ASKS FOR 5 DAY WEEK MINNEAPOLIS, Minn...
...Employers are urged to take advantage of present, low interest rates and Immediately construct plant expansion that may be contemplated within the next, lew years...
...BUSINESS PROFITS BIG DURING WARS WASHINGTON, D. C—The relation of business to war was indicated by Assistant Secretary of War Payne in an addrets to the Society of Industrial Engineers He said that the army's purchase the first of "srb future, major conflict" will exceced $10,000,000...
...Woods, however, is known to have more defmite plans for employment relief, especially in co-ordinating the work of other bodies and organizing their work...
...We are going at the problem of unemployment with all the energy and vigor that we can summon, and we shall try to put into operation every factor for relief...
...Upon arriving at Washington last week...
...The best we can do Is to let various places know what others are doing as a guide for their own efforts...
...Arthur Wood of New York City began its operations this week with the announcement that no further expenditures by the federal government will be made but that the committee will merely seek to co-ordinate relief work now being done by local agencies...
...Woods immediately had a conference with President Hoover, and several meetings of the committee were held...
...The committee under the direction of Col...
Vol. 1 • November 1930 • No. 48
