Woods's Week

Col. Arthur Woods, President Hoover's director of unemployment relief, last week:

P: Telephoned from Washington to each & every state governor. He found 44 of them in, talked to underlings of the other four. It took him twelve hours to make the rounds. He asked the governors how they were coming on in combating joblessness, learned most of them were coming on satisfactorily.

P: Broadcast a five-minute speech to all U. S. mayors. He asked them to let him know how they were coming on.

P: Traveled to New York to vote the Republican ticket, and back to Washington again.

P: Boosted Cincinnati's unemployment relief plan as a model for other big cities.

P: Appointed Lewis H. Brown, president of Johns-Manville, to be "industrial coordinator of manufacturing" in the East; William Phillips of Boston, onetime U. S. Minister to Canada, to be regional relief director in New England; Captain J F. Lucey of Dallas to be regional relief director in the Southwest.

P: Reported: "Massachusetts wants jobs, not breadlines."

P: Received a proposal from Thomas Dunbar Green, president of American Hotels Association, that hotels throughout the land donate a daily quota of soup and bread to hungry jobless.

P: Called a meeting of President Hoover's Unemployment Committee in an effort to ascertain the exact number of jobless throughout the land as of Nov. 1 (President Hoover's last estimate: 3.500.000).

Other developments of the week:

P: In New York City where police listed 30,297 destitute families, Banker Seward Prosser raised the first $1,000,000 of the $6,000,000 which his Emergency Employment Committee is soliciting from Big Businessmen to keep 13.500 at work through the winter on non-profit jobs at $3 per day.

P: New York Central R. R. took back 5,300 shop workers, the New York, New Haven & Hartford, 1,750. Chicago & Northwestern, 3.800.

P: In Omaha the Cudahy Packing plant went on a five-day week.

P: In Chicago where jobless registration commenced, where "70.000 Destitute" are advertised in flashing lights in Michigan Boulevard, work for 18,000 was provided by the Governor's unemployment commission. The work: scrubbing up the city for the Century of Progress Exposition (1933).

P: The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad formed a jobless relief committee in charge of a vice president to care for onetime employes.

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