Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1931, Page 53

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THE EVENING 600000 WILL LOSE JOBS IN NOVEMBER 480,000 of Number Will Be From Farms, Green Estimates. The customary Pall decrease in em- ployment will result in 600,000 persons being made jobless during November. 480,000 of them something is done to in work, Willlam Gre the American Pederati in a statement issued October reports fro g>nizations of the said. show that membershin of the federa of work during the firs month, Indicating an incr empioyment as compared with for August and September An unemployment increase of two- tenths of 1 per cent at this time of the year is not unusual,” Green declared “A stmilar increase occurred in October even in the normal year of 1928. But 1! unemployment continues to increase ¢ this rate we shall have 7.000.000 per- sons out of work by January next October Brings No Change. “While some 30,000 persons lost their 4obs in industry in October, farmers ook on more workers this month to help with the harvesting of grain and other crops. Some 40,000 more were employed on farms. Thercfore our esti- mate of the total n 7 in- schedule, In September 18 per cent of the membership was reported on part time. in October 19 per cent, This in- crease in part-time work is a heaithy - sign in & period when unemployment is TARZAN AT THE EARTH'S CORE. av seemed an interminacie period of time to Jason Gridley, the gloomy forest sun shimmering upon & broad lake American beheld about its shores throngs of Horibs. Nome of them secmed to dis- play the slightest interest in the prisoners brought Several of dragged Jason and Thoar from their mounts proached, the into their midst the queer cavalcade emerged frcm Then he saw the never moving As they ap- his captive's him. An ir the warrior Horibs foremost into the wat and three Korsars Now Jason Gr - edge of the lake toward n was horrified at the ‘The Horib in charge of f hand tightly over Then he dove head g his victim with ree other Horibs dove in similar fate with Thoar. dle; d. D. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3 1931, With s superhuman effort Jason sought to tear himself free from the clutches of his captor. cold, clammy hands held him tightly. was suddenly clapped over his mouth and nose and an instant later he felt the warm waters of the lake close about him. Still he struggled to free himself as the Horlb carried him swiftly beneath the surface. Presently he feit slimy mud beneath him along which his body was dragged. The One of them the usual Fall increase in unemploy- ment. Every Effort Urged. “Now is the time to put forth every | effort to keep men at work. Labor's It seems likely that an effort | 15 being made to keep men at work at least part time, for up to October our figures had shown a more than norma! increase in unemployment which had | not been offset by an increase in P-n—ume work, Therefore, it seems ikely that if more part-time work had | not been given in October the unem- | ployers in the United States were to ployment. greater. n November we expect 600,000 per- sons to lose their jobs (480,000 will be 1aid off on farms and 118,000 in indus- try) unless something is done to prevent emergency program for employment this Winter should be put into effect imme- diately. “1. Maintain w buying power will es so that workers' kept up and the demand for goods sustained and em- | ployment will not fall to lower levels It is encouraging to note that from Jan- uary to September 15 this year only one worker in ten has had his wages re- duced. according to Labor Department reports from 15,000 manufacturing plants. “2. Shorten work hours £o that avail- workers, There is actually hours' work a week for each of the wage earners who want work in the United States today. “3. Assure employment to minimum work forces from November to April. Ask Additional Workers. “4. Each employer to take on addi- tional workers. If the 3,000,000 em- increase would have been | give work to only one extra worker on | the average, half of those out of work | would be employed “5. Create work through public un- dertakings. “6. Strengthen employment agencies. | reported an improvement. | today “7. Keep young persons in school to avoid their competing for jobs “8. Give preference to workers with dependents. “g. Secure financial relief from public and private funds to take care of thoee for whom no work can be found. “Our report for cities shows unem- ployment increasing in 15; only 8 cities In Balti- more and Minneapolis the increas the number out of work has been lar in Pittsburgh and San Antoni building trades have suffered especially with mcre than 50 per cent increase in unemployment. Unemployment is most serious in Detroit, Baltimore, Chi: Cleveland. Philadelphia, Jer Buffalo, New York and Los Angeles the order of their listing. In each of these cities over 35 per cent are out of worl il Booxevelt Back in San Juan. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, October 29 (#).—Gov. Theodore Rocsevelt returned from the United States, where he conferred with President Hoover He spent last night at Santo Domingo and came on this morning by airplane President Cosgrave of the Trish Free State has issued an appeal to the peo- ple of his country to buy home-manu- factured goods when possible and after that to purchase British goods. MARY PICKFORD FILM GREEN “AND YOUNG ON AlR ‘wm Broadeast Sunday Night on Wants to Return to Class of Roles Which Made Her Famou:. Doug Has New Picture. Br the Associated Press. ANGELES, October 30.—Mary on her departure for New with Douglas Fairbanks dis- closed that she s considering a return to the Pickford pictures of old, not ex- those of famous successes as a Ue girl,” but pictures in which she will be & bit older, possibly in the late | | "teens or early twenties. “I am most anxious to do a feature to bring back tbe audiences of chil- | dren, which in the past few years so | definitely have fallen away from mo- | tion pictures,” she said. The trip to New York will be in the nature of a search for some vehicle of this type. Her husband will complete final plans in New York for the show- ing of a film in which re will be seen | for the first time outside the role of a player of fiction. The film will be a trip around the world and will show a famous actor engaged in bringing smen NEW YORK, October 29 (#).—Wil- | liam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, Young, chairman of the Committee on Mobilization _of speak over a Nation-wide radio hook-up Sundly nlzhl in the third program 734 10th St. N.W. banks’ pkturo will be released | L i Employment Aid Program. | and Owen D.| Relief Sources, will Stnrtennt Blowers For Burning Buckwheat Coal Cut Your 0, Fuel Bill... 40/0 Fries, Beall & Sharp NA. 1964 Now Only New York By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Jason’s lungs cried out for air, his senses reeled and for a moment all went black before his eyes. Tben the hand was removed from his mouth, and gasping for air, he malized he was not drowned. 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