PRESIDENT CALLS FOR CONFERENCE ON UNEMPLOYMENT
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On August 28, 1921, the New York Tribune reports that President Warren G. Harding "stepped into the middle of the unemployment problem and will undertake to place as many men as is humanely possible in the various industries...by the winter months."
The Secretary of Labor, James J. Davis*, has advised the unemployment totals have reached 5,735,000. In response, the President called for a national conference on unemployment to be held here in the Nation's Capital. The request was made through Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover who said...
"The object of the conference will be to inquire into the volume of needed employment, the distribution of unemployment, (and) to make recommendations (on)...speeding up of employment."
*James John Davis (1873-1947) was born in U.K. & served as Secretary of Labor under Harding & Coolidge, 1921-1930. JJD was a puddler's^ assistant in a steel mill before entering public service. He was known as the "Iron Puddler."
^Puddling is a step in the manufacture of high grade iron invented in Great Britain.
SOURCE
"Harding Calls Conference to Help Jobless," The New York Tribune, August 29, 1921, www.chroniclingamerica.com/
