WORKLESS AMERICANS

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17877, 25 November 1929, Page 5

WORKLESS AMERICANS

POLICY OF ABSORPTION. MANY NATIONAL UNDERTAKINGS. APPEAL TO STATE GOVERNORS. United' Press Assn. —Eiec. Tel.—Copyright WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. The President, Mr Hoover, to-day conferred with the heads of the construction industries, who told him there would be at least £220,000,000 expended in Stale and Federal road building, with a further £220,000,009 spent by counties and municipalities', not including other public and private construction work. The railway managers at Chicago telegraphed saying they would buy more than 2,500,000 tons of steel in the coming year. Mr Hoover’s Law Enforcement Commission has undertaken a national survey of “'the effect of slums upon crime, with the Idea of building programmes for congested city districts. Apparently the President’s conferences are having a widespread effect and are increasing public confidence in a continuance of prosperity. The President’s appeal has been sent to the Governors of all the States, asking them to follow the example of the Federal Government In speeding up the necessary construction work, to absorb the unemployed and contribute to the nation's consuming power. The President says the Federal Government Is prepared to exert itself to the utmost within Its own province, and it desires the co-operation of the other authorities in a similar endeavour. ‘