Show Ij I How One City Solves Unemployment 1 Y V Ma Mayor Maor or of Portland Ore PORTLAND Ore Nov ov 2 Is a disease disease disease-an an unhealthy condition which nobody wants Being undesirable ft can be bo eliminated to H t great extent b bv by concerted effort on the part of the people of a city This This's 4 s 's the theory Portland has worked Vo-ke on in the last six or eight j years ears with the result that wo have ha avoided serious serious' trouble To lay down any set rules for meet meet- ing hig Ingan an unemployment problem 11 li I-i m m- m possible be because ause conditions differ in indifferent indifferent Indifferent different localities and conditions differ differ dif dif- df- df fer In the tho same locality from year vear to year In the great Northwest where lumbering lum him bering Is one of the principal industries industries indus indus- tries the winter months force lo lagging In gin I camps ramps to close with x of workmen to the cities Our Our- problem problem lem therefore is that of ot seasonable Un unemployment employment Nine Aft ft of ten 1 Nine Aft ft of ten 1 persons out have civic and nine out of ot ten ae in sympathy sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy with any movement which means the relief of a condition where people are in need and especially when there are children Involved It Itis Itis is from this basic fact that Portland has worked In Its fights against unemployment un nfl- f employment ment We Ve have found that when there Is actual suffering it Is not a difficult task To get employ employers ers of labor to additional work such as IncreaseS In- In creaseS productions etc which ordinarily would be done In the summer months To get home owners and residents to provide e work cleaning basements yards and doing other kinds pf work wItch can be done In winter as well as in summer i 0 of To get city county count other governmental agencies to concentrate en public improvements In the rather than In the summer I S To get industries to divide employment employment employ employ- I ment merit among a great num number er of cit people thereby not confining the unemployment ment to a certain few PUBLIC SUPPORT To meet an unemployment problem requires first the support of ot the pub pub- lie lic With this support It Is easy to devise schemes for providing pro employment employment employment em em- enough to prevent actual suffering On several occasions w hwe augmented ang- ang the general campaign Alon along these lines by the establishment of or camps where men men are employed cutting cutting cut cut- ting cordwood for fuel and In e lalm- lalm Ing old furniture shoes clothing etc These things are started usually to provide employment for tor single le men and men of the floating population type Che he he other work Is held for our own pc people ople and people with families The emergency work is on the basis or of the thel j l' l f.- f. I J 5 |