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Show uu GOVERNMENT TO AID UNEMPLOYED Washington, July 6. An interdepartmental interde-partmental committee named by Sec-rotary Sec-rotary of the Interior Lane and Secretary Secre-tary of Labor Wilson is at work on a plan to relieve unemployment, under un-der which the federal government would finance workers desiring to take up farm land. A complete programme pro-gramme with preliminary drafts of necessary legislation is to be framed before congress in connection with a rural credits bill which the administration adminis-tration is expected to press at that time. Tho committee, which Includes officials of-ficials of the general land office, the reclamation service and the department depart-ment of labor, was appointed specifically specific-ally to consider means of broadening the scope of the federal employment bureau In the department of labor, and It had the co-operation of officials of the postoffice department and the department of agriculture. The plan now under consideration contemplates a system of farm credits operating through the department of labor which would enable workers in congested cities to take up agricultural agricul-tural land on government reclamation projects, or public lands, on -easy payment pay-ment loans. President Wilson in a message to the final session of the last congress regretted re-gretted the Impossibility of the passage pas-sage of a rural credits bill at that time, and it has been generally believed be-lieved that he will recommend some action on the subject next winter. |