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...convention of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen at Houston last week Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak pulled from his pocket an old, flat, Irish potato. This, he announced, was his "magic potato." It brought him good luck. Said he: "It is even good for neurasthenia...
Secretary of Labor Doak had good reason last week to be glad of a "magic potato." Throughout the land the following events were taking place...
Vhen President Hoover last month vetoed the Wagner Bill to set up newer and larger machinery to co-ordinate State and Federal job-finding bureaus, he declared that its provisions could not be made effective for months or years. Last week, however, Secretary of Labor Doak announced a complete reorganization of the U. S. Employment Service along lines which strikingly resembled those set forth in the measure of the Democratic Senator from New York...
...plan, said Secretary Doak: "The U. S. Employment Service has decided to open at least one employment bureau in each of the States and the District of Columbia to cooperate with State and local authorities. ... It likewise will cooperate in the broadest sense to take care of interstate labor placements in co-operation with employers and employes...
...Still under fire for his veto of the Wagner bill, President Hoover last week appointed John R. Alpine of New York, an A. F. of L. man, as special assistant to Secretary of Labor Doak to expand the existing Federal Employment service with an extra $500,000 allowed by Congress. Meanwhile Secretary Doak, reporting an increase in February employment over January, declared: "It looks to me like the first sign of a general pick-up in industry...