2. The immediate creation of a special board made up of the properly qualified officials from the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Interior, and Labor, and from the Board of Army Engineers to prepare plans for performing the largest possible amount of public work during the winter, and to devise a program for the future for performing, during periods of depression, such public work as road building, construction of public building, reforestation, irrigation, and drainage of swamps. The success attending the construction of the Panama Canal indicates the enormous national construction works which might be done to the advantage of the entire nation during such periods of depression. Similar boards or commissions should be established in the various states and municipalities. 3. The Interstate Commerce Commission should be directed by Congress to investigate and report the most feasible plan of providing for the transportation of workers at the lowest reasonable rates, and, at the same time, measures necessary to eliminate the stealing of rides on railways. If special transportation rates for workers are provided, tickets may be issued only to those who secure employment through public employment agencies. 4. The establishment by states, municipalities, and, through the Department of Labor, the federal government, of sanitary workingmen’s hotels in which the prices for accommodations shall be adjusted to the cost of operation. If such workingmen’s hotels are established, the Post Office Department should establish branch postal savings banks in connection therewith. 5. The establishment by the municipal, state, and federal governments of colonies or farms for “down-and-outs” in order to rehabilitate them by means of proper food, regular habits of living and regular work that will train them for lives of usefulness. Such colonies should provide for hospital treatment of cases which require it. THE CHICAGO PLAN FOR THE HOMELESS MAN For the local situation and for such action as lies in the hands (_a_) of the citizens of this community, (_b_) of the city of Chicago, (_c_) of Cook County, and (_d_) of the state of Illinois, this committee recommends: I. AS A PROGRAM FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION-- 1. _The establishment of a Municipal Clearing House for Non-Family Men._ _a_) _Purpose_: i) To provide facilities for the registration, examination, classification, and treatment of homeless migratory and casual workers in order, on the basis of individual case-study. ii) To secure by reference to the appropriate agency emergency relief, physical and mental rehabilitation, industrial training, commitment to institutional care, return to legal residence, and satisfactory employment.