Unemployment in the United States

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Identifikator:: 1828236179

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-226169

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Unemployment in the United States

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: United States, Government Printing Office

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: II, 193 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Mr. William Green, president of American Federation of Labor

Collection:: Economics Books

UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 25 McGhee v. Mathis (4 Wall. 143-153) ; Federal Aid Legislation, by Prof. Charles K. Burdick (8 Cornell Law Quarterly); and Spending Power of Congress, by Prof. Edward 8S. Corwin (36 Harvard Law Review 548). In considering the bill, to provide for the establishment of a na- tional employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes, it is important to ascertain: . First. Whether the employment situation is a question of national Importance. Second. Whether the employment situation, if found to be of national importance, is such as to justify and warrant legislation by Congress to establish an agency having for its purpose the bringing about of stabilized employment and to aid workers in obtaining employment. Third. Whether or not such legislation is constitutional. That the employment situation is a matter of national importance is clear when we consider the situation now existing in England and the continental countries, the vast numbers of the unemployed in those countries, the lengths to which England has been compelled to go in an endeavor to provide for the existing conditions, and the vast amount of money she has been compelled to appropriate and expend in an endeavor to ameliorate the circumstances of the unem- ployed. It is not necessary to cite any facts to stress the importance of this question to the United States and the States, and the necessity and demand for remedial legislation, other than those set out in the testimony before the Senate committee and the public address and memorandum of Senator Wagner, above referred to. It must be admitted that the employment situation is one of national importance. Conditions of to-day have materially changed from those of years ago, and the employee can no longer limit himself to any one city, country, or State in seeking work for his livelihood, but must, if he is to secure employment, look, from time to time, to the country as a whole and ascertain in what particular part of the country he can find employment. The individual States have not undertaken to collaborate with their sister States and with the Federal Government to such an ex- teat as to bring about a proper coordination for obtaining the best results from a national aspect. To accomplish this end there must be some center—that is, there must be some clearing house—and the best and only way to secure this is by Federal legislation establish- ing a Federal agency which shall cooperate with and aid the States in the endeavor to solve the all-important question of unemploy- ment, so far as the individual States are willing to cooperate through their own legislatures. The importance of the question of employment is admitted in the brief of the National Association of Manufacturers filed in opposi- tion to the Senate bill 3060 and above referred to. * This brief states, page 1, that the association and its members are “vitally interested mm employment problems, and, individually and in cooperation, are continually engaged in the study and exchange of information and experience for the purpose of securing a better regularization of employment.” The brief, therefore, concedes that the study of employment problems and the exchange of information and experience upon these

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