34 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES

Mr. GREEN. Just that slight improvement, and that is perhaps due
fo seasonal conditions.
Mr. MonTAGUE. Are your figures controverted by any department
of the Government?
Mr. GREEN. These are our own figures gathered by our own
statistical department.
Mr. MonTAGUE. I do not mean that. I mean does the Secretary
of Labor, for instance, agree with your figures? Does he accept your
figures as to the number of unemploved as being correct?
Mr. GreEN. No; except as——
Mr. MonTAGUE (interposing). The statement has been given out
by the Secretary of Labor that there is a gradual diminution in
unemployment.
Mr. Green. I think so. I think those figures show a slight
diminution, the difference between 3,600,000 and 3,700,000.
Mr. CeLLer. What loss of wages does that unemployment for the
month of May represent?
Mr. GREEN. About 20 per cent.
Mr. Cerner. Twenty per cent of the number, or in dollars?
Mr. Green. Twenty per cent: there are 20 per cent of the workers
unemployed.
Mr. CeLLEr. But I say what is the loss in wages?
Mr. Green. I think I have that here in my prepared statement
that I am going to follow along. T have some more information
along that line.
Mr. Hammer. Mr. Green, just one question. I did not get in to
hear all of your statement. I find among the unemployed taxi drivers
and such hike, and I found one the other day and he said he was discharged
 with five thousand more by the Pennsylvania Railroad some
time ago. I told him I hoped we could remedy the matter and understood
 1t was getting better. He said, “Oh, yes; the Labor Department
 says so, but they don’t know,” and he said the newspapers tried
to boost good times and I asked him if he thought anything could be
done. He said he had doubts about legislation. This was an ignorant
 man, you understand, but what I am asking is for information
for people who do not know as much as you do. How would you
expect to remedy the situation by reason of the depressed conditions
where a railroad discharges as many employees as the Pennsylvania
and some other roads have? How would this remedy that?
Mr. GrrEN. There are a number of things that must be done.
The plans we propose are only partial remedies for the unemployment
situation. In my own judgment, private industry must face its
responsibilities and there must be better planning and better regularization
 of employment, a better system of employment; that is, the
private employers must realize there is an obligation resting upon
them to take care of their employees, even during periods of depression
Mr. Jonas. Mr. Green, may I ask you a question there?
Mr. GREEN. Yes.
Mr. Jonas. What is the final solution of this problem of increasing
technological unemployment? What we need is more jobs, and what
is the solution of that growing problem?
Mr. Green. Well, fortunately, up until this serious depression
came on, we were able to deal with the problem of displacements in a
fairly satisfactory way; because the newer industries that had developed
 during this last few vears absorbed a larce number of those