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 James A. Emery, Washtington, D.C., representing the National Association of Manufacturers, and others

Collection:: Economics Books

UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 111 rers In- the 388- m- ted ‘ew ia- ler- ers an- see 80-~ on; ast 40= 1a] th of mn al 1d ne Ar ime | Ly f y= to say that both the National Association of Manufacturers and all State associations that are here represented, at the present cooperat- ing with every local force and organization to remedy the condition which confronts us, and I appeal very confidently to either Miss Perkins or to others who here represent their own States as public officials for confirmation of the statement that I make to you, and [ shall later call your specific attention to evidences of this. I am very much tempted, Mr. Chairman, merely as a background for the discussion I desire to present, to refer, if I may, for a moment to some of the matters that have been brought to the attention of your committee, only in so far as they are pertinent to the funda- mental inquiry that I wish to address to you, and that is that this bill is invalid and unconstitutional, and that it represents an unsound policy which will not produce the effect which has been here suggested, and that in fact, as I shall show you as a matter of record, 1t is nos in consonance with the recommendations of the public bodies that have been chiefly referred to here, but is in contradiction to them, as I shall endeavor to show you from the official records. Let me say first of all, if I may, Mr. Chairman, without drifting too far from the immediate subject of inquiry before this committee, that the great problem of regularizing employment in the United States is receiving not merely the sporadic or temporary, but the continuous attention of the executives of manufacturing operations throughout the United States. All the gentlemen whose names were presented to you by Miss Perkins this morning are members of the National Association of Manufacturers, and our committees are continually engaged in the study of these great problems, in the accumulation and exchange of information between their members, and our committees in active operation as well as in their annual gatherings or quarterly gatherings and conventions, are exchanging information and undertaking to do everything within their power to regularize the conditions of employment, and in doing so to profit so far as they can by the experience of fellow manufacturers individually or collectively. And inasmuch as there has been the general suggestion here this morning that our economic machinery appears to be failing in the performance of its functions, since it has not met and satisfactorily solved a problem so serious as that of continuous employment, I want to call your attention just for a moment to one or two of the things that it has done, which are an enormous contribution to this situation, realizing, as I am sure all of you gentlemen do, that the penalty of our progress is continuous difficulties in adjusting ourselves to a rapidly changing economic environment—and that is not peculiar to the situation of the wage earner, in whom we have the profoundest interest; it-is the. position of the manufacturer himself. } As a preliminary consideration let me beg to call your attention to the results of the remarkable inquiries that have just been published an inquiry on the National Income and Its Purchasing Power, by Doctor Willford King, issued under the authority and by the direction of the National Bureau of Economic Research. On the board of that body is a most representative group of economists, of business men, of executives of labor organizations, representing every shade and phase of public thought, and through that is strained all the results 118808—30—sER 11——8

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