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

114 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES condition. That is our common anxiety. Tt is our common obliga- tion. It is our common necessity. And now, gentlemen, who has presented to you yet how this bill undertakes to remedy that condi- tion by its terms? What is this bill? What does it propose to do? What machinery does it set up? Upon what theory does it proceed to operate? I want to lay down, if I may, four propositions with regard to it. First, that it is unauthorized use of the power of appropriation to control and regulate the internal police policy of the individual States with respect to the establishment and operation of public and indi- rectly of private employment agencies. The Cuarrman. You are now discussing 30607? Mr. Emery. 3060 only, sir. To that alone shall I address myself. The bill confers upon the Federal bureau and an executive officer unprecedented authority to control the use of appropriation in order to substantially establish and determine the policy of the States with respect to the operation of their employment agencies and the place- ment and movement of labor through standards and regulations exclusively prescribed by such Federal official and bureau. And third, the policy proposed under the guise of cooperation asserts the right and intention to coerce the individual States into the acceptance of Federal policies as to the operation of their employ- ment agencies by establishing such agencies within the States, whether or not they are desired. Furthermore, such agencies are authorized to be established and maintained in competition and conflict with existing State agencies whenever such States do not agree to accept and operate under the prescribed Federal policy. And fourth, the policy of this bill is in plain contradiction with the unanimous recommendation of the President’s Conference on Employ- ment, September 26 to October 13, 1921, the Committee on Business Cycles and Employment, the report of the Committee on Business Cycles and Employment being a subcommittee of said conference, and the recommendations of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor investigating the causes and remedies for unemployment, report No. 2072, Seventieth Congress, second session, February 25, 1929. Now, Mr. Chairman, that I may not disappoint the distinguished gentleman who addressed you a few moments ago, let me say that sub- stantially none of the objections which he anticipated I should make to you are those which I hope to present, and I desire to deal with the utmost frankness with this committee with regard to the viewpoint of the associations that I represent. If this were merely a proposal to provide for the appropriation and support of a Federal employment system which undertook to secure the cooperation of employment agencies operating within the State, public in their nature, to coordi- nate these in order to secure more accurate, more timely and more relevent information with respect to the State of employment in the United States, we should be here to support and not to criticize the existing proposal. But that, we will undertake to show, is not its purpose, is not to be the effect of its operation, but that it goes far beyond that. Indeed, I do not hesitate to say that it goes further than any legislative proposal that has received the serious attention of Congress in seducing and ultimately undertaking to coerce the States into an adoption of a Federal policy and the acceptance of the

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