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

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self nt, 3r- in /~ be I zh ng — ed x7 Ly 18 n- B= at al is ie ig LO ir n Wf ) Tt 2 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 123 OUTLINE OF PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT SYSTEM (Adopted by the conference, October 11, 1921) 1. A permanent system of employment offices for bringing workers and jobs together with the quickest despatch is necessary, both in times of depression and prosperity. 2. Your committee finds that there are now 25 States which have established State employment systems, and public employment offices are now being operated in about 200 cities, of which about 17 are purely municipal enterprises. Most of the 200 offices are supported jointly by the State and municipality. Your committee feels that in any permanent system the State should be the operating unit of such employment offices, and that the extension of such offices should be encouraged. The Federal Government itself should not operate local offices or do placement work. _And that is precisely what this bill proposes to do, in direct contra- diction with the recommendation of this conference. } Then the conference went on to suggest a constructive method of securing cooperation and coordination of national and local effort, as follows: 3. However, for the purpose of bringing about coordination, the Federal Government should— (a) Collect, compile, and make available statistical information. . That is provided for in a more extended form by one of the bills in this group. (b) Collect and make available information which will facilitate interstate placements. (¢) Through educational measures improve standards of work and encourage the adoption of uniform systems. 4. The existing provision of the Federal Government and many State govern- ments for all branches of such work is inadequate, and should be strengthened. The work is of first-rate importance, and should be recognized as a job for men of first-grade ability from the top down. The director should be appointed directly by the President. Adequate salaries should be provided and adequate safeguards to secure the proper personnel and to protect the tenure of office. 5. An adequate permanent system of employment offices as above suggested would obviate the necessity of creating new offices whenever new emergencies arise. It would also prevent the public employment office from being regarded as a mere temporary philanthropic device, and thus through misunderstanding from not being used generally. ® 6. In order to secure and maintain the confidence of both employers and workers in the impartiality of the service rendered and the statistics published, an advis- ory committee consisting of representatives of employers and workers should be appointed to cooperate with the director as well as a similar system of local advis- ory committees to cooperate with the State and municipal offices. That goes to the very question that I just emphasized, and you will observe that the two new items introduced into the bill represent the recommendations made in the sixth provision of this resolution. But the resolution, you see, is most emphatic in declaring that the Federal Government should not enter upon local placement work, and that only State agencies of a local nature should be employed for this purpose. } . . “ Now this resolution was further emphasized by the adoption the same day of a further resolution: 1. Cooperation with the emergency employment agencies erected by the State’s municipalities. . 2. Informing States in which there is scarcity of labor of the situation in States where there is surplus of labor of the kinds desired. 3. Securing and compiling information on employment opportunities throughout the country.

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