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

124 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES The subcommittee appointed then on the subject of business cycles and unemployment endorsed the same principle again, and the chair- man of that committee was Mr. Owen Young, and Mr. Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, was one of its members. The Secretary of Commerce was the chairman of that meeting, now President of the United States. Then on March 3, 1928, the Senate adopted a resolution in the Seven- tieth Congress which directed the Committee on Education and Labor to investigate the causes of unemployment, the methods of relief, including organization and extension of the system of public employ- ment agencies, Federal and State. The committee held extensive hearings and made a unanimous report on February 25, 1929. Sum- marizing its views, the committee expressed the following conclusions with respect to the feasibility of cooperation of Federal, State, and pri- vate agencies with respect to all the subjects related to the unemploy- ment program. That is the title of their conclusions: Your committee has discussed this phase of the survey as it has proceeded with this report, and there is little to add. In general it is the opinion of your com- mittee that the responsibility should be kept as close to home as possible. Private agencies should make first effort and should do everything they ean for them- selves. The States should contribute only that service that private agencies find impossible, and the Government— that is, the National Government should merely coordinate the work of the States and supply any effort which is entirely and purely of a national character. Then it says further in summarizing its recommendations: The States and the municipalties should be responsible for building efficient unemployment exchanges. The Government should be responsible for coordina- ting the work of the States so as to give a national understanding of any condition that may arise, and so as to be able to assist in any national functioning of un- employment exchanges. The committee further _ emphasized repeatedly throughout. its report the fact that the private operators and agencies present the source of employment and the responsible means of meeting the problem of stabilization. Thus referring to this the Senate committee Bays: The organization to handle the disease in this form— that is, unemployment— should be local, it seems to your committee. It should be one which would be responsible for local conditions, one which is responsible also to local officials, to local employers, and to local employees. It could not be more emphatic in condemnation of the plan here proposed. ew And finally the committee quotes Doctor Commons, who advised your committee that the States and cities should establish and operate the unemployment exchanges, and that the Federal Government should merely establish an organization of experts to coordinate the work of the local exchanges. Your committee is in accord with the idea that the Federal Government should remain as far away from the operation of these local offices as is possible. The employment exchanges should be local. Now, that is repeated over and over again, Mr. Chairman, in the course of that committee’s report, and I bring it to vour attention

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