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 125 leg \ir- Hl, its at - or ef, y- ve = ms l= Ve ‘th m- ite N= ad 1: nt a= nN Ne ts 1e ne ag Ne 8S. re gh +d te 1b re Tt 2. ga I} thus to show you that the President’s Conference on Unemployment, the subcommittee which is appointed under the chairmanship of Mr. Young, merely indorsed its conclusions and recommendations; the Senate committee that went into this subject for several months under the chairmanship of Mr. Couzens made the report to which I call your attention here, and while I have only read extracts from it to you an examination of the report by you will show that over and over and over again it emphasizes the fact, first, that the employers in the respective communities are the sources of employment, and that any System which is proposed should have their support and cooperation and confidence or it can not work. And I regret to say that when this bill was before the Senate Committee on Commerce, although we made an application to be heard, the hearings closed when the case for the proponents was presented, and we had no opportunity to Present our case except through the brief which we asked the Senate Committee on Commerce to then permit us to file. So that we had not the opportunity that this committee has so graciously accorded us. . I want to show to you, Mr. Chairman, if I may, the serious defects In the plan that is presented from the standpoint of our traditional System of government; that it undertakes to set up, not a voluntary but a corecive method of forcing the States into the adoption of a Federal policy. Now, the moment that the director general of employment is given the authority to fix the regulatory conditions under which all the bureaus, local in their nature, must operate in order to avail themselves of Federal aid, the State is surrendering in returning from a Federal appropriation the development of its own policy in this respect, which you could not take from it but which it must adopt and make its own policy if it wants your aid and assist- anre. And finally, not satisfied with the endeavor to secure voluntary action in this respect, it has undertaken by coercive action, by the threat that it will establish competing agencies or that it will deal with the governor where the legislature does not undertake to act, it has practically said to the state: “Either adopt our policy, even though you have in 25 States in the Union an established system of employment-—adopt our policy or we have the authority to establish i competing or conflicting agency under our direction, with the great resources of the Federal Government behind it.” Now, gentlemen, apart from this question of law, apart from the Serious objections to this tremendous endeavor to carry the Federal Government further into this policy I suggest that that is not the the best method of approaching this subject; that if this subject is to receive the support of all the great sources of private employment in the United States, it must be presented to them with all the local agencies cooperating under local government and local policy and State authority, in order to enlist that assistance and cooperation. No one remotely in Washington is capable of directing and regulating Internal and local affairs of States with respect to a problem as delicate and as far-reaching as this, and you have only to touch the Outskirts, of it to realize how many complicated questions are pre- sented. It was said in respect to technological employment, for example, that the establishment of new labor saving devices was throwing men out of their jobs and making difficult questions of adjustment. That is partly true, but it is not peculiar to employers alone; it is peculiar to all industry.

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