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 Thomas F. Cadwalader, representing the Sentinels of the Republic, Baltimore, MD.

Collection:: Economics Books

ngs ey n- To she of red ad. ant ’y nd wh dy bs, aw ne nr ie vo bh al 1€ ae A- Ww ie 8 wT al 8 d “) UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 135 Our purpose is to study the constitutional aspects of legislation pending before Congress particularly and to urge in all cases a recur- rence and an adherence to the fundamentals of our American Con- stitution. We have no financial interest in any of these measures. We are the only so-called partiotic organization that I know of that actually sarries its patriotism to the point of making an effort to put across its views which are substantially the views of the founders of our (Yovernment. In regard to this particular measure, I listened with great interest—— Mr, Tucker. Which bill are you speaking of? Mr. CapwarLapeg. I listened with great interest to the arguments yesterday. I am referring to S. 3060. "Mr. Green, of the American Federation of Labor, admitted that this problem of unemployment is a world problem; that England, Germany, and other great nations have been wrestling with it for a number of years, that it has recently attacked our own land, and he suggested that we Americans should proceed to solve it by what he called an American method, by which presumably I suppose he meant passing these bills into legislation. There are several things that might be by different people consid- pred American methods of handling difficult problems. Possibly to some might appeal the suggestion that we ought to deal with this sub- ject by constitutional amendment, providing that after a certain date unemployment should be prohibited. We do not think, however, with due deference to some of our fellow citizens, that that would be an efficient method, whether American or otherwise. of dealing with this problem. We do not think, with due respect to the Senator from New York, to Mr. Green and to other proponents of this legislation, that the present is an efficient or indeed characteristically American method in the old-fashioned sense in which our organization claims to stand for Americanism. In the first place, let us consider the legislation itself and what it offers. Mr. Green was too intelligent to claim that this was a cure for the problem of unemployment, a problem that, as your committee well had opportunity to observe yesterday, completely baffles trained economists who disagreed radically before vou as to the proper method of approach. One of them suggested, as the majority of the advocates of this legislation seem to suggest, that employers of labor should be encour- aged to undertake to keep up part-time employment, at least of all their employees, and another suggested that results would be better in the long run practically by firing a considerable number of employees and paying full wages to the balance so as to guarantee them a job and the power of spending their money. Then there is the question which we are really not here to debate, as to the efficacy of this bill to provide for taking up the slack in bard times by spending more Government money on Government work, which may or may not afford a remedy to the situation. There is no constitutional objection to doing that. It may be wise and in some instances of course undoubtedly would be wise. Whether it can be carried out to a full, effective degree is of course a problem.

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