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 Miss Grace E. Cooke, representing the National Employment Board, Boston, Mass

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1d 6 to Ne TS ot. in re d Je LO ab ~t, ry i % 1, n 1e kK T oO 37 h oO UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 149 labor from where it is not needed to where it is needed ; OT are we going to be controlled by the other thing—the union? : Miss Cooke. You will be controlled, sir, by the union, if I under- stand it correctly. I am making a pretty broad statement, but I believe it is based on fact. Mr. Micuengr. That is all. Mr. Sparks. Do you know how many people are engaged in the different employment agencies throughout the United States, in the handling of the same and their employees? Miss Cooke. Now is the question—— Mr. Sparks. In the private employment agency. Miss Cooxz. Is the question how many employment agencies are there in the United States? Mr. Sparks. No, madam; I did not intend it that way. Miss Cooke. How many people are employed? Mr. Sparks. Are employed in those agencies? Miss Cooke. I can not state for a certainty but I can give you ap- proximate figures. There are 3,000 agencies of all classifications in the country, including teachers and unskilled labor. That is as nearly as we can determine it. I build my list twice a year. Of Course, there is a turnover. Some of those offices employ 1 , 2, and 3 people; other offices employ as many as 75 to 100. Mr. Sparks. Could you make any approximation of the number, then, that are employed in those agencies? Miss Cooke. I could not; but I can furnish the figures to this com- mittee inside of a week; if it would be of any value, I could give you the exact figures. Mr. LaGuarpia. Miss Cooke, you based most of your opposition to S. 3060? Miss Cooke. Entirely. Mr. LaGuarpia. Yes—in the belief that it will cause competition between the Federal and State agency and the fee-charging agencies? Miss Cooke. Not competition. ; The Cuairman. I think the lady means to convey the idea, if I get it rightly, that the passage of this bill, under the power of the an who controls the work for the Government. will wipe out the Private agencies. Mr. LaGuarpia. Exactly. : The Cuarrman. That is the point. Co Miss Cookr. Absolutely. The Cuarrman. And take the employment away from them. : Mr. LaGuarpia. You stated you represented mostly professional agencies? Miss Cooke. Agencies serving men and women engaged in tech- nical, educational, clerical, and like pursuits. . Mr. LaGuarpia. Now. those are the agencies that are in your organization? Miss Cooxe. In the National Employment Board. " Mr. LaGuarpia. You do not embrace agencies specializing in labor, unskilled Jabor, and semiskilled labor? Miss Cooke. Not in the National Employment Board. Mr. LaGuarpia. Now, you expressed a fear as to the regulatory Powers of this national bureau and the Federal commissioner and Stated there was a great deal of confidential information. What 18 the general character of that confidential information?

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