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 Fred J. Winslow, Chicago, Ill., representing the Illinois Employment Board

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154 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES Mr. Winsrow. This bill undertakes to create a eertain force to do a certain work. The work proposed is already being carried out as fully as the number of positions permit, and even the proponents do not claim the bill can create additional positions. What, then, is the reason for asking for millions of public funds to duplicate work already being done? It is to crowd out of the picture those already doing this work. But why crowd them out? Because, as now or- ganized, the private employment agencies who do the placement work provide the means of individual bargaining. Individual bar- gaining stands clearly in the path of collective bargaining of organized minorities who have repeatedly declared for the elimination of private employment agencies, and this bill, we believe, to be one of their attempts to’ put down the principle of freedom of contract and indi- vidual bargaining. Government is to govern and was never intended to enter into competition with its own citizens. Furthermore, a national system has no justification in supplanting local and State activities. Uni- form regulations are impossible to fit all local conditions and the power and authority granted in the bill is the greatest ever given any body or individual in the history of a free people. The States have not asked for such interference, but the bill proposes to force the same upon them. The inclusion of private employment agencies without seeking full details is un-American. In conclusion, is it not well to consider the result of sixteen millions of dollars in terms that mean officeholders responsible to some one and these officeholders passing out free jobs? It is the foundation of the biggest machine that has ever been and the easy possibility of a condition that means a change in our entire form of government. That is all I have to say. Mr. Tucker. What do you mean by $16,000,000? Mr. Winsrow. $4,000,000 a year appropriatd by the bill. . The Cuairman. He means the appropriation provided for in the ill, Mr. Winsrow. Thank vou, sir. Mr. LAGuarpia. Then your primary objection is that it may interfere with private bargaining as against collective bargaining? Mr, WinsLow. Yes, sir. The CaairMaN. Now we will call Mr. Frank L. Peckham. STATEMENT OF FRANK IL. PECKHAM Mr. Pecknam. If the committee pleases, I have listened very attentively to Mr. Emery’s argument against the bill and to Mr. Cadwalader’s, and shall therefore avoid any duplication of anything they have said, being in hearty accerd with the legal arguments against the bill. I feel I might call attention to the fact that most proponents of measures of this kind are quite willing to brush aside any constitutional objections and to refer to them as cold legal arguments, and to remind those proponents that the Constitution we are here to defend has served them in good stead many a time and will serve them in good stead in the future, and that to scrap the Constitution to relieve a temporary situation is going to result in a greater evil, that would more than offset any good that this lecisla-

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