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:: Closing statement of hon. Robert F. Wagner, United States Senator from the States of Yew York

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UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 163 mic ind as a mnt. the the sive ted for ion rCo eps or- ent res ler. red ant at. ny aq t ny fs, “Qo as 73] he ed He nd mm 3S, J as nr 18, nd Here is a telegram from Professor Commons supporting this legisla- tion, this very bill. Mr. CaristoruErsoN. Would you mind reading the telegram Senator? , Senator Waener. This is addressed to Prof. Samuel Joseph, who Is the economist who appeared here with a petition in behalf of this legislation and Professor Commons’ name is on that petition approv- ig the legislation. The telegram reads: i ented to add my name to the signers of the communication on unemployment Hills. Joun R. Commons. As a matter of fact, I have frequently communicated with the professor and I know he has been deeply interested in this very legis- lation as a first step in the proper direction. Then Senator Couzens made an investigation of this subject in behalf of his committee. As is generally the case, the chairman does most of the work. His report strangely enough was read in opposition to this legislation. Why, Senator Couzens, in the Senate, was one of the most ardent supporters I had for the progress and the final passage of this legislation. I want to impress upon this committee that these bills, of course, are not new. A question which was asked by Congressman Michener Yesterday indicated that perhaps I claimed some authorship of this idea and that it was new. I never made any such claim and I dis- claim any originality as to this program now. In all of my speeches, from the very first time I called the attention of the country to the unemployment situation over two years ago and then protested that Congress had not attempted even to attack this serious question, I Spoke of the conferences that had been had on the subject of unem- ployment many years previously. I referred particularly to the conference of 1921 and all subsequent conferences that have been had on the subject of unemployment, and I called attention to the fact, when these deliberations were finally concluded, that all of them agreed upon the very program which I am proposing to the Congress of the United States, without exception. I never claimed to be the originator of this program for the prevention of unemployment. The press of the United States—and, after all, we must give the Dewspapers some credit for intelligence, and I do not think they would unanimously approve this legislation without some investigation, not only of the great subject of unemployment but also of the proposal to attempt to prevent an acute unemployment situation in this Country—almost without exception, irrespective of political philos- ophy, has approved this legislation. Every group of economists— and they are the men we must rely upon more or less; they make a Special study of these subjects to alleviate economic diseases—every group of economists that have ever studied this question, without exception, I will say, have approved this program. It is not a Panacea; I never claimed it was, but it is a beginning, a proper effort to solve this most serious social and economic problem in which the Congress of the United States has been neglectful. The pioneers of the past have been met with the same legalistic argument—we want old-fashioned government—as if we were living in an entirely different age,

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