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

Collection:: Economics Books

[38 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES are unable to get accurate statistics of unemployment. But if they zot it from the Federal Government, they could plan ahead so as to stabilize their dinstry. You can begin a circle which helps to stabilize all the different economic activities and I have very great hopes for it as a solution of this question of unemployment. Now let us turn to the bill, which seems to be the center of attack. Somebody suggested this morning, one of these gentlemen, perhaps uninformed again, that there are no employment exchanges in England and none in Germany. They have any amount of employ- ment exchanges. That is the center, the crux, of their whole effort to solve unemployment—the employment exchanges. We have alto- gether 170 offices, and here is Great Britain, with a population of only 42,000,000 as against our 120,000,000, and she has 1,162 public exchanges; Germany, with a population of 62,000,000, has 1,293 public exchanges—to bring the man to the job. They found it absolutely assential during their trying times to have these exchanges, first, to segregate the individual, to find out what he can do, what kind of a mechanic he is, and then to send him to the job that wants that type of man. We have no such analysis here. Secondly, here is the way they are attacking the technological unemployment. A man has lost his craft; they find out just about what kind of work he can do and they have a vocational training school connected with the employment exchange. THe is put in there for a week or two, readjusted, so that with his mechanical skill he can do some other type of work for which there is a demand and back he goes into the new employment and maintains his standard of living. That is what these employment exchanges are doing there. And let me say, too, that in all of these conferences where the sub- ject of unemployment has been discussed, they have all recom- mended employment exchanges, as a part of a proeram to deal with this subject,—everyone of them. Mr. Mox~rague. Did they recommend the transportation of those seeking work to these various places? Senator WAGNER. Yes; they spoke of interstate placement. Mr. Montague. Yes, I know; but did they say the Government shall transport them from one place to another, free of expense? Senator Wagner. They recommended employment exchanges and one of the functions of the employment exchange is interstate place- ment, which must mean that their function is to take the man from the place where he is, to the place where he is wanted. Mr. MonTaGuE. Do these present private agencies do that in any way? Senator WaeNER. Well, you see, they have not this cooperation, The purpose of this whole legislation is to bring about cooperation between the States. Mr. Montacue. Yes; I understand that. Senator WAGNER. Much of the opposition to-day went on the assumption there are not any State public employment exchanges. Twenty-five States have employment exchanges to-day; but none of them 1s informed as to the economic condition of another State. Now New York State cooperates by a special arrangement with the State of New Jersey; the employment exchanges of the State of New Jersey cooperate with the employment exchanges of the State of New York. Miss Perkins related that before the Senate committee.

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