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 hon. John L. Cable, a representative in congress from the State of Ohio

Collection:: Economics Books

182 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES In other words, take care of American citizens first. ¥ % % (2) Not an inhabitant of the State or district in which the services of such laborer or mechanic are so used. Mr. Moore. I see the purpose of the bill; it just has to do with the employment of local labor. Mr. CasLe. With the employment of local labor. Mr. Moore. And not with relation to the contract. Mr. CaBLeE. No. The contractor, however, would have to take into consideration the availability of local labor and the price he would have to pay for that labor, rather than geing in some other part of the country and importing a lot of cheap labor into the home city of yourself or myself, on the construction of a post office or other (Government building. Mr. Dyer. Do you think Congress has the authority to so legislate. Mr. Cable? Mr. CaBiE. I do not think there is any doubt about it. It is a Government building. 1 think we have gone so far, in improving some harbors, such as out in Hawaii, as to provide as to the labor. But my particular interest is in H. R. 8374. I {eel the conditions in this country are such that Congress should take some action and since this is the committee to which the Senate bills have been referred, I feel it is up to the committee to give further consideration to the proposition of unemployment in the country, and the method of relieving the same. [ want to thank you for the opportunity of appearing. Mr. Dyer. We are very glad to have heard from you, Mr. Cable MANUFACTURERS AND EMPLOYERS AssoCIATION OF SourH DAKOTA, Stour Falls, S. Dak., May 23. 1930 Hon. C. A. CHRISTOPHERSON. House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. DEAR SIR: a a 3 Another measure which is creating much comment is the Wagner bill, 8. 3060, which was passed by the Senate on the 12th and will undoubtedly come up before the House for consideration soon. This creates a United States Bureau of Em- ployment and adds another expensive bureau to the Federal system and would duplicate work which is adequately handled at the present time. (At the present time South Dakota does not expend Government funds for employment service operations—it would be entirely out of line with present tendencies toward econ- omy and adjustment of expenditures to add such services—as might be done through the 50-50 subsidy embraced by this bill—to our already heavy State expenses. While this bill would not force such operations, it opens the wav and ancourages them.) The control of operations financed by a State should be in the hands of the State. This bill gives the Federal Government the right to invade these internal policies of the individual states. Where conditions are as unique and different from other States as they are in South Dakota, the police powers should remain intact in the hands of the State and its citizens. It is a most extraordinary attempt to control the labor situation through Federal standards and regulations. It estalMshes a precedent which, if encouraged, would open the way for unlimited Federal control. The most dangerous part of the bill, it seems to us, is that provision which covers the use of the $1,000,000 per year for the establishment of Federal bureaus in States which have none or in States which do not comply with the provision relating to State acceptance of Federal aid and control. This makes it almost 2 rompulsory matter to take aid and control or invite Government competition for the existing bureaus already established. The bill also provides that the Federal officials may settle the matter with the governor of the State, not through leais- lative action.

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