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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UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 183 rices vith ake - he her me ‘her 1te 'S a ving hor. 31n mce d, I che i of le. () 3060, fore fin- ould sent vice eon 101¥8 ate and Late. ajes ther y the leral L ged, hich eaus sion wt a 1 for eral sori We can see only duplication of effort, additional expense and increasing friction a5 the result of the passage of such a bill. We do believe that the Government can use facilities already existing to get information regarding conditions and to secure cooperation between States and for that reason believe there may be some value to the other two Wagner bills which the Senate has already passed. But we can see only harm from bill S. 3060 as far as South Dakota and its interests are concerned. Very truly yours, Mary A. MILLER, Secretary. NaTionaL LEAGUE oF WoMEN VOTERS, June 12, 1930. Hon. Georae S. GraHAM, Chairman House Committee on Judiciary, Washington, D. C. Dear MR. Grauam: The National League of Women Voters wishes to record its support of S. 3061 providing for the collection and report of monthly employ- ment statistics. Since 1923 through its committee on women in industry the National League of Women Voters has studied the subject of unemployment, emphasizing par- iicularly measures of unemployment prevention. It is obvious that any program for intelligent dealing with unemployment must start with adequate information loncerning the extent of the evil. The league is on record by convention action n support of the “Collection of adequate employment statistics’ as a necessary art of any comprehensive scheme for stabilizing employment. The need for uch statistics has been strikingly illustrated by the crisis which has developed in he unemployment situation of recent months. Although the league is not specifically authorized by its program to support the eorganization of the Federal employment service as provided for in S. 3060, its rogram does provide for support of ‘“ Adequate appropriation for the United jtates Employment Service’ and in so far as S. 3060 does this we wish to express nur interest in it. This item is one which has been studied and supported by the League of Nomen Voters as early as February, 1920. When the league was officially organized in that year the following recommendation was adopted by the lonvention: “We recommend to Congress and the Federal Government: The establishment of a joint Federal and State emplovment service with women’s departments under the direction of technically qualified women.” In the nine succeeding conventions the league has reaffirmed its support of the Pegpint Employment Service. We therefore wish to record our friendly interest nS. 3060. Respectfully yours, FRANCES ANDERSON (Mrs. RoscoE ANDERSON), Acting President. The Saturday Evening Post, February 16, 1920] UNEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS By Kenneth Coolbaugh America’s industrial resurgence since the decade's dawn holds no promise hore heartening than the changed attitude of its leaders toward unemployment. Formerly they gave their sympathy and money to lightening its effect upon thers. To-day, in addition, they are giving a concern, constant and intent, to inemployment’s effect upon themselves. At my elbow rests a sheaf of letters. A bank of towering resources prefaces A round dozen questions with the phrase: ‘Because of the implications it has ‘or general business, we are very much interested in the employment situation 1 the present time.” An automobile finance corporation—48 offices grace its etterhead—requests periodic reports on the employment trend in a score of in- lustrial fields that bloom within a trolley fare of my office. A steamship com- Jany of time-honored lineage, prodded by its New York office, asks for data, Statistics, and general information from time to time on the extent of unemploy- Ment in industrial and near-by farming communities. A tire and rubber com- Pany incloses a questionnaire. Approximate percentages, numbers unemployed

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