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 Dr. Henry A. Atikinson, general secretary Church Union and World Alliance, New York City

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22 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES yi measures of prevention for which provision is made in the three Wagner 11s. That is signed by something like 900 men and women, with their names and addresses given here. I would like to submit this to your committee as our contribution. We believe firmly these bill are sound in principle, that they are simple and mark the minimum of what our nation should be called upon to do in this serious situation at this time. Mr. La Guarpia. From whom was that quotation? Doctor Atkinson. From President Hoover. The CrairmMaN. The committee will receive the petition. Senator WAGNER. Mr. Chairman, I would ask the committee to hear the President of the American Federation of Labor, Mr. William Green. STATEMENT OF MR. WILLIAM GREEN, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR Mr. GreeN. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee: I am sure I will not be regarded as being presumptuous if I might state, just in the beginning of my remarks, that in my opinion the com- mittee is now considering what I regard as the most serious employ- ment and economic problem now confronting the American people. It is very significant that the Congress of the United States is now in session when the country is confronted by a most serious social, economic, and industrial condition. This situation became serious about one year ago. It has become increasingly serious ever since and it is a constant menace to the peace and prosperity of our country. It is inconceivable that Congress would adjourn without enacting some legislation which would have for its purpose the relief of this very serious situation. These bills proposed are in my judgment very conservative. They provide in a most constructive, practical and conservative way, a remedy for dealing with many phases of this unemployment problem and American labor hopes, sincerely hopes, that the Congress of the United States will enact all these measures into law. It would be most disappointing if the Congress adjourns without at least making this gesture as proposed in these measures. I am here as a representative of the American Federation of Labor to give our unqualified, unreserved support to each of these three measures and if I might appeal to the committee, I would like to do so, that you give this your most serious and favorable consideration, and that you might do all within your power to secure the enactment of these measures by the House of Representatives. The two bills pending are Senate bills 3059 and 3060. The one deals with better planning in the expenditure of public funds for Government construction purposes. The other provides for the setting up of Government employment agencies in order to assist workingmen who may be out of work, in finding and securing employment. I can not believe that there is any substantial opposition to Senate bill 3059, because it, for the first time, endeavors to make practical and operative, a plan that has been almost universally favored by economists, by those who have given the matter study, by labor, by

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