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 Mr. William Green, president of American Federation of Labor

Collection:: Economics Books

UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 23 the President of the United States, and by outstanding men and women in public life. Objection has been raised to Senate bill 3060. Tt has been asserted that this bill transgresses upon the rights of the States, that it is an invasion on the part of the Federal Government upon the constitu- tional rights of the States." My good friend, Mr. Emery, representing the Manufactuers’ Association, filed a brief in which he dealt with the matter in a legal way, pointing out the legal objections that the Manufacturers’ Asso- clation raised in opposition to this measure. The distinguished Senator from Connecticut, Mr. Bingham, in a radio address the other evening, followed the same line of argument. He opposed the measure on the ground that it was unconstitutional, that it interfered with the police power of the States, that it was a transgression on the part of the Federal Government upon the rights of the States; an argument that was purely legal. No reference was made by the Senator, nor by Mr. Emery, to the human equation, to the great problem of unemployment, to the fact that the man was seeking work and could not find work and there was no Government agency created for the purpose of assisting him to find work. Imagine a cold, legal argument of that kind appealing to a man out of work, seeking employment, looking to some source, to some help and finding none. In the city of Detroit the unemployment situation has become acute. The men are sitting in the parks all day long and all night long, hundreds and thousands of them, muttering to themselves, out of work, seeking work. The same is true in the city of Chicago. It is not quite as bad in the city of New York, although it is very bad. Los Angeles, St. Louis—all the larger cities of the country— thousands of men sitting in the parks. Their numbers. are daily increasing. Then to offer to these men who are trying to find a place where they may seek and secure employment, a cold legal argument in opposition to the only gesture that has been made thus far to assist and help them. Now, because of that argument offered by my distinguished friend, Mr. Emery, whose judgment I respect very much, I called upon our attorney, an eminent attorney, to prepare a legal answer to the constitutional points raised, and with your permission, Mr. Chairman, I wish to submit this legal answer to the points raised by Mr. Emery and by Senator Bingham. This refers to Senate bill 3060. ) Mr. Tucker. May I inquire, Mr. Green, whether Mr. Emery or Senator Bingham made any objections to Senate bill 3059? Mr. Green. Not that I know of. There may be objections, but I have not heard. There was no objection raised, as I recall, by Mr. Emery in the brief he filed. That brief referred to Senate bill 3060. : Mr. CeLLer. Mr. Emery is present and he can answer, Mr. Emery. We not only have no objection to the other two bills, one of which is before this committee, and one of which is before another committee, but we approve them. Bill 3060 is the only one to which we offer criticism.

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