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

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24 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES Mr. Green. That was my impression of their attitude, of the atti- tude of Mr. Emery, representing the Manufacturers’ Association. It is because of their strong opposition to Senate bill 3060 that I am dwelling particularly upon that measure. CONSTITUTIONALITY OF SENATE BILL 3060 The above mentioned bill, now under consideration by this committee, has two aspects, one sociological and the other legal or constitutional. The two principal attacks upon the bill have been made by Senator Bingham in a public address on June 7, 1930, a summary of which address is to be found in The United States Daily of Washington, D. C., June 9, 1930; and the other is a brief filed by the National Association of Manufacturers with the Senate Com- mittee on Commerce. Senator Bingham attacks the bill on four principal grounds, namely: First. Because it seeks to seduce or bribe the States to surrender a vital power of self-government, etc. Second. Because it proceeds to coerce the State into acceptance of assistance from the United States and dominant Federal control. Third. That the policy of the bill is in contradiction of the Doeniniions of the President’s conference of unemployment of 1921. Fourth. That the bill is in contradiction of the recommendations of the representative conference on unemployment and undertakes to compel rather than to persuade the cooperation of the States. Further Senator Bingham is quoted as saying: We are continually trespassing upon the rights of the States, and are cen- tralizing the authority that belongs to them, in agencies of the National Government. In its brief above referred to, the National Association of Man- ufacturers attacks the bill on some of the grounds stated by Sen- ator Bingham but principally upon the ground that the bill is unconstitutional. The statements of opposition voiced by Senator Bingham and others against the necessity of a centralized employment system, so far as the sociological phase of the bill is concerned and so far as relates to the necessity and demand for the enactment of the bill, appear to be fully answered by the testimony of Senator Wagner and others who appeared before the Senate Committee on Commerce on March 18 and April 1, 1930, together with the statistics contained in the digest filed by Senator Wagner in connection with his testimony before the Senate Committee; and in the public address of Senator Wagner, printed in the Congressional Record of May 27, 1930; as well as in the memorandum of Senator Wagner in opposition to the above mentioned brief of the National Manufacturers’ Association. It, therefore, remains only to discuss the constitutional questions raised by and the cases cited in the brief of the National Manufac- turers’ Association, and to supplement the authorities cited in the last mentioned memorandum of Senator Wagner, who cites, in sup- port of the constitutionality of the bill, the following:

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