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

30 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES Mr. Green. I believe that is the case, Congressman, although I have not just at my finger’s end a report of that kind. That is my understanding and impression. Mr. LAGuarpia. The New York report of 1910 expressed that point. Senator WaeNer. Miss Perkins is here. She is the industrial commissioner of New York and I think she will give us some inter- esting testimony on that very subject. Mr. GreEN. Yes, Miss Perkins, I am sure will give you complete information on that, so far as she can speak for New York. The CrairMAN. Mr. Green, who is the author of the brief? Mr. GreeN. The distinguished attorney of the American Federa- tion of Labor, Mr. Easby-Smith of Washington. He prepared this brief after making a very exhaustive and careful investigation of the decisions and the points raised by my distinguished friend, Mr. Emery, and after the address had been delivered by Senator Bingham a few nights ago. Mr. CeLLER. Mr. Green, did we not have Federal employment agencies established during the war? Mr. GREEN. Yes, sir. Mr. CeLLeR. And that functioned adequately for the purposes of the emergency, did it not? Mr. Green. Very well. It functioned very well. Mr. CeLLER. Do you, as president of the American Federation of Labor, find in your studies that the present employment agencies of the States are adequate for the purpose of coping with the present unemployment situation? Mr. Green: Totally inadequate, and particularly the private employment agencies. Workers are compelled to turn to these private employment agencies and you know what the situation is there. They are compelled to pay a fee and they all of them deal with local situations rather than with the national situation. There is no cooperation, Mr. CeLLER. Do you think it fair to compel the man out of em- ployment to pay a fee to get a job? Mr. Green. [ think it is an injustice. Mr. CerLEr. Do you think a Federal employment agency might remedy that situation? Mr. Green. Wonderfully. Mr. CeLLER. There are a number of countries that prohibit the charging of fees for the purpose of getting jobs for unemploved: is that correct? Mr. GREEN. Yes, sir. Mr. CeLLER. 1 believe that is true of five Provinces in Canada and seven European countries. Mr. Green. I could not give you the number, but I do know that that statement is correct; that it is prohibited by statute in certain laces. P Mr. Cerrer. Do you find also, Mr. Green, that much unemploy- ment is due to so-called technological displacement of men as a result of labor-saving devices? Mr. GREEN. A very great deal of it. In fact, when conditions are normal, more than 9 per cent of all the working people of the country are unemployed, and much of that is due to technological unemploy- ment.

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