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

34 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES Mr. GREEN. Just that slight improvement, and that is perhaps due fo seasonal conditions. Mr. MonTAGUE. Are your figures controverted by any department of the Government? Mr. GREEN. These are our own figures gathered by our own statistical department. Mr. MonTAGUE. I do not mean that. I mean does the Secretary of Labor, for instance, agree with your figures? Does he accept your figures as to the number of unemploved as being correct? Mr. GreEN. No; except as—— Mr. MonTAGUE (interposing). The statement has been given out by the Secretary of Labor that there is a gradual diminution in unemployment. Mr. Green. I think so. I think those figures show a slight diminution, the difference between 3,600,000 and 3,700,000. Mr. CeLLer. What loss of wages does that unemployment for the month of May represent? Mr. GREEN. About 20 per cent. Mr. Cerner. Twenty per cent of the number, or in dollars? Mr. Green. Twenty per cent: there are 20 per cent of the workers unemployed. Mr. CeLLEr. But I say what is the loss in wages? Mr. Green. I think I have that here in my prepared statement that I am going to follow along. T have some more information along that line. Mr. Hammer. Mr. Green, just one question. I did not get in to hear all of your statement. I find among the unemployed taxi drivers and such hike, and I found one the other day and he said he was dis- charged with five thousand more by the Pennsylvania Railroad some time ago. I told him I hoped we could remedy the matter and under- stood 1t was getting better. He said, “Oh, yes; the Labor Depart- ment says so, but they don’t know,” and he said the newspapers tried to boost good times and I asked him if he thought anything could be done. He said he had doubts about legislation. This was an igno- rant man, you understand, but what I am asking is for information for people who do not know as much as you do. How would you expect to remedy the situation by reason of the depressed conditions where a railroad discharges as many employees as the Pennsylvania and some other roads have? How would this remedy that? Mr. GrrEN. There are a number of things that must be done. The plans we propose are only partial remedies for the unemployment situation. In my own judgment, private industry must face its responsibilities and there must be better planning and better regulari- zation of employment, a better system of employment; that is, the private employers must realize there is an obligation resting upon them to take care of their employees, even during periods of depression Mr. Jonas. Mr. Green, may I ask you a question there? Mr. GREEN. Yes. Mr. Jonas. What is the final solution of this problem of increasing technological unemployment? What we need is more jobs, and what is the solution of that growing problem? Mr. Green. Well, fortunately, up until this serious depression came on, we were able to deal with the problem of displacements in a fairly satisfactory way; because the newer industries that had devel- oped during this last few vears absorbed a larce number of those

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