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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UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 35 ue nt rn 'y ir 1b n ht he "T'S nt +N “0 Ss 3= 18 Te t_ -d 8 D= nn a0 1S a 2. 1t is Fa a n ND Z t Nn 1 displaced. But the trouble is that the point of saturation—I think shat is the proper term—has almost been reached; the newer indus- ries have almost reached their maximum capacity in their power to absorb and, unless there is something more that will develop, new and still newer industries, to take up this slack unemployment caused by technological unemployment and machine displacement, we will be face to face with the same condition that exists in England ind Germany. Mr. Jonas. Surely. Mr. GREEN. And we will have to grapple with that problem then and choose between this social disorder and constructive legislation. We are not face to face with that yet. Mr. Jonas. But we should begin to face it. Mr. Green. I say we ought to make a gesture; we ought to do something. Mr. Jonas. But my question is, if you will express an opinion, what is your opinion as to the fundamental solution of this problem that faces the world and that we all ought to be thinking about? Mr. Green. Well you have asked me a very difficult question. Mr. Jonas. I know it. Mr. GreEEN. I would hesitate to answer a question fraught with such world-wide significance. Mr. Jonas. But we have to answer it, do we not? Mr. Green. Yes; and, if you will ask a hundred men who claim to have studied the question, you will perhaps cet a hundred different Answers. Mr. Jonas. But I have such great respect for your judgment, I wondered what your idea of the correct solution was. Mr. Green. 1 think these bills will help us materially, particularly this bill; it will help us to regularize emplovment: it will help us to place men. Mr. Jonas. But these bills do not reach the fundamentals of the problem involved. Mr. GreeN. Perhaps not; but it will be a great help to us in dealing vith this unemployment problem. Mr. Jonas. 1 think so, too. Mr. Sumners. Mr. Green, as I view this bill, it probably provides some machinery for study and provides some machinery for shifting labor—you say 3,000,000 out of employment. You can not go into a State of the United States that you do not find able men and women, ~ompetent people, ready to work. Mr. Green. Yes. Mr. Sumners. Neither can you find employment there, nor would any conscientious person send them anywhere else. I am speaking zenerally. In the country, we find the farms running down; I mean the productivity of agricultural machinery is getting in that shape that the fields are washing away, the houses are without painting, and yet there are painters without jobs. Can there be any solution that the fields are washing away, the houses are without painting, and yet there are painters without jobs. Can there be any solution except, somehow or other, through the means of economic machinery in this country to create greater purchasing power for the average man, so that the average man can buy some of the things that are being produced by mechanical machinery? Mr. GrereN. That 1s the sloution.

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