Unemployment in the United States

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Identifikator:: 1828236179

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-226169

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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 Prof. Paul Douglas, of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.

Collection:: Economics Books

R2 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES Mr. Montague. For a song, too. Mr. Doucras. But no one defends the credit mobilier, I take it. Mr. CerLEr. Is not the answer to Judge Summers’s question that the States would be placed under the general supervision of Federal authority, that the State need not come into this system if it does not wish to, as was stated in the case of Massachusetts versus Mellon, that you have cited, reported in Two hundred and sixty-second United States, page 482 of that opinion, which I quote as follows: Nor does the statute require the States to do or to yield anything. If Congress enacted it with the ulterior purpose of tempting them to yield, that purpose may be effectively frustrated by the simple expedient of not yielding. } In the last analysis the complaint of the plaintiff States is brought to the naked contention that Congress has usurped the reserved powers of the several States by the mere enactment of the statute, though nothing has been done and nothing igs to be done without their concent. Mr. Dougras. Yes. _ Mr. Cerrer. So if the State does not wish to yield they do not come in. Mr. Doucras. Yes. Now, there are two more final points and then I am done. Namely, no employer is compelled to cooperate with the employment service. He does not have to get his workers from the employment service; he can have nothing whatsoever to do with the employment service, and if he wishes to have an antiunion policy, maintain black lists, and so forth, he can do that in the future Just as he has done in the past, or as some have done in the past. There is no obligation upon him to cooperate with the service. If he is suspicious he does not have to take any worker that is sent to him. Mr. MontaGUE. The bill does not touch that question. Mr. Doucras. No. I do not think this bill would foster illegiti- mate unionization in the slightest, and I brought this thing out in the open because I have felt that it was in the back of people’s minds, and it was important to get it ventilated. Mr. MicaeneEr. What do you mean by “illegitimate unionization ’’? Mr. Doucras. Unionization fostered by the Government, men being sent in by the employment service for the purpose of unionizing a plant. That is no function of an employment service at all. The employment service is to furnish men, union or nonunion, and no employment service can succeed, can even get to first base, unless it is founded on the principle of neutrality. Mr. MicaeNER. Then you believe that if this service was estab- lished in a State, and there is a town, for instance, where they are unionized, the employment service would bring in from some other section of the country men who were not unionized, because they happened to be out of work in that section of the country. Mr. Doucras. Now then, suppose those—— Mr. MicHENER (interposing). Wait a minute. Will vou just answer that question? Mr. Doveras. But let us get it defined first. Mr. MicaENER. Answer it first and then explain. Mr. Douceras. How can I answer a question unless we have it defined? Mr. Micaener. Well then, wait, I will state it again, then you can answer it and then you may explain.

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