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

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it. nat ral 10t on, ed "ess. 12Y ed tes ng ine nd ve ors do on re st. he m. i- ne ls, 19 AIL Ag 1e IN) qa b= re er 3% AT in UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 83 Assuming, for instance, that here is a town where industry is unionized—— Mr. DovucLas (interposing). And with an agreement? Mr. MicuENER. Let me finish my question. Where the town is unionized, industry is unionized, and here is another section of the country engaged in the same industry, the same line of business, where they are not unionized; now, assuming that there is a lack of employ- ment in the unionized town and there is a surplus of employment in the section of the country which is not unionized, would this permit the taking of those nonunion men from that section of the country and setting them down in the union section and requiring the people to use them? Mr. Doveras. Not requiring to use them, but the employment serv- ice could recommend these men to the employers, then whether the employer would hire the men or not would depend upon his agreement with the union. If he had an agreement with the union providing for the union shop, he would not hire them; if he had no such agreement with the union, then he could hire them. In brief, the employment service merely effectively recruits labor and does not of itself have anything to do with the union shop or the anti-union shop. That is a matter for employers and workers to agree upon or to disagree upon. Now, gentlemen, I am afraid I have taken up more of your time than I should, and unless you have questions I shall stop. Senator Wagner. Thank you very much. The last witness that I will call is Dr. John B. Andrews, who is the Director of the American Association for Labor Legislation, and who has made a particular study of this subiect for some years. STATEMENT OF JOHN B. ANDREWS, DIRECTOR OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR LABOR ILEGISIATION Mr. Axprews. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, it has been three years since I last appeared before your committee. That was in connection with the longshoremen’s compensation legis- lation, which is now working so smoothly that I am encouraged to come back. This afternoon in a very few minutes, because I am anxious that the opposition shall have all the time that they need to present their opposition case, I wish very briefly to recall to you what our problem is here. We are faced with a very serious condition. I am not so much interested in theories as I am in the fact that in this country we have millions of wage earners unemployed. You do not know, I do not know, perhaps within a million how many are unemployed. That in itself is sufficient surely to suggest—— Mr. MonTaGUE . (interposing). What would you give as your approximation of the number? Mr. AnpreEws. I have refused to try to estimate, because I know that no person in this country can know probably within a million how many people are unemployed. What we need is the program of legislation for which we have been working now for 15 years in this country and which every private conference and every public com- mission that goes into the subject of unemployment tells the public we, of course, should adopt as the minimum legislative program. If we adopt these three bills, if we adopt the plan of getting better

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