Unemployment in the United States

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Identifikator:: 870662961

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-49543

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Guyot, Yves; Urbano, Rafael

Title:: El comercio y los comerciantes

Place of publication:: Madrid

Publisher:: Jorro

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 557 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Libro X - Los elementos perturbadores del comercio

Collection:: Economics Books

nt- ‘TO sm, ‘nd 1y,. at, by to urt )se he ild wat as me ‘he ile to at rQ- 1st at nd re of N= 10 ol- its ce 18, re no to at iF 1g in [ per at n UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 157 that it is unwilling and unable to cope with the problems of local self government. Allusion was made yesterday, apparently with a view of bolstering up the.idea that we need a Federal employment service, to the Federal employment agency that existed during the World War. That was purely a war measure within the province of the Federal Government so long and only so long as the Federal Government was engaged in 2 war and needed that and other agencies to aid in the prosecution of that war. That agency was successful because at that time there Were many more jobs than there were men to fill them, and the problem at that time was to find employees to fill these vacant posi- tions; not the situation we have to-day, where we have got to put employees in situations that do not exist. And the fact that it was successful during the war is no argument for the continuation in these days of peace of what was properly and legitimately a war activity, And in reverting to the suggestion about answering these unemployed with cold legal arguments, I will say that these men are not sitting on park benches because of cold legal arguments; they are sitting on park benches because there are no jobs, and it has not been suggested by anybody that S. 3060 will create a single job, except for the group of bureaucrats to be centered at Washington to control the activities of State agencies throughout the country and possibly to throw out of employment those persons who already are engaged in the conduct of private employment agencies. [t may be in line with the great economic theory that the only way to solve the employment problem is to fire a certain percentage of those that are now employed, as was suggested here yesterday, and possibly by firing all the employees eventually of those private employment agencies they will create a demand for new commodities that will give employment to those full-time employees that are retained. I mean that is as nearly as I can follow the theory that was Suggested to the committee yesterday. But if the States choose to put private employment agencies out of existence and if the States have that power, that is a matter for the State legislatures and the People of those States to consider, and it is not a policy that should be dictated by a bureaucratic director sitting in the Department of Labor in Washington, attempting to lay down uniform rules and regu- lations that would govern sheep herders in Wyoming and cowboys in Nevada and miners in California. And yet we hear this cry for uniformity. I think, if I might suggest it on the question of uniform- ity, that possibly this present day situation is largely aggravated by the fact that most of the people in the United States have uniformly been engaged in speculation and gambling for the past several years. , Another suggestion that comes as a basis for this sort of legislation 18 the necessity of stimulating the States to do something, and I want to call the attention of the committee to this fact that, like all other artificial stimulation, it creates a disease worse than that which is Sought to be cured. In the maternity act, in the vocational rehabilita~ tion and vocational education acts, what do we find? All of those Acts were put onto the statute books and Federal Government dug Into the pockets of the taxpayers of the country and went into a 50-50 game to stimulate the States, and every year we have repre- Sentatives of the State agencies, that are helping in their communities ‘o spend the Federal money, coming back here to Washington and Saying “We can not carry on unless you give us more stimulation.”

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