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We can see only duplication of effort, additional expense and increasing friction 
a5 the result of the passage of such a bill. We do believe that the Government 
can use facilities already existing to get information regarding conditions and to 
secure cooperation between States and for that reason believe there may be some 
value to the other two Wagner bills which the Senate has already passed. But we 
can see only harm from bill S. 3060 as far as South Dakota and its interests are 
concerned. 
Very truly yours, 
Mary A. MILLER, Secretary. 
NaTionaL LEAGUE oF WoMEN VOTERS, 
June 12, 1930. 
Hon. Georae S. GraHAM, 
Chairman House Committee on Judiciary, Washington, D. C. 
Dear MR. Grauam: The National League of Women Voters wishes to record 
its support of S. 3061 providing for the collection and report of monthly employ- 
ment statistics. 
Since 1923 through its committee on women in industry the National League 
of Women Voters has studied the subject of unemployment, emphasizing par- 
iicularly measures of unemployment prevention. It is obvious that any program 
for intelligent dealing with unemployment must start with adequate information 
loncerning the extent of the evil. The league is on record by convention action 
n support of the “Collection of adequate employment statistics’ as a necessary 
art of any comprehensive scheme for stabilizing employment. The need for 
uch statistics has been strikingly illustrated by the crisis which has developed in 
he unemployment situation of recent months. 
Although the league is not specifically authorized by its program to support the 
eorganization of the Federal employment service as provided for in S. 3060, its 
rogram does provide for support of ‘“ Adequate appropriation for the United 
jtates Employment Service’ and in so far as S. 3060 does this we wish to express 
nur interest in it. 
This item is one which has been studied and supported by the League of 
Nomen Voters as early as February, 1920. When the league was officially 
organized in that year the following recommendation was adopted by the 
lonvention: 
“We recommend to Congress and the Federal Government: The establishment 
of a joint Federal and State emplovment service with women’s departments under 
the direction of technically qualified women.” 
In the nine succeeding conventions the league has reaffirmed its support of the 
Pegpint Employment Service. We therefore wish to record our friendly interest 
nS. 3060. 
Respectfully yours, 
FRANCES ANDERSON 
(Mrs. RoscoE ANDERSON), 
Acting President. 
The Saturday Evening Post, February 16, 1920] 
UNEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS 
By Kenneth Coolbaugh 
America’s industrial resurgence since the decade's dawn holds no promise 
hore heartening than the changed attitude of its leaders toward unemployment. 
Formerly they gave their sympathy and money to lightening its effect upon 
thers. To-day, in addition, they are giving a concern, constant and intent, to 
inemployment’s effect upon themselves. 
At my elbow rests a sheaf of letters. A bank of towering resources prefaces 
A round dozen questions with the phrase: ‘Because of the implications it has 
‘or general business, we are very much interested in the employment situation 
1 the present time.” An automobile finance corporation—48 offices grace its 
etterhead—requests periodic reports on the employment trend in a score of in- 
lustrial fields that bloom within a trolley fare of my office. A steamship com- 
Jany of time-honored lineage, prodded by its New York office, asks for data, 
Statistics, and general information from time to time on the extent of unemploy- 
Ment in industrial and near-by farming communities. A tire and rubber com- 
Pany incloses a questionnaire. Approximate percentages, numbers unemployed