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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 employment
 statistics.
Since 1923 through its committee on women in industry the National League
of Women Voters has studied the subject of unemployment, emphasizing pariicularly
 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 inlustrial
 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