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a Stitt, Department of Economics, Ohio State University, Columbus,
iio.
Charles R. Blunt, commissioner of labor, Trenton, N. J.
Arthur J. Todd, Welfare Council, City of New York.
Wm. O. Weyforth, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. .
& 3 8 Robinshn, chairman, Department of Economics, Carleton College, North-
€. inn.
F ! E. Wolfe, Economic Research Department, Procter & Gamble Co., Cincin-
nati, Ohio.
Harry H. Willock, Lillian, Ala. .
3. Colum Gilfillan, 5623 Blackstone Avenue, Chicago, Ill.
p Mig Mary P. Wheeler, General Secretary, United Charities of St. Paul, St.
aul, Minn.
George A. Miller, president, Omaha Council of Churches, Omaha, Nebr.
John Lewis Gillin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. . .
. Prof. Eugene M. Kayden, head, Department of Economics, University of the
South, Sewanee, Tenn.
Frederick A. Bushee, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.
Cecil C. North, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. .
E. B. Mittelman, professor of economics, Oregon State College, Corvallis, Oreg.
Charles Wood, 1100 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C.
Percy 8. Straus, 151 West Thirty-fourth Street, New York City.
Henry F. Grady, Leonard Ascher, Paul S. Taylor, Louis T. Morgan, A. R.
Mowbray, Ralph Cassady, jr., University of California, Berkeley, Calif.
Louis N. Robinson, Swarthmore, Pa.
Thorsten Sellin, editor, The Annals, Philadelphia, Pa.
Willard L. Thorp, Department of Economics, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.
v ney Coombs, professor of economies, St. Lawrence University, Canton,
Jane Howarth, Young Women’s Christian Association, Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Paul Douglas, University of Chicago and Swarthmore (Pa.) College.
Sponsoring committee, all of New York: David C. Adie, John B. Andrews,
Paul F. Brissenden, Robert E. Chaddock, Joseph P. Chamberlain, Edward T.
Jevine, John A. Fiteh, Mary B. Gilson, Shelby M. Harrison, Sam A. Lewishon,
Thomas I. Perkinson, Harlow S. Person, Henry R. Seager, Mary van Kleeck,
Lillian D. Wald, Walter M. West, Samuel Joseph, secretary.
I have the pleasure of presenting this to you, and I thank you very
much for the privilege of addressing you.
Senator WaeNEr. Miss Frances Perkins is our next speaker, Mr.
Chairman. So that the Committee may have some idea of the
dpportunities Miss Perkins has had to study this question, I will
state she is now the head of the State industrial department, which
Sin the city of New York, and it is the largest and the most impor-
ant department of our State government. There are some 3,000
‘mployees to carry out the work provided by the labor laws of the
State of New York and the workmen's compensation law.
STATEMENT BY MISS FRANCES PERKINS, INDUSTRIAL COM-
MISSIONER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Miss Perkins. I am one of those unfortunate public officials who
were obliged to face distressed men and women out of work with some
explanation of why it was they could not get work, and what the
Government was contemplating for their relief. Under those cir-
cumstances I have not found they derive much comfort out of the
Sheory of the rights of sovereign States, nor the intricacies of the
sconomic doctrine of laissez faire. Many of us in the State of New
York have held out the hope that the Federal Government and the
State government would find some of the gross solutions for the prob-
lems facing them as individuals. To the man out of work, the prob-
lem of unemplovment is perhaps the greatest he faces, as Mr. Green
