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...Among others present were Owen D. Young, George Fisher Baker, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Charles Hayden, Charles Edwin Mitchell, Myron Charles Taylor. They organized a citizens committee, made Harvey Dow Gibson, president of Manufacturers Trust Co. chairman, set out to raise $10,000,000 to give semi-public work to jobless married men. ¶ Describing the recently reorganized U. S. Employment Service as an "ineffective set-up," Fred I. Jones resigned last week as its director general, having held the post ten years. ¶ Bishop Francis J. McConnell, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, urged...
This year President Hoover did not wait until late autumn before preparing for a hard winter. In June he inaugurated his moratorium plan as a world business stimulant. This he followed up by requesting all Community Chests, through their national organization, to survey joblessness, determine well in advance the "load of distress" they would have to meet. As before, he summoned Big Business to the White House for advice and comfort. Said he reassuringly: "The problem of Unemployment and Relief, whatever it may be, will be met." Before him loomed the A. F. of L.'s prediction...
...Census, taken in April 1930, reported 2,508,151 jobless...
...Employment Service "by combing the highways and byways has succeeded in finding jobs for 281,769 unemployed." Next the President called in Julius Barnes, board chairman and Silas Strawn, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce to see what that organization could offer in the way of jobless relief. Anxiously discussed was the probability that a Federal dole would have serious Congressional backing. Declared Mr. Strawn as he emerged: "It would be deplorable if this country ever voted a dole. When we do that, we've hit the toboggan as a nation...
...thus automatically relieve unemployment. When winter came he was roundly flayed for inaction. This summer the President has been informed by his experts that, even if good times should return with an unexpected rush before snow flies, next winter will bring far more hunger, cold and want among the jobless than last. Therefore last week President Hoover began to bestir himself to see what could be done before winter comes...