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Lumber. House rate: $1.50 per 1,000 ft. Senate rate: free. With pitiful tales of 80,000 lumbermen jobless in the northwest, due to Canadian competition, did Chairman Hawley plead for the House rate. Sensing defeat, he offered to compromise at 75? per 1,000 ft. But the House, in a low-tariff mood, would not compromise, voted (250-to-143) for the Senate's freelisting of lumber...
...American Federation of Labor, to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee on the extent of unemployment. Mr. Green is a conservative labor leader not given to dramatic exaggeration. What he said caused Senators to sit up and pay sharp attention. A. F. of L. statistics: 3,700,000 jobless in February; a billion-dollar wage loss since Jan. 1; one worker out of every four looking for a job. Declared Mr. Green...
...When these unemployment situations come along, workers are simply turned adrift. Men should earn money, not have it doled out to them.* But unless employers change their tactics toward the Unions, we shall face either Federal unemployment insurance [i.e. the dole] to care for the jobless or have a revolution on our hands. The country cannot stand these continual shocks. . . . The unions could help . . . but in great industrial centres like Detroit and Toledo large mass production employers seem to hate the A. F. of L. worse than the Communists. When depressions come, they throw their workers on the street...
...York's Democratic Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner. One bill called for a complete monthly collection of employment figures by the Department of Labor to replace the present hit-or-miss system which keeps even the President of the U. S. ignorant as to the number of jobless. The other bill would establish a $150,000,000 public building program which the U. S. on short notice could swing into the breach of any future labor depression. Enactment of these measures was anticipated...
...Britain, keeping tabs through the dole, last week reported its jobless...