Word: joblessness
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...head of the A. F. of L., Mr. Green well knew the jurisdictional squalls which would toss the organization if the craft policy were changed. Also on him was the heavy pressure of the many little craft union leaders who would be jobless under industrial organization...
...summer of 1934 when jobless men from factory and skyscraper turned to pick out PWA highways or to hoe subsistence gardens, Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service searched for a relationship between a man's occupation and his health. Death proved to be the best indicator of such relationship, providing the following rates, which Dr. Gumming published last week...
...them by an uncle go unemployed John Sims (Tom Keene) and his wife Mary (Karen Morley). Living on sardines and hacking forlornly at the soil with a spade, they are happy to take in a passerby and his family who have been dispossessed. John puts up signs inviting other jobless to join their community-a carpenter, a stone mason, a barber, a violinist, a tailor, an undertaker, an escaped convict. They build shacks, plough the fields using manpower, a motorcycle, decrepit automobiles. When they first behold a seedling they exhibit naïve joy and the carpenter leads them...
They were not a promising group. One was a young man employed part-time as cook in a Coffee Pot. Another was an ex-broker who feared he was going mad. Another was a stranded high-school boy; another, a jobless secretary; another, a young cripple...
...American Federation of Labor announced that 10,300,000 employables were out of work last month. The National Industrial Conference Board computed the jobless last June at 7,934,000. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce fortnight ago charged that exaggerated jobless figures were hurting business morale, set its own estimate at less than 7,000,000. Of these, declared the Chamber's report, 2,000,000 were normally unemployable...