Word: joblessness
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...wage cut to offset increased production costs. Britain pooh-poohed "this phantom of a 40-hour convention" whereas Germany warned that the alternative was government doles for years without end. It was estimated that the world is already spending $120,000,000,000 per year to keep its jobless alive...
...Newark Dorothy Frooks, commander of the Women Veterans of the World War, proposed a civil mobilization of jobless ex-soldiery at government camps for government works...
...default of other candidates, thrice was beaten. None was more surprised than he when on the fourth attempt he won last November. As the first Democratic governor in 16 years, he recommended to the Democratic Legislature a combined sales and gross income tax, old age pensions, direct relief for jobless and a change in the local Dry enforcement law to conform with the November repeal of state constitutional Prohibition. Every year he goes hunting, kills his buck...
Maine. Many a jobless citizen was deprived of voting for Democrat Louis Jefferson Brann last September because...
...observers agree that the U. S. is now undergoing a tremendous socialistic revolution which will leave its imprint on the nation long after the Depression has passed. For example: 1) the R. F. C. which puts public funds to private use for the national welfare; 2) relief which supplies jobless millions with a "dole" not very different in principle from Socialist recommendations; 3) Domestic Allotment which, when enacted, will take money from one class to give to another class; 4) Inland Waterways Corp., a perfect example of government-in-business. Because the War Department ordered the transfer of troops from...