Word: joblessness
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...Last week President Green of the American Federation of Labor estimated that 600,000 workers lost their jobs in June, that the June 30 total of unemployment was 11,023,000, that at the present rate over 13,000,000 will be jobless by January...
Flanked by his Lieutenant Governor, his Attorney General, his Secretary of Revenue, his Secretary of Welfare, the Speaker of the House and four legislative committee chairmen. Governor Gifford Pinchot pleaded his State's desperate condition before the R. F. C. board. Pennsylvania, it was claimed, harbors 1.250,000 jobless on whom some $130,000,000 has been spent locally for relief. The State Government put up $10,000.000 for the county poor districts...
...better luck last week in convincing R. F. C. they needed a helping hand. Ohio's White got $852,662 for four destitute counties. Michigan's Brucker borrowed $1,800,000 for Detroit after showing that the city had raised and spent $36,000,000 on jobless relief in three years...
...shop, gave the proceeds to his wife, joined the Army. He was sent to Camp Funston, Kan. where he was naturalized. Honorably discharged in 1919, he drifted to Chicago, worked as a butcher, seemed unable to hold a steady job. His wife divorced him, kept their small daughter. Long jobless, in June he joined a band of veterans marching to Washington to fuse with the Bonus Expeditionary Force. "I might as well starve there as here," he told his brother. At the capital he was billeted in a Government-owned building on Pennsylvania Avenue. One of thousands, he took part...
...drunk went lurching away bearing only a large oil lamp. A few sang old War songs. Women carried babies in their arms. Huts and lean-tos were set afire, partly by the departing veterans, partly by the soldiers. By midnight Bonus City, once the home of 10,000 jobless hungry men & women, was a field of roaring bonfires. President Hoover could see its fiery glow on the Eastern sky from his White House window. At dawn the place was a charred & blackened ruin. The B. E. F. was gone. Not a shot had been fired by the victorious Army...