Word: joblessness
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...Mack Avenue plant of Detroit's Briggs Manufacturing Co., last week, 50 police dispersed an angry crowd of 3,000 jobless Communist-led demonstrators. Casualties: four policemen, three rioters buffeted...
...Last week funds for Detroit's municipal "dole" were practically exhausted. Its poor and jobless were advised "to go East and get a job." The city would pay their...
Bivouacked in shelters at Anacostia Park, in vacant stores, in charity institutions, some 2,500 jobless War veterans announced last week that they would stay in Washington "until 1945 if necessary" to get an immediate cash settlement of the bonus.* While most of the B. E. F. ("Bonus Expeditionary Force") eked out a meagre existence from day to day on Mulligan stews and coffee, their leaders began to lobby. By the end of the week 145 Congressmen (the requisite number) had signed a petition to force a House vote on the Patman bill for immediate Bonus cashing. June...
...minutes three days later, tried to persuade his old patron not to admit the Fascists to a share in the Government until after the Lausanne conference in June. Meanwhile, the Chancellor planned a new legislative program to break up big Junkers' estates to provide homes for the jobless and to increase taxes by another emergency decree...
...help produce its wealth." Recommendations: A planned industrial economy, shortened labor hours, abolition of child labor, introduction of unemployment, accident and disability insurance, the turning of public income from armament building to "productive employment enriching the com mon life." A committee of three bishops was named to urge immediate jobless relief on President Hoover. ¶Condemnation of gambling "from the crap game in a slum alley to speculation on the Stock Exchange." Recommendation: more vigorous enforcement of gambling laws...