Word: joblessness
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...campaign for private contributions to local charity to sustain the needy, stressed "individual initiative," "community responsibility." But for every 50˘ thus voluntarily contributed, governments? city, county. State ? are spending $1 in tax money to relieve mass distress. If a "dole" consists of public support of the needy, countless jobless are already on a "dole...
Iron Rations. Among the first witnesses to testify were welfare workers from the nation's three greatest cities. They painted a doleful picture. Executive Secretary William Hodson of the Welfare Council of New York said that at least 800,000 were jobless in New York and that throughout the U. S. "the spectre of starvation faces millions of people." Executive Director J. Prentice Murphy of Philadelphia's Children's Bureau testified that 970.000 were out of work in his city, that people in some States would get no relief unless it came from the Federal Government. Executive Director Samuel...
Liquidation of the firm will be easy, since inventories are low. Some 400 employees will be jobless. Mr. MacVeagh, prominent in many a charitable and civic affair, hinted he may devote his time to writing...
...would be brought to Washington in 1,144 trucks, 92 automobiles. They would be lodged and fed along the way. They would have medical attention. They would defend themselves with stones. They would be organized in military fashion. They would petition the President and Congress for relief for the jobless. They would make trouble. Only one thing in their plans did Chief Moran fail to ascertain and that was where the money was coming from to finance such a large undertaking. As usual, Moscow was publicly suspected...
...resident unemployment situation." Twelve hundred recruits swell the ranks of the idle each day in California. Not all can be assisted by the state, and the problem is to find a sensible basis of classification. Accordingly, the state is to establish rock-piles along the eastern frontier, where the jobless can go to work splitting stones; and labor-camps in the interior, where the unemployed can earn food and shelter by cutting fire trails...