Word: joblessness
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...Capitol steps at Washington last week tramped a delegation of 150 jobless under Communist leadership. Quietly they marched past police guards into the House corridors to petition Speaker Longworth for Unemployment insurance. He would not see them. Some of them straggled up into the House gallery. From that vantage point one Fred Kearns of Pittsburgh arose, began to shout: "I protest! I protest against the arrest of -." Over his wide-open mouth was clapped the hand of Chief Doorkeeper Bert Kennedy. Angry cries from the House floor: "Throw him out! Shut him up!" Two policemen ejected him while other Reds...
Late one afternoon jobless demonstrators stormed into the Minnesota House of Representatives at St. Paul, took possession of the chamber after the speaker had declared a 30-minute recess. For two hours Red orators bellowed and inveighed from the rostrum against the legislators, demanded Unemployment relief. "Chair warmers! Yellow fakers!" screamed an 18-year-old girl at House members who tolerantly cheered her gusto. During the chamber demonstration, 50 Reds slipped down to the basement, entered the Capitol restaurant, gorged themselves on baked apples and crackers...
...estimated that 30% of veterans needed financial help?10% jobless, 10% drought victims, 10% with diminished incomes. Said he: "The Government might advance to those in need a substantial percentage of the face value of their certificates. . . . The relief thus afforded should be real and not fanciful. . . . The amount of such payments would probably be not less than $300,000,000 and not more than $500,000,000. ... A diversion of funds in that amount would be wholly justified to meet this appealing need. ... In any event, I would make an effort to see that, so far as is humanly...
...hated to see so great a chunk of political capital being passed to a Democrat. Actually Mr. Young had proposed nothing new or original. The idea of upping Bonus loans was advocated last month by Director Hines of the Veterans' Bureau as the "least undesirable" plan for aiding the jobless ex-soldiery. Chairman Johnson of the House Veterans' Committee had suggested much the same thing months prior to Director Hines. But because Owen D. Young is Owen D. Young, a man of great personal and financial prestige, credit for the Bonus loan idea continued to accrue...
...cash in circulation was unsound economics inasmuch as it was unknown if and how the money would be spent. They also warned that the extra burden of the payment in taxes and depressed prices, particularly with the Government facing a deficit, would fall hardest of all on Veteran Jim Jobless. While the argument went on, domestic bond-prices dropped about $12 and Government 4½s dropped $27 per $1,000 bond. Agitators for the cash Bonus cried: "Manipulation!" Bankers, really worried, looked glum...