Word: joblessness
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...work. Of these it was figured that a million were in transit from one job to another or voluntarily idle and that another 500,000 were in communities of less than 3,000 population where they would be cared for by friends or relatives. The remaining 2,000,000 jobless represented about 800,000 families. The President's view was that this was a serious but not a critical situation...
Manufacturing employment was under the August levels. And just how many jobless there were in the land neither the Department of Labor nor anybody else knew for sure. The U. S. Census Bureau last April counted 2,500,000. The American Federation of Labor estimates 3,000,000 plus. Campaigning Democrats insist there are more than...
...Washington. President Hoover concluded that the Federal Government would have to renew its indirect efforts to help carry the jobless through the winter...
Fisher (General Motors), Walter Percy Chrysler, Alvan Macauley (Packard), Du Bois Young (Hupp), William J. McAneeny (Hudson), Edward S. Evans (Detroit Aircraft); 3) got a promise of 1,000 "rotating" jobs per week from big merchants; 4) rotated 400 jobless per day on municipal construction; 5) used the schools to collect clothes to help the needy...
...Census Bureau fixed Detroit's jobless last April...