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According to the Census Bureau, 2% of the total U. S. population was jobless. Mississippi and South Dakota tied for low score with only ½% of their inhabitants unemployed. Joblessness reached its peak in Michigan where 3.3% could not find work. New York, with the largest jobless list (364,617), was 2.9% idle. Computations of unemployment on the basis of total populations have been seriously criticized on the ground that they do not show the true relation between workers and those seeking work. Census estimators unofficially figured that the number of unemployed was 5.2% of the gainful workers-that...
...later he was ousted from control. He immediately formed Chevrolet Company and by May 1916 was able to tell G. M. directors that once again he was in control. Five years later he was forced to tender his resignation. The greatest bull since Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt was broke and jobless...
...same period. Employment for July 1929 was 98.2%; for July 1930, 81.6%. The building trades were still seriously subnormal. Surplus labor was almost everywhere available. Many a factory was closed or closing. In New York City last week a new free municipal employment agency was stormed by 2,000 jobless, who found less than 100 jobs to be doled...
...love of all mankind became concentrated to a particular interest in wandering, jobless workmen. He stubbornly believed that every vagrant could be persuaded to work. Newspapers ridiculed him, exaggerated his wealth, called him the "millionaire hobo." But his mother approved. When she died she willed him a half-million dollars, half in a trust, half to spend on his idealism. He spent all his money on his tramps. He financed the organization of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association, hobo "union." He founded some 60 hobo colleges, several lodging houses. Bums attended meetings and classes for the food he dispensed, ridiculed...
...Woodbury, N. J., Charles Riley, 32, jobless, killed his bride for going to work in a shirt factory...