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...many workmen were jobless throughout the land last week not even the President of the U.S. knew. Government officials made guesses on unemployment, colored more by partisan politics than by positive facts. Senators flayed the Department of Labor for its paltry system of gathering labor statistics. The City of Milwaukee opened soup kitchens. Bread lines stretched out in Brooklyn. Manhattan's Bowery swarmed with sullen idle men. Communists staged demonstrations throughout the U.S. as well as abroad (see p. 21). Though these things combined to make the Hoover Administration acutely unemployment-conscious, none of them answered the question: how many...
Last week Secretary of Labor James John Davis had to bear the full brunt of popular feeling over unemployment. Pressed for figures he first estimated that some 3,000,000 are now jobless: "I admit .there is distressing unemployment. . . . Something like 46,000,000 individuals are earning a living in the country and certainly 43,000,000 of them are at work." Then he gave his figures a political twist: "The workers of the country need the passage of the Tariff Act to remove uncertainty. . . . Delays in tariff legislation are more responsible today for creating unemployment than any other factor...
Secretary Davis's "guess" of 3,000,000 jobless did not jibe well with White House optimism. Therefore, in a joint statement with Secretary Lament, Mr. Davis revised his figures and "guessed" again that current unemployment did not exceed that of last year at this time by more than...
...trick itself, began hearings on bills offered by New York's Senator Wagner to create a flexible $50,000,000 public building fund, to establish a large Federal employment service and, most important, to set up fact-finding machinery for the Labor Department to answer the question: how many jobless...
Already getting a name for itself as a crusader, the latest project of Publishers' Service is to find employment for some 1,000 Manhattan newspapermen who are out of work. Most of the jobless journalists are youngsters who have left schools of journalism and small-town papers to come to the Big City and make good. Publishers' Service plans to run loo-word biographies of unemployed writers, publish them with a byline. Should a managing editor need a reporter, he can pick out one of the biographers...