Word: joblessness
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...loss, while the profit for the whole country has been small." Though one would never suspect it by looking at the funereal unemployment map, some 50,000 more British miners have work now than during the same period a year ago, but some 150,000 miners remain jobless...
Drab as Dreiser was the murder of Marvin Drew. He was a jobless railroad section hand at Ashland, Miss. His wife Pearl, 30, had borne him three children, was great with a fourth. On a hot July evening last year he was asleep in his bed, with his daughter, Dorothy Louise, 7, at his side, when Mrs. Drew entered his room lumberingly, shot him through the heart. Her reasons: drink, other women, gossip...
...intelligent guess. New York State Industrial Commissioner Frances Perkins declared last week that January unemployment in her state was the worst in 15 years, that labor conditions were "very serious." While the U. S. Labor Department insisted that employment would be normal in 90 days, Communists stirred hungry, cold, jobless men and women to demonstrations which required no statisticians to interpret. Last week's samples...
...foreign-blooded, a smartly attired gentleman named Chairman Louis Petrash was presiding over a meeting of the Welfare Committee of the City Council. Before the committee was a letter from the Communist Council of the Unemployed, which demanded immediate relief in money and work for 75,000 jobless Clevelanders...
...Newark, N. J., 400 jobless workers gathered at Headquarters of Trade Unity League (which had published the circulars scattered in Philadelphia's City Hall plaza). There they heard President Hoover described as "the lackey of Wall Street . . . J. P. Morgan's office boy." Police entered, ordered the audience to disperse. Eight men and a girl refused to go, were arrested and arraigned for advocating, by speech, hostility to and destruction of "the government of the U. S., of Newark and New Jersey...