Word: joblessness
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Three years ago he set up an auction block and knocked down jobless men to such "bidders" as would offer them employment. Last winter he marched crowds of hoboes into Manhattan churches, alleging that they could find no other shelter, but was eventually restrained from such actions by the police...
What was he going to do about it? Well, he could subsidize industry instead of subsidizing the jobless, which would have the effect of increasing employment. He then catalogued all the forms which subsidies might take: "Either by bounties on production or on export or subsidies of specific contracts or orders mainly for export or subsidies for specially distressed districts, aid in the rates to take the burden off those who manufacture in the district, or a subsidy to bring down freight rates on railways...
...morning. As one result of the Mayor's adventure, the Lodge is to have more "showers" and "better accommodations for the "down-and-outers." The Peters way of roughing it facilitates the winning of appropriations. There is no refusing a man who shares the lot of the jobless and the homeless. A virile chap, the Harvard-slum Mayor. New York Times
...Bolshevists; the 30,000,000 workers of the civilized world want to be shown the way out. The Bolshevists urge a bloody revolution, and some times progress better than the larger number of advocates of steady evolution, because of their better understanding, appreciation and sympathy with the workers. A jobless laborer is easy prey for them; if he is busy, he pays no attention. In Glasgow, where nearly all the shipworkers have irregular jobs there is unbelievable unrest and misery. On the other hand, in Middleboro, England, the radicals can get no converts because the men are happy...