Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arithmetic by the ton constituted the anesthetic "prologue" of the investigation. Dr. Isidor Lubin, the dark, bird-like Commissioner of Labor Statistics, presented a bale of charts to show the growth of U. S. population, industrial production (total and per capita), national income ($432 per capita in the U. S. for 1934-35), employment. Biggest headlines were accorded his estimate that between 1929 and now the country "lost 133 billion dollars of potential income," including 119 billions in workers' wages for 43 million man-years of work...
...billions, reminding everyone that while 10,569,000 U. S. workers were jobless last October, about 6,800,000 of them would have been jobless even if the industrial system had been functioning at its 1929 rate. This was due to the steady growth of the U. S. labor force, which he figured currently at 40,000 per month. "We are at a strategic point in our economy," he said. "If we go on as we are, we are in for stagnation and decline. One of the interesting observations of recent years is the inability of the system to maintain...
...paper sent by Robert J. Watt, American Workers' Delegate to the International Labor Organization, reduced the problem of an overcomplex government to a need for a change in ethics...
...often suspect the loud criticisms of the Roosevelt administration arise from those whose liberty of evasion has been curtailed," the labor leader added...
...technicalities of the situation were discussed at a meeting this evening, which followed an afternoon session of the congress in which experts in government, labor, business administration, and civil service indicated their relation with the problem...