Word: workless
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...hamstringing the meagre success which Pater Baldwin has achieved in dealing with unemployment, ha wrought upon his hearers' feelings by recounting the suicide of a workless former soldier, and concluded: "He is only one of the many men who, during the last few months, have been sacrificed on the altar of the Government, which is far more concerned with the profits made out of industry than with the lives of its own people...
Loafing is now a crime. In three states, West Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey the workless man is no longer tolerated. The movement to suppress idleness has officially begun, and should and will spread over the nation...
...presidents of 50 National Patriotic Organizations, to Cabinet members and other Government officials and to college presidents, says: "At the beginning of our second year in the great war, it is fitting that we have a National consecration to the task remaining before us. Because of numerous workless days during the past winter, it is not advisable that the occasion should be made a holiday, be in every factory, store, mine, school and on every farm there should be a brief period during the day when everyone who is loyal to the flag should stand up and be counted. Flags...