LABOR: Jobless

Lamentable is the lack of reliable statistics on U. S. unemployment. Only ten states gather local figures for compilation by the U. S. Labor Department. Not until the 1930 Census is taken in April can the true picture of labor conditions throughout the land be revealed. When President Hoover happily announced last month that U. S. employment had at last turned upward following the stockmarket crash, it was at best an intelligent guess. New York State Industrial Commissioner Frances Perkins declared last week that January unemployment in her state was the worst in...

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