Baltimore last week sent policemen to every family in the city to learn exactly how many wage earners, but not "tramps, beggars, gamblers, thieves," lacked employment. It is the first survey of its kind ever made by a U. S. municipality, according to Ethelbert Stewart, commissioner of labor statistics at Washington.
In New York State 20,000 people were laid off from work during January, said Commissioner James A. Hamilton of the state labor department. Unemployment was worse than at any time since the depression of 1921.
The Labor Bureau...
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