RECOVERY: 2,000,000 Jobs

When the NRA's Blue Eagle campaign was launched in July, Recovery Adminis- trator Johnson optimistically declared its objective to be the re-employment of 6,000,000 jobless by Labor Day. August brought its difficulties. Last week as Labor Day came and went, General Johnson ventured his first estimate of NRA re-employment. It was 2.000.000.

The American Federation of Labor announced that 11.500.000 were still without work. It estimated that General Johnson's efforts had upped national buying power by $5,000,000,000 per year.

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