AMERICA'S IDLE.
TEN PER CENT OF WORKERS
NEW YORK, February 8
The Labour Bureau, a group of statistical research workers connected with the labour unions, announces that it estimates that 4.000,000 persons are unemployed in the United States to-day, or 10 per cent of those profitably employed. The bureau says the situation i« serious, and merits investigation. The figures have 110 official authorisation.
The Governor of New York State, Mr. A. E. Smith, lias arranged to have made an investigation into the unemployed question iu the Stat*. . .
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1928, Page 7
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