UNEMPLOYED IN U.S.A

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 69, 19 September 1932, Page 8

UNEMPLOYED IN U.S.A

ESTIMATE OF RED CROSS

FORECAST OF 25,000,000

Specific instances of the acuteness of ■ the unemployment problem in Canada and the -United States'.were given by Mr. E,. F. Healy, M.P. for Wairau, who returned by the Monowai yesterday after Visiting those two countries.

Mr. Healy said that nearly always when he was interviewed he was asked for details of New-Zealand's 'unemployment policy, and was told frequently that a similar scheme would have to be.adopted in America. A famous firm of ■ agricultural implements makers, whose factory ho visited, was,' in the middle of the lowest season,. employing only 135 hands, as against 8500 in 1929. Another firm engaged in the same business formerly had 42,000 on its pay roll, and had now only a few hundreds, in spite of the fact that it had recently received some foreign orders! A motor-car ..factory which was inspected^ had reduced its output to a third, and it was estimated that out of the 1,500,000 people in Detroit 500,000 were unemployed. In San Francisco there were 53,000 on relief works. "While I was in America," said Mr. Healy, "the Red Cross headquarters issued a statement to the effect that 25,000,000 people would have to be supported during the coming winter."