UNEMPLOYED IN USA.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1937, Page 9

UNEMPLOYED IN USA.

VOLUNTAEt CENSUS

ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE JOBS

WASHINGTON, ■ N6V6ffibet 18.

President Roosevelt, in a radio '-fireside" talk, urged citiieris to Contribute to a permanent cure for unemployment by registering in.4 yeluritry census of those but of wbifk jWtiich starts on $116*. 4a y ;,. ■• ;-■.,:"• •■ V- -.■ ■;.:■■;■■

The President indicated that first'of all the! Administration. will carry Out as far as possible its'pledge to prevent starvation due to lack of aid; secondly, that the Government will attempt to stimulate private industry sufficiently to reabsbfb the. idle; and thirdly, that a long-rahle programme embracing these objectives will be launched after the cbmpilatibn 6f the, census data. "Unemployment is one of the bitter and galling problems at present afflicting mankind," he saul "It dates in a measure frofli the beginning Of th& ifldustriai era, is accefituat«a ty the incfeasint- empimy :■<& Jusineil a»a industry, «id Has been sharpened By the depression. It is th§ problem df every civilised nation, hot ours alone. Some countries are sdlvinf it by huge armament programmes, but American* do not want to solve it like that. A permanent cure is bftly possible bjr finding-jobs..in:.industry,..ana asficylture fbr all willing \y6rkets. First, however, we must possess all'the Available facts." .' "•.-■' ' ■ Observers tfoint out that the number of unemployed has been bitterly disputed since the start Of the depre-ssion, estimates varying widely, fbt example, the American; fedefatk.fi 6f.L4bbur at present elaimr that the total of Unemployed is *,000,000, which is increasing owing to the lagging of business. The most receht Administration eitimat* is only 2,000,000, but it was made before the present business recession. Lack of dtfinite data Concerning unemployment has been bns of the chief weapons used against th* Administration. --■■-■■ ■■.-.•■■■-