PLAN FOR AMERICA
POST-WAR READJUSTMENT Rec. 9 a.m. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. Jobs may have to' be found for 60,000,000 persons after the war to maintain American standards and expand U.S. economy, said the Secretary of .Labour, Miss Frances Perkins, in her annual report. Miss Perkins suggested the following steps to facilitate the. orderly return of the industrial population to . peacetime conditions: — Firstly, forbidding women and minors to work over eight hours a day; secondly, the elimination of Sunday, holiday, and overtime work; thirdly, the extension of the social security system to all workers, including war veterans; fourthly, the establishment of public works where private employment was not available; fifthly, the encouragement of the purchase of consumers' goods like refrigerators, furniture, automobiles, and vacuum cleaners.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 7, 10 January 1944, Page 3
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124PLAN FOR AMERICA Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 7, 10 January 1944, Page 3
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