EIGHT MILLION UNEMPLOYED
STRESS IH THE UNITED STATES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, January 27. Mr William Green, secretary of the , American Federation of Labour, in a statement asked for Federal relief for the unemployed by funds raised by taxation. Declaring that all other agencies had failed, he said that there were approximately 8,300,000 unemployed on January 1, and the average unemployment in 1932 would probably be between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000. He estimated that it would require between 3,500,000,000 dollars and 5,700,000,000 dollars to feed, clothe, and house the unemployed at a bare subsistence level.
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Evening Star, Issue 21013, 29 January 1932, Page 9
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94EIGHT MILLION UNEMPLOYED Evening Star, Issue 21013, 29 January 1932, Page 9
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