UNEMPLOYMENT
PERSONS IN U.S.A. BELOW MINIMUM STANDARDS(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, November 21. “We estimate that the depression has dragged 40,000,000 persons in America below minimum standards for health and efficiency, including workers and those dependent upon them,” said Mr William Green, president of the American Federation of Labour, in a warning statement on the unemployment crisis and the lack of adequate emergency relief preparation for the coming winter.
“This is a disaster unequalled bv any catastrophe our country has yet passed through,-even the World. War. We have seen the degenerating effects of the World War on our national life. The effects of the present disaster will be more sweeping. “A deciade or a generation cannot wipe them away. They will last as scars on millions of personalities. Starvation, illness, the moral evils of unemployment are eating away the very fibre of our national being.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1932, Page 5
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