AMERICA'S WORKLESS.
THREE MILLION PERSONS
NOT A LAND OF PROSPERITY.
(Australian Press Association —United Service.) SPRINGFIELD (Illinois), Sept. 3. The Secretary of the American Federation of Labour. Mr Frank Morrison, addressing a Labour Day demonstration, stated: “We should not toast of our country as a land of Serity and opportunity with iyment a* its present stage.” Using the estimates of the United States Labour Department, Mr Morrison placed the unemployment at present at three million persons. “This means fifteen million persons, or approximately an eighth of the population, not continually assured of food and shelter. Such conditions offer a fertile field for discontent based on despair,” added Mr Morrison.
The unemployment situation was intensified by the increased use of machinery. . . The “machine, electricity, and science were sweeping workers into the streets.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 238, 5 September 1928, Page 7
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