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AMERICA’S WORKLESS
MEMORIAL TO MR HOOVER
WARNING OF DISORDERS.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
WASHINGTON, July 4
The immediate calling of a special session of Congress to consider an unemployment relief programme involving requested appropriations of three billion dollars for public works, 250,000,000 dollars for direct relief, and 250,000,000 dollars “for the subvention of State unemployment insurance systems,” is suggested in a memorial to President Hoover.
The memorial bears the signatures of 1200 -prominent clergymen, sociologists, writers, economists and labour leaders.
“To postpone until December the execution or even planning of these and other measures of relief is to ignore human misery,” the memorial stated. “With a fifth of the working population unemployed or so irregularly employed as to make impossible a healthy standard of existence, disorders which may be unprecedented in our history are being courted.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 183, 6 July 1931, Page 7
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