POST-WAR PROBLEM
EMPLOYMENT IN AMERICA WASHINGTON. (Rec. 0.15 a.m.) Jan. 8. “Jobs may have to be found for 60,000,000 persons after the war to maintain American standards and expanding 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:— 1. Forbidding women and minors to work over eight hours a day. 2. The elimination of Sunday, holiday. and overtime work. 3. The extension of the social security system to all workers, including war veterans.
4. The establishment of public works where private employment is not available. 5. The encouragement of the purchase of consumer goods like refriegrators, furniture, automobiles, and vacuum cleaners.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25429, 10 January 1944, Page 3
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