U.S. UNEMPLOYED

Southland Times, Issue 21264, 10 December 1930, Page 7

U.S. UNEMPLOYED

BELIEF MEASURES . - PRESIDENT’S PROPOSALS ATTACKED TAXATION OF RICH URGED lUniUsd Prcts Asan.-By Tetefcraph—Coprrizht) (Rec. 8.0 p.m.) Washington, December 8. Senator Walsh, in a bitter address condemning Mr Hoover’s unemployment relief proposals and exhorting the Democrats to prepare their own programme, demanded that the rich should pay the cost of supplying the workless with jobs. “Soup kitchens and free beds have their place as stop-gaps,” he said, “but what the unemployed want is not the dole. They want the opportunity to work. Those who have incomes of 50,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000 dollars per year have got to meet the expense of this emergency. I call on these men with their fortunes for increased taxes.” He drew attention to speeches by prominent men recently, such as that of Mr Nicholas Murray Butler, which warned of the danger of a social revolution unless the problems of unemployment and depression were solved.