U.S.A. HAS NEARLY 4,000,000 WORKLESS.
DANGER OF REVOLUTION UNLESS RELIEF IS GIVEN. (United Press Assn. —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received April 3, 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 2. ~ir William Green, of the American Federation of Labour, testifying bef -e the Senate Committee, estimated t 3 700 000 workers were unemployed February, losing 400,000,000 dollars He red that relief for unemployed e first quarter of 1930 cost nnow,. lollars. He endorsed Sen'agner’s programme for the ex- — of 150,000,000 dollars for a pern Federal unemployment re- ; f - . : iime. Witness intimated that the country ce; 1 with the possibility of a re- . o unless the unemployment situ.ioii was met. He estimated that one worker out of every four in industry \vas idle.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19036, 3 April 1930, Page 1
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