UNEMPLOYMENT IN AMERICA

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XX, Issue 6794, 19 December 1922, Page 2

UNEMPLOYMENT IN AMERICA

SECRETARY OF LABOUR SUGGESTS REMEDY.

TWO TR ADES EUR WORKERS

United jeervras: Telegrams

(Received 10.30 a.m.i WASHINGTON, Dccombcr IS. The Secretary for Eibonr (Mr J. J. Davis) in his annuail report to Oongrcss give s it a 8 hi s o])iniou that the unemployed crisis periodically afflicting the l.nitod States of America is not so much due to the actual dearth of employment as to the inability of American ■Workmen to adjust themscs'vos to the changing circumstances, and turn to other linos when their own trade is slack. Mr Davig think* the remedy is that every workman should learn a secondary trade. Th c report urges that more attention should bo given to the Federal Employment Service', which last year found employment for LoOO'.OOO persons.