UNEMPLOYMENT CENSUS FIGURE IS CHALLENGED
UNEMPLOYMENT CENSUS FIGURE IS CHALLENGED Unemployment League Says Figure Is at Least Four Million Low NEW YORK — The National Unemployment League, of New York, takes issue with the census figures...
...Unemployment in average years—10 per cent—3,300,000...
...others say since 1921...
...To conclude that averaging good and bad years from 10 per cent to 12 per cent of all workers are idle all of the time is probably an understatement of the situation...
...Accepting the Sage Foundation figures as a basis, it is a matter of simple mathematics to arrive at fairly accurate figures: Unemployment in best years—5 per cent—1,650.000...
...still others, worse than any of which they have record...
...Public officials and social worker* throughout the country who are in a position to know the fact* have stated many times during the past nine months that the present business depression and unemployment situation is the worst they have known since 1921...
...The American Federation of Labor figures on unemployment released for June are 20 per cent—the same as last January, and only 2 per cent below the peak of unemployment in March...
...UNEMPLOYMENT CENSUS FIGURE IS CHALLENGED Unemployment League Says Figure Is at Least Four Million Low NEW YORK — The National Unemployment League, of New York, takes issue with the census figures on unemployment recently released by the Department of Commerce...
...Meserole, "to assume that the unorganized, unskilled, 'white collar' and clerkship groups have a larger percentage of idle in their ranks...
...Meserole naming as his authority for this statement the Sage Foundation publication "Public Employment Offices," In which appears the following statement: "A conservative estimate as to the amount of continuous unemployment, taking it year in and year out over a long period of time, and excluding extraordinary disturbances like war and depressions caused by war, puts the amount at from 5 per cent in good years to upward of 20 per cent in bad years...
...There are 45.000,000 gainfully employed persons in the United States— 33,000.000 non-agricultural workers...
...If this Is the unemployment percentage of the most highly organized workers of the country, is it not fair," asks Mr...
...Darwin J. Meserole, president of the League, points out that the announced number of unemployed in the United States—2,298.558 — is a million lower than the average unemployment for years past, Mr...
...Unemployment in bad years—20 per cent—6,600.000...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 38
