ROOSEVELT JOINS IN ADVOCACY OF JOBLESS BENEFITS
Roosevelt joins in advocacy of jobless benefits Orges Unemployment Insurance in Address Before State Labor Convention BUILDING PROGRAM IS URGED BY LABOR BUFFALO. N. Y.—A resolution requesting...
...Count of the waiting millions' Workless, record again...
...Wealth of the wide earth firmly Holding by stress of might...
...N. Y.—A resolution requesting President Hoover to call a special session of Congress for the purpose of appropriating $1,000,000,000 for public construction to relieve unemployment was unanimously passed by the State Federation of Labor convention...
...Vast., the dejected hordes...
...This, in the richest country, Through which the sun makes way Giving abundant plenty And bounteous good for all...
...Old, and the sick, dependent Women and children starve...
...Recklessly disregarding Brotherhood, justice, right...
...By W. Edwin Priest...
...Not to a few is deeded All, by God or man...
...Out of the total proceeds Schemers their fortune carve...
...v WAITING MILLIONS Counting the waiting millions Of unemployed today...
...Burdened, bent down, to fall...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 41
