WRITER CITES CHARITIES AS DOLE SYSTEM
Andrews, John B.
WRITER CITES CHARITIES AS DOLE SYSTEM Says Heal Responsibility For Unemployment Lies At Door of U. S. Industry (The following article was written by .lohn B. Andrews, secretary of the American...
...Your paper is both Interesting and instructive—Oliver D. P. Chapin...
...Gentlemen: ¦ We have been operating on a five day week basis for over five years and do not think we would ever consider changing...
...19)—I am enclosing $1.50 for renewal of my subscription to The Progressive...
...Editor's Note...
...Which method will intelligent citizens prefer support in attacking unemployment...
...Verii truly yours...
...Five Day Week Gives Workers Time for Play New Jersey Manufacturer Has Used System For Five Years...
...This, supplemented by private charity, constitutes the American dole system...
...Accident compensation legislation is now almost universally accepted as sound public policy...
...Moreover, the individual worker who can play an important part In accident prevention is particularly helpless in reference to un employment...
...We not only consider it "better than a five and one-half day week, but our employee feel the same as we do...
...carefully prepared legislation aims at unemployment pre^ vention and compensation...
...Legislation to create this plan of cooperation is about to be introduced...
...Other communities throughout the country' are* preparing to give similar doles to their unemployed...
...It ts a pure dole—and it is hot helping to meet the unemployment problem in a constructive way...
...To this end the administration as well as the financial support of the unemployment reserve fund may well be placed largely upon inustry...
...This is in addition to the ordinary charity expenditures through the public welfare department...
...i By John B. Andrews It is announced that the New York City budget contains a special item of one million dollars for next winter's unemployment relief...
...Leadership must be along constructive lines...
...B. W. Ericksrn, Secy, and Treas...
...Thoughtful people now realize that we simply cannot continue to have millions of industrious people periodically thrown upon the streets to bear unaided the crushing burden of involuntary unemployment, and also that industrial management must be stimulated to the more rapid adoption of plans for unemployment prevention...
...The American plan for unemployment prevention and compensation does not copy any foreign model but is a natural outgrowth of successful American experience with accident compensation...
...CONSOLIDATED- FRUIT JAR CO...
...In substantial measure the state and national governments may also cooperate in distributing information...
...Today America has the unemployment dole...
...But after thoughtful consideration this burden was in part shifted from the individual sufferer and the charities to the industry which failed to provide safe working conditions...
...Inability to work because industries fall to provide regular employment like wise creates a social as well as an in dustrial problem...
...But it is industry—to the extent to which it fails to provide regular employment throughout the year — that must be made responsible for compensating its reserve of labor during such periods of enforced idleness...
...WRITER CITES CHARITIES AS DOLE SYSTEM Says Heal Responsibility For Unemployment Lies At Door of U. S. Industry (The following article was written by .lohn B. Andrews, secretary of the American Association for Labor Legislation, and appears In the quarterly review of the Association which was published this week...
...In bearing in more orderly fashion the burden of extended unemployment in cyclical depressions over which the industry has little or no control, and in sharing the costs of administration...
...The neerssity for providing this security for the worker will stimulate more continuous consideration of methods folk stabilizing employment, just as accident compensation has furnished a constant stimulus to safety work...
...Wis., Sept...
...The following letter is from the Consolidated Fruit Jar company of New Brunswick, X. J„ a large manufacturer of canning equipment and drawn and stamped metalwsre.—Editor's Note...
...Under the circumstances, is there any helpful leadership in shout ing, as the opposition to unemployment compensation is doing, that "we do not want the dole in America," when what we now J<Ve is the dole...
...The Charity Dole-Meanwhile, throughout the country, communities are preparing to make a charity dole to the unnumbered thou sands of unemployed for whom there is no work...
...Wouldn't Consider Changing iThe foil ming is another of a series of letters being published in The Progressive from large manufacturing and industrial concerns all over (he country that have adopted the five-day week in their plants...
...Does it get us anywhere to have men loudly proclaim that "American labor wants work not charity" when for unnumbered thousands there is no work and all we have to offer them is charity...
...IS BOTH INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE [Evansville...
...Legislation is necessary to make sure that the industries act with reasonable promptness...
...Society through advance planning of public works and free employment offices can do something...
...It' gives them a da{v off for recreation...
...Is Called Unscientific Twenty years ago individual requiring relief on account of industrial accidents resulting In inability to work were subject to somewhat similar unscientific treatment...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 43
