FIGHTING DEPRESSION

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1932, Page 11

FIGHTING DEPRESSION

HOOVER HAS NO PANACEA

TALK TO UNEMPLOYED

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph Copyright. WASHINGTON, 7th January. Fourteen thousand unemployed men, mainly from Pennsylvania, impressively presented to President Hoover a request for immediate relief. To their request the President replied: "Depressions and their result, like war, must be fought continuously upon many fronts, and the fight cannot be won by a single skirmish or panacea." Mr. Hoover asserted that he believed that the Administration was now engaged on the "final campaign against the depression," in which "the Government is spending half a billion dollars a year above normal to give employment. " The unemployed, in appearance and behaviour, were notably unlike the recent Communist gathering. They' marched peaceably, and received compliments from many officials. Before leaving the city the men gathered at the tomb of the Unknown i Soldier.' I

Pennsylvania is one of the greatest States in the American Union, ranking second only to New York in manufactures, which were valued at £1,400,000 in 1925. Its population is over 10,000,000, and it holds the great industrial centres of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The State is by far the most important mineral producing region in the union, its mine products being one-sixth of the total for the United States and almost twice that of any single State. ■