UNEMPLOYMENT
WARNING TO PRESIDENT. (. United Press Association.—By Electric Tel eg r aph. —Copy r ign t. J WASHINGTON, July 3. A memorial presented under the direction of “People’s Lobby” bearing the signatures of 1200 nationally prominent clergymen, sociolglists, writers, economists and Labour leaders, asked, President Hoover to call an', immediate special Congressional session to consider an unemployment relief programme involving requested appropriations of three billion dollars for public works; 250 million dollars for direct relief; and 250 million dollars “for the subvention of State unemployment insurance systems.” The memorandum stated: “To postpone until December the execution, or even the planning, of these and other measures of relief is to ignore human misery, and with one-fifth of our working population unemployed, or so irregularly employed, as to make impossible. a , healthy standard of existence, is to court disorders which may be unprecedented <in our history.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1931, Page 5
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