TAX NECESSARY
TO ALLEVIATE DISTRESS
OVER 8,000,000 JOBLESS IN U.S.A
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright,.;
WASHINGTON, January 27
Air William Green, the .President of the American Federation of Labour, in a statement, asked for Federal relief for the unemployed by means of funds raised by taxation. Mr Green declared that all other agencies of relief had failed.
He said that there were approximately .fight million three thousand unemployed in tin’ United States on January Ist. The average amount of unemployment d|uring the. year 1932 would probably be between six and seven million, and it was estimated that it would require between 3,569 and 5,790 million dollars to feed clothe and house unemployed on a bare subsistence level.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1932, Page 5
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117TAX NECESSARY Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1932, Page 5
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