New Britain herald., 1930-07-15

bUtUUU,UVU total lnhd DltantS VIII Dc classified as persons able to work accustomed to work, and who were unable to find work on the day be- fore a census taker visited them."
 The Census Bureau, it is stated has not been adversely affected by the criticism which followed it's first report, which included a quarter ol the inhabitants of the United States "ACCumulating returns in the bu- reau continue to indicate that over the country as a whole, the unem- ployed represent about two per cent of the total population; since but onethird of the total population i: subject regularly to classification as being .gainfully employed-children the aged, students. the leisure class and the bulk of adult women occu, pied as housewives ., !. . e, the findings of the Government are thar about six per cent Of the working population is jobless'
 Those are the Government find, ings. Now what is one 10 do vher they do not jibe with popular con- captions of the unem mployed IL is ( condition where nobody can prove anything. And it must be remember cd that even six per cent is consid, erable.
 If we reckon the total adult work ing population at 40,oOO, 000-whicr would be approximately one-third Of the entire population Of l20, ,oo0,. G0o-and apply six per cent as job less, We would have 2,4OO.OOO unem- ployed throughout the country.
 II the total number of adults is not one-third of the entire popula- ton, but is one-t fourth, we would have 50,00O,Qoo wage earners; ano six per cent of these would provide only 1.S00,0o unemployed
 No estimate Of the unemployed, tc our knowledge, has gone beyond 4 GOO, ,o0o; and the latter figures are generally discredited, It would ap- pear. then, that the Government : figures are approximately correct
 But there arises the question, what constitutes unemployment :. The Government, in taking it's cen sus, did not accept part-time work CTS as among the unemployed. An individual although employed only two days a week. vas classified as employed. Yet from practical standpoint such 2 person might not be earning enough 10 pay his rent.
 In industrial centers It IS found that large numbers are on part time, but these did not count as "unem- ploycd by the Census Bureau. Also, it must not be overlooked, that in purely industrial centers unem ploy- ment would be much more evident than in sections of the country where there are not many factories, , yet economic condJions in such sections, though not based upon factory unemployment might be just as severe as in industrial cen ters
 According 70 gentleman from New Britain who attended a national convention last week, which vas attended by delegates from all over the Union, the prevailing opin- ion was that New England was well! of, although in it's industrial towns and cities there were many unem- ployed These delegates were of the opinion that in the grain growing states and other western agricultural communities, where the products Of the soil were selling for less than the cost Of production, economical con- 3, t,, dustrial section, though the agricul- tural states might register less di- rect unemployment.
 This is a free country. and mo- body need agree with the Govern ments census that only about Six per cent of uage-vorkers are job less; it is possible for anyone to claim the uncmploye total 4o or 50 per cent, for that matter. But the difficulty IS 10 prove it. The Govern ment's bureau happens to be the only one that has taken census 0, the situation and, like it's census of the populations of cities, regard less of the dissa tisfaction engender- cd, nobody seems to be in 8 position to prove that the figures are lying. It is impossible to argue successfully with the Census Bureau, as Ne" Britain, Hartford, New Haven, ct al. figures were announced.
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