New Britain herald., 1930-04-01
GREEN ESTIMATES
 3,700,O00 WAGE
 BANNERS IN WANT
(Continued From First Page)

l ployment.
 Among industrial measures, Green proposed stabilization, pointing out instances in which it had been ac- complished with cooperaton between workers and industries
 He also urged recognition by in dustries of what he called the vital partnership which wage earners bring to a production undertaking.
 Green endorsed federal employ ment service Ito connect workers wanting jobs with work opportu- nities.'
 Workers out of jobs, he said, have no money to pay fees of private agencies. Workers displaced by tech nological changes need special en- ployment counsel and vocational training opportunities, he added, and there should be job analysis agen- cies to establish job requirements in order to find work which older men can do.
 Would Use Construction Also
 Urging deferred programs for construction of public works, ready to be initiated when needed" Green said that although such a program has been much discussed for years and generally approved, the depres- sion last year came upon us with out provisions for initiating a con- structive program together with the machinery for putting it into oper- ation."
 Labor is fully persuaded" he as- serted, that unemployment 7 can be eliminated as a social and eco homie problem.
 We have organizations necessary to contribute to its solution and are ready to cooperate in working out constructive methods.
 Unemployment is the most ser tious drain on industrial progress and serious social waste" he said
 Green asserted that approximate ly one worker in every four was out Of work" during February, and that unemployment this year was "the most serious we have experienced in the three winters we have collected figures"
 During the past year unemploy. ment has been steadily mounting over the previous year." Green said Since October it has increased from II to 22 per cent, due to business depression. This huge unemploy. iy,t t,,v- {o Lol from the industrial recession of las fall."
 Drop ir Figures Seen
 The total volume of wage pay ments to workers in manufacturing industry. Green said. has dropped 1 n per cent since the stock crash, anc \ payments to railroad employees hav J fallen 12 per cent.
 In building trades, 45 per cent, O approximately one out of every two were unemployed in February. tn witness added, asserting that be y cause of this serious curtailment 0 l. buying power retain trade has failet T.. T. to make its usual spring recovery. " Wholesale buyers and jobber iu ", have been holding off," he added III taking only small lots of goods fo aa. immediate needs, lacking confidenc aao, to order ahead. Manufacturers ar ,J forced to limit production, an N prices are still declining"
 Miss Helen Hall, of Philadelphi; H' who conducted nation wide invest IT. saton of unemployment in the fam :" fly under the auspices of the natior at al federation of settlements, in a pre- 'ie pared statement said: 2" Tn studying the economic make shifts which come with the stoppin ne of the income we found the familie ,s.. following much along the same line pS Tells of Results i' First cash savings arc used u, Ne insurance policies lapse, jewelry an .n clothes are pawned, furniture is sol 0 Then bills at the grocers and possib ,, moves to poorer neighborhoods an ,,. what means most in discourageme IIa to the family, the loss of a hous ,,e partly paid for.
 N N,s 'The last report of the Communi ,,. Fund News of Detroit published ,,, MATCH says pIluS "nOllg JuSlllldDl k. of course, has kept many famili W as from applying for relief until eve1 ,,. other resource has been exhauste Among the 1000 families now beir
 provided with the necessities of Ii
 by the department of public welfar
 are hundreds who withheld their a
 plications until they had lost the V equities in homes they were buyil n on contract"
 'O "All along this line of march Il
 mother is generally working or loo
 ing for work. and the families livil
 on starvation dict. The effects ,o, semi i-starvation on small children |, not apt to be very dissmilar.' -. NnnI lnGE lNnIAnEl