Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-20
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Unemployment.

Unemployment.
In connection with worldwide I'M
employment and suggested remedies In
the United States and foreign coun-
tries, the Public Library calls attention
to the following magazine articles and
Government publications available in the
reference room of the main library:
United States.
Business Looks at Unemployment, by j.
H. Barnes. Atlantic Monthly, 148:
23s-247, August, 1881.
AS president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, the author
speaks from q wide knowledge Of bust
ness conditions. Production and en-
ployment could be kept at a constant
level II the balancing were done on the
side Of consumption, and the public, in
stead Of buying what it wanted, were
compelled to take what was given it.
Russia is conducting such an expert
ment on q colossal scale, and 1t Is the
one country over which the shadow of
unemployment has not fallen"
Pharaoh Dreams Again, by S. H.
Slichter. Atlantic Monthly, 148:
248-252, August, 1881.
The author. professor of business
economies in the Graduate School OF
Business Administration at Harvard
says, When we require industry to
bear the costs of insecurity instead of
letting them fall upon the unemployed
themselves, upon their relatives and
upon innumerable grocers, butchers,
landlords and public and private char
table agencies, then industry will be-
come as efficient in finding how to
Keep men at work as it now Is in dis
covering how to displace them"
Manufacturers and the Unemployed, by
J. D. Brown. Current History, ga:
517-520, July, 1881.
y. Douglas Brown, on the staff of
Princeton University, has been a mem
per OF President Hoover's Emergency
committee for Employment. Not since
the depression of 1921 have the rela-
lions between capital and labor faced
50 great q challenge. The war boom
intensined the importance of these re-
laIlons. The abnormal conditions of
1918, 1919 and 1920 resulted in mush-
room growth of industrial programs not
deeply enough rooted to survive the
sharp test OF Of the 1921 depression
with the restriction OF immigration, re-
neWeo prosperity and rapid technolog-
caI progress since 1921, Steadier and
more permanent adjustment between
employer and employee developed. Can
crisis?" 'i4e
Remedies for Unemployment. by A. 2.
Hart. Current History, "a: 737-73s,
ABOUT the present continued hard times
Is that never was there such an i'm
mense amount Of money to be wasted. "
Unemployment-A Challenge to Indus
try, by A. 9. Richie. Current His
tory. "a: 849-S52. September, 1881.
the Governor of Maryland considers
that our prosperity. when it returns,
Will some time be followed by another
period Of industrial depression. and II
is the duty of industry now to put its
mind TO work on ways and means of
relieving the distress of unemployment
when 1t comes again.
The President and Unemployment, by
r. NJ. La Toilette. Nation, 1873: 61-
SO, July Is, 1881.
The United States Senator from
Wisconsin reviews President Hoover's
unemployment policy.
Industry's New Responsibilities. by A.
w. Robertson. Review of Reviews.
"a: 1851, August. 1881.
A message to stockholders of the
Westinghouse Electric & Manufactur-
ing Co. by the chairman of the board
of directors.
Taking the Starch out Of White-collar
Workers, by johnson Haywood.
Worlds Work, 80: $3.50, September,
1881.
I'm ls2o-1e21 It was the Iaborer who
took the, hardest blows, but what of
white collars in the past two years?
There were no figures as to how they
have Jared available. so Worlds Work
conducted its own inquiry into an I'M
precedented situation. Here are the
facts unearthed."
Next Winters Starvation. New Repilb-
lie. 81: 299-301, August S. 1881.
In this editorial Mr.. Allen r. Burns.
executive director of the National Assoc
citation Of Community Chests and Coun-
els, says: EFT is evident that we must
prepare now for major task in social
craftsmanship. Private philan-
thropy cannot possibly raise all the
funds needed to meet the aggregate
demand. The larger percentage Of the
direct relief burden must be met
through municipal and county appro-
priations."
Review Of Reviews, ga 1899, sAu-
gust, 1881.
This article contains a graph of I'M
employment compared with wages and
wholesale prices.
The New Generalissimo for the Forces
OF Relief. Literary Digest, ITO:
81, September S, 1881.
U. 8. Labor Statistics Bureau. Unem-
ployment- benefit plans In the United
States and Unemployment Insllr-
ance in Foreign Countries. HFw.
Un3e. -, 80
A recent valuable Government pub
LEGATION showing relief programs now
IN force in the various countries.
Foreign Countries.
Bitter Lesson of the British Dole. Lit
terary Digest, ITO: Z, September IL,
1881.
Unemployment and the Report Of the
Royal Commission on Unemploy-
ment Insurance. by z. J. p. Benin.
Nineteenth Century, no: 1T, July,
1881.
Canada Plans Dominion Aid to Assure
Unemployment Relief Business
Week, 1898, July is, 1881. (Tech-
nology Division.)
India and Unemployment, by J. w.
Petavel: Spectator, 14e: lol1, June
81, 1891.
Unemployment In Germany. Social
Service Review, 5: 314-315, June,
1881.
New Zealand: Unemployment. Round
Table, 81: 70S-7l2, June, 1881.