Evening star., 1933-06-28
Jobs DISCUSSED
BY MISS PERKINS
Secretary of Labor Speaks
in National Radio
Forum.

National Radio Forum. Miss France!
Perkins, Secretary of Labor, announced
last night the United States Employ.
ment Service would soon establish sew.
eral regional clearing houses, with f1elc
supervision" in a move to extend aid Il
the various States through the new
Federal job-f1nding machine.
Secretary Perkins address in the
forum. sponsored by The Evening Star
was broadcast from station WRC ovel
a Nationwide network of Nationa
Bro adcasting Co. stations
She asserted that I'VE have the ma
Chinery with which to mobilize work
ers' and that it appeared very likely
call would be made upon it soon
through the needs of the public works
program.
Plan Construction Work.
I'VE are looking to construction work
OF this Sort" she said, "and I think
you can do likewise, as an immediate
aid in the emergency program which
Is now under way under the supervision
of Gen. (Hugh) Johnson"
Miss Perkins praised the gallant fight
made by Senator Wagner of New York
In behalf of the legislation authorizing
the new Federal Employment Service.
This service will organize the labor
market of the whole United States, VI
she said, that people may find oppor-
tunities for work, when such exists, in
the easiest most effective way. Never
has the need for such a system Of pub
lie employment Offices been greater than
In the present situation"
Under the new law, Miss Perkins ex-
planned. the employment Offices of any
individual State would no longer be in
dependent, but would operate as part Of
q network throughout the country.
Federal funds to match State funds
will be provided, she said, for those
States where employment Offices comply
with the standards prescribed.
OF the general business situation,
Miss Perkins said there were definite
signs of improvement, indicating that
the turn has come"
But that might be misleading" she
added, ut Is true that employment.
certain other operations have increased
In the last few months, but you should
remember that they are still long way
from what they were in our days of
prosperity.
In other words, while we can find
encouragement here and there, we must
not for a single minute relax our ef-
forts to fight our way out of what has
been a desperate plight-and still is
for many people. Until the last unem-
ployed man is out of the trenches we
cannot be easy"
She gave reminder that the Federal
Employment Service, under the terms
Of the law. would begin to function
next Saturday.
Greatest Need Of Amity.
Miss Perkins address follows:
The problems we face today are not
the problems of the worker alone, nor
of the employer alone, nor of the
consumer alone. Rather they are the
problems OF each one of us. We must
all. work together If we are to solve
them. Never in our history have we
been faced by condition calling for
greater unity 1t demands q concerted
drive against the forces which have
brought want despair and misery into
80 many homes in the last few years
President Roosevelt has forged the
weapons with which to make this at
tack. The national recovery act fur
nishes them and If We take full ad-
should come out Of this struggle in
the good old-fashioned American way
of victory. I would like to say that
since the recovery program has been
under way there have been definite
signs of improvement indicating that
the turn has come. But that might
be misleading. 1t is true that en-
ployment, pay rolls, building, car load
ings and certain other operations have
increased in the last few months, but
you should remember that they are
In our days of prosperity. In other
words, while we can find encourage
ment here and there, we must not for
q single minute relax our efforts to
fight our way out of what has been
desperate plight-and still is-for many
Of our people Until the last unem-
ployed man is out OF the trenches. we
cannot be easy.
think 1t is perfectly plain to all of
us In Washington, where we are In
position to see the wheels 60 around
and to study reports from all over the
country, that there has emerged from
this depression a real passion for unity
on the part of the American people.
We want to be united In aims and
purposes. Because of this I firmly be-
iieve we will all get together, put our
shoulders to the wheel and jointly
solve our pressing and distressing
problems.
The challenge to all of us is to find
o way to build up the purchasing pow
er of the American people to balance
the producing power of our great engi-
neering systems. It will require unity
to bring this to pass. I think 1t Is
becoming possible in the hearts Of the
people everywhere to make tho "~~1"
fees which are necessary to make us
truly united people. If it IS sand
that the wage which goes to the in
vestor may possibly be less for time
because the wage which goes to the
worker has got TO be greater, so that
purchasing power may be increased
to the ultimate benefit of employe and
employer, I think you hear all over
this country, "Ayei" from people who
have the best interests Of the greater
number Of society as whole, at
heart
Industry has accomplished many
things in the last so years and it will
accomplish many more as the years
60 by if we all Cooperate. There was
a time when it was regarded as al
most essential and meritable that
women should work all night and that
children should be exploited. People
believed that there was only certain
amount of money for wages and that
the poor must be poor.
This has changed, gradually, to be
sure, and today We all agree that
workers must be provided with safety,
safeguards against accident and fire
hazards N factories. stores and work.
shops There is not always 100 per
cent performance on this, but the
principle is accepted There has been
a general adoption of the i6ea :H-t
children should not work. and also OF
the idea that women should bC 49,
sonsb!y protected. More thought is
given TO development in physical and
mental health and to prevention OF
overwork and exploitation.
We are expecting a great many
things Of our industrial organization
We cannot expect to go on without 1t
But in order to keep 1t we must build
up the purchasing power of the people
who work in this country. Our mass
production system has made 1t easy
for us 10 consider as necessities those
things which under a different system
MOULD he rare hirIIries We all rec.