The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-22

turning to small farms, others are
just waiting for better times. In the
communities themselves, there has
been little change in prices even
though the businessmen are despon.
dent because clothing, appliances,
and furniture are not maving. Last
month one furniture dealer in the
Ilion-Herkimer area did total of
SIC business in one week. He had
to lay off his one remaining sales
man. All merchants have similarly
curtailed their sales forces since pur-
chases have been so few.
Some of the unemployment has
been due to a certain type of foreign
policy. The Remington-Rand Com
pany has been moving out plants to
Europe and Asia. Those workers
show some resentment to the Foreign
Aid Program. They say American
capital is needed to develop back
ward areas in other parts of the
world; this is an area which needs
developing, why not pour some CAPT
tai in here.
Unemployment Figures
This illustration is not yet typical,
but there is considerable fear that
such areas will grow. Actually, in
the United States today around A.
100000 people are jobless, or about
one-and-a-third million more than
The official Census Bureau figures
estimate. Those Census figures do
lot include people on lay-offs up to
80 days which may become perma-
lent, nor do they include people who
will take new jobs in 80 days They
10 not report people only employed
'art-time or people on the labor
ringe women, young people, and
Id folks who move in and out of
he labor market as economic condi-
ons warrant. But of the people
Tho were employed at the 1913 la S
or peak, around 100000 are today S
Actually in January, t
949, there were also 100000 out t
55,000,000 workers employed less l
ian 40 hours a week, and nine-and- v
half million employed less than 35 t
ours. Only three-fourths of our o
orkers are covered by unemploy- l.
ent insurance, which is paid them a
ON Ia to &c weeks. t.
Recently, Evan Clague, commits h
oner of Labor Statistics in the De- K
of Labor, was reported as a
ying there was no cause for con- Il
I'm unless the jobless rolls were to a
mp to five million and stay there p
yond April. Actually, when there m
e five million unemployed you have
real force for recession already W
Grating. J
Recession Here For Some 81
Because of what has happened to ~
cir buying power, one-fourth of :,
E people in the United States are T. r.,
'eady experiencing a recession. If -,
2 present trend in lay-offs con-
ues with it's subsequent reduction :,
consumer buying and business ex- -
nditure, the unemployment figure -.
the end of 1949 could well reach d.
rem million with their buying pow
cut at least in half. We have
ne a beautiful job of dissipating
record time the tremendous back Gu
of buying power of many of sic
Sc people, built up during the war, me
ich was to keep US rolling for on
rs after. flc
f nothing were done by the fed Sc
| government to pick up result he
fifteen billion dollar income do
X, then we would be in serious wo
lble. We are still in a spotty ter
lure. On one side there are lay SUI
5 in many fields. Yet, on the 9th
er side with steel, metal mining, clu
arge part of automobile produc-
and factories obtaining big gov of
ment contracts still booming and ope
ing away fat profits, no one rule dis;
criterion applies everywhere. Too, eco
I'll prices are dropping slowly, pot
e actually going up. Therefore,
e workers wage increases are dor
justified. we,
Workers Incomes Dropping nat
con Keyserling of the Presidents not
nomic Advisers said here in the,
'hington the other day that while of
1ovaes in 1920 had abo11t ciytv is d