Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-01
BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN
Contributing Writer

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Contributing Writer
The Labor Department reports
that attenuation is displacing
$4,000 workers each week, or
1920, 900 year.
In addition, our national labor
force grows by $4,000 new workers
each week (net, after retirements
and deaths), which means another
4, 1852 900 new job applicants a
year.
These figures mean that the
American economy must create
3,l72, 900 new jobs each year to
hold unemployment at its present
level Of as million.
Should national policy be to re-
duce unemployment from the
present 6 per cent level to the
normal 2 per cent, we must create
an additional 81 million new jobs.
Hence, we face the immediate
goal of 6,272.000 new jobs this
year to achieve a condition Of
full employment at January 1868.
>. Such is the challenge presented
in the first interim report from
President Kennedy's Gilman Com
oInittee on acknowledgement
Policy, created on February 16,
1861, with Secretary Of Commerce
Hodges and Secretary of Labor
Goldberg as co-chairmen.
The committee is composed Of
leaders in labor. industry, and
scientific economic planning. The
first report is titled THE Benefits
and Problems Incident to Auto
nation and Other archaeological
Advances"
Four additional reports on other
problems of unemployment and
national growth are still in process
within the committee.
In broad outline this summary
indicates that we need a total
of 100 jobs next January for every
100 persons now employed. APP
piled to General Motors, for eX-
ample, this would mean roughly
50,400 additional employees next
year-with the same rate of job
expansion applied evenly in every
phase of the industrial economy
Cities Moy Help
A city of $4,000 population
which today has labor force OF
$4,000 with 6 per cent unemployed
needs 1920 new jobs this year tt
attain full employment for it.
steadily expanding labor force
plus it's new automation unem.
ployed.
Each new Job represents ar
average capital investment o.
$4,000. Hence this city must hav'
a67, $50 900 in new plant. tools
and equipment to attain full EN-
ployment in 1868. (This figure il
over and above routine main
tenance, renewal, and repairs dur
ing the year,.
Perhaps local communities coulC
do more in their own economi
planning If each industrial are
faced it's own problem in thes
more manageable terms min
additional jobs for each 100 per
sons now at work.
- BY thus measuring the task il
precise local terms, each com
emunity might at least focus it
attention and energies upon 1t
own specific problem.
=. Once the local problems wer
thus sharply defined, local solu
tons would begin to suggest them
selves. No national planning boar
ever is going to solve the specifi
problems Of PunXSutawney {
Prairie du Chen.
,.NotionoI GooIs
For the Nation as a unit. v
face a call for l00,350, 000, 900
be invested in 1862 in new plan
tools and equipment to achieN
full employment. Our present
contemplated investment is place
at SOS billion this year. This SUI
gests a shortage Of 2.187.000 ne
jobs at the end of 1862,
measured against the ideal
full employment. That would ind
cate roundly 4 million still I'll
employed next January. again
AS million today.
In short, to attain full er
ployment" by January /, 1868,
would be called upon to increa
planned domestic investment
So billion a month, or 500 mill,
every day.
BY this standard each city
$4,000 population "a of l
cent of the national populatio
would face an increased inve:
~ment of 100000 a day in
dustrial expansion, over and abe
current planned investment
plant, tools, and equipment.
This would call for direct
vestment Of $1.40 per day for evt
worker now gainfully employed