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Show 11,000,000 Unemployed Estimate By Engineers attacked in their survey covering the last 100 years of industrial and ' agricultural development in Ununited Un-united Stales. The five-day week, the l:n-m-struction Finance coi poiation. low cost housing piujeets and simil:ir measures enlisted in the f i:.ht to biinr back pi n.sp.M iiy will h:y- little lit-tle or no effect on the ste:uly growth in the number of va;;o earners displaced by mai liines, tin1 engineers said. which resulted when machines dis- placed men. 1 Programs Wasteful Relief programs during the depression de-pression have been wasteful and uneconomic "failures," the magazine maga-zine said. The government's allotment allot-ment of $300,000,000 for direct un- I employment relief through the states amounts to 12 per person 1 this winter, the remainder to be made up by private and community contributions. "The result," it said, "is a picture of official and unofficial relief agencies struggling under the earnest earn-est and untrained leadership of local men of affairs against an in- r . t ertia of misery, suffering, and want j they are unable to overcome. "The problem never wns honestly honest-ly attacked as a national problem. The facts were never frankly faced as facts." Constructive Policy It said notning the government had proposed constituted a constructive con-structive policy. "Such a policy," it said, "must involve an industrial indus-trial solution a restatement of industrialism in-dustrialism which will treat cheno-logical cheno-logical displacement not as an illness ill-ness to be cured, but as a goal to be achieved and achieved with the widest dispensation of benefits and the least incidental misery." That is the problem the engineers 7 c NEW YORK, Aug. 23 Eleven million wage-earners will be j unemployed this winter, constitut-j constitut-j ing a relief problem Involving the i feeding of 25,000,000 persons, the magazine Fortune said today. Engineers En-gineers predicted that 20,000,000 wage-earners would be jobless within with-in two years. The magazine survey was nationwide, nation-wide, made just as Newton D. Bak er and his committee of national leaders were preparing to coordinate coordin-ate all local welfare and government govern-ment relief problems. The engineers' survey was not concerned with the problem of starving men and women and children, chil-dren, but was the result of 10 years' effort and study of technological unemployment unemployment ? . r. |
