Show TAX PAYROLLS i PERKINS' PERKINS PLEA Secretary Urges Passage o of Unemployment Insurance ance aiice e Bill W WASHINGTON March 21 P Sec JP-Sec- Sec Secretary ret iry Perkins told a house committee commit tee today y it was vas only fair fait that em em- p help pay i in advance the huge uge eX expenses ern es of caring for people whom the they dismiss often wi without a thou thought though ht as to 0 o their future Advocating Advocat n passage of ef the Wagner Wagner- L Lewis wis unemployment insurance bill Miss Perkins said aid the depres depression on would have caused aused much less tragedy and duress if unemployment reserves re serves had been built up during the 1 In Itt the past she he said it was wa the custom for the lull full risk isk of unemployment y- y ment to be borne by the worker an and the full burden first by the worker and then by the public at large In Ia the tIle future some of this burden must in all fairness fall lall upon the employers to whom the tIle workers ordinarily ord look for jobs and security am and small but Steady purchasing pow power r. r Miss Perkins termed both profitable profitable profit profit-I able and nd fair lair the proposed 5 per cen cent tax on payrolls to be paid by tho thos e who hire ten or more persons persons except agricultural labor domestic servants ls nurses and teachers She said J n would produce approximately a bUlion bil bU- lion dollars a Y year ar and that the vas vast federal expenditures unemployment spent ment relief make this billion doubly necessary |