Show TO ELIMINATE unemployment by FRANCES PERKINS N X Y state industrial commissioner I 1 ANY significant and successful american industries have eliminated unemployment others can unemployment in the M industrial body is comparable to an infection in the physical body if not checked it will spread as infection does doea and unemployment in one industry soon becomes the cause causa of unemployment and business depression in other industries we must take drastic steps for its ito cure when it is on us but more important still we must initiate the plans and the programs which will prevent it in tile the future there me two phases to a program for action at such bua a time as this one must be directed to immediate relief measures and tile the other to longtime long time timo plan ning for the solution ol of this purely economic trouble of unemployment I 1 attribute the present situation to tho the cumulative effect of three major causes seasonal unemployment technological unemployment caused by the displacement of men by laborsaving labor saving machinery ano and indr increased eased efficiency in production methods and unemployment due to the cyclical business depression regularly recurrent I 1 I 1 in n american economic life and I 1 believe the problem could be solved difficult though it seems in this country we have overcome the child labor problems pro bleim we have cut infant mortality in half we have raised tile the standard of living I 1 0 of f tile the working man to an enormous degree if i we can accomplish those almost impossible things I 1 am sure that we c can a n eliminate that other economic trouble unemployment public officials have been told often in what direction their duties lie it at such a time thile the spead speeding ing up of public works to io offer employment tile the advertisement and expansion of public employment offices so that a complete clearing house may bo be maintained without cost bost between workers and such jobs as there are tho the operative cooperative co advertisement of actual relief giving by municipal and private agencies each industry should carry the cost of its own fluctuations and instability out of a special unemployment reserve fund I 1 also advocate development of tile wago wage earner market by steady work short hours and good pay |