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Show THE SHARE-THE-WORK MOVEMENT. One of the really sound plans set in motion to create employment is the share-the-work movement, which is gaining momentum in all sections of the country. The movement has three distinct purposes: (1) To check the upward trend of unemployment, when work is reduced for seasonal or other reasons, rea-sons, by employing the greatest possible pos-sible number of workers on a shortened shorten-ed working schedule; (2) To decrease unemployment by a wider spreading of work now available among a larger group of employees working shorter periods; (?.) Whenever an increasing volume of business permits employing employ-ing additional personnel, to do so by distributing the increased work to the greatest possible number, ra her than by working longer schedules. The result of such a movement, if adopted in all branches of industry, would be an immediate and appreciable apprecia-ble increase in the purchases f food, clothing, shelter, and other necessary commodities and services. Millions of person.; would be saved from wnnl and di S.e i A nd, in addition, t ha! p:- yoholoeiral a:, usance which comes, with a fi el'lig of job sec urity, would do much to stimulate the public morale mor-ale and cause iiiT;i:.i spending ,y those1 who How have jobs, tail have been hoarding against, the chance of unemployment. In some indu: 1 1 i'-s hating I h"-work will doul, e s can a certain amount of trouble, spen , e and dislocation. I'ut. it, is . ,i t h it. II, is. an ii apoi'-tant apoi'-tant pha-of a solution of our most pfessini' problem -tri-i:i" and in-tl'ea in-tl'ea ,iug uneinjnoyineiil. |