Show relief muddled who s to blame administrations war on employers seen a as factor president roosevelt repeatedly has declared that the unemployment problem was at the bottom of the continued necessity for huge ex tures for relief let private enterprise absorb the unemployed he says and relief expenditures will be slashed until that takes place sp spending anding will continue the effort of the new deal thus to place the blame for continued emergency conditions on indus try and trade if successful would give the administration some sort of an excuse for the failure of the re covery and relief programs of the last four years expenditures tor for recovery and relief have been about 19 since the depression began yet there are still an esti mated 10 persons anem pled plowed just as there were in the fall of 1933 soon after mr roose velt took office there were 22 persons dependent upon direct lefief or work relief in march 1936 a greater number than were on the relief rolls in the spring of 1935 millions back at work an interesting recent disclosure is that as a matter of fact industry and trade actually have absorbed more than 5 unemployed since 1933 these figures made pub lie by the department of commerce are supported by a public statement by secretary perkins of the labor department miss perkins has said further that an appreciable num ber of manufacturing industries are employing more workers now than they did in 1929 that year it will be remembered was the boom year when employment was at its peak then why the criticism of the employers big and little who have done this the man on the street confused by contradictory statements and statistics of the new deal has been asking the press of the country to explain why the roosevelt adamini puts so many obstacles in the way of private enterprise and at the same time demands that it expand operations and employ more workers attacks on business obstacles created by new deal policies include the 1936 ta tax act which imposes a heavy penalty on businesses which are trying to build up a reserve of savings so that they may expand hire more men and be prepared for a rainy day A sec see ond end obstacle is the government governments s increasing competition with private enterprise including banking real estate and power and light compa nies A third obstacle is the policy of making ma made dework work jobs and wages so attractive that great r umbers of employable men and women refuse to go into jobs that are productive as well as useful A fourth obstacle is the agricultural administration administrations s policy of restrict ing cultivation of millions of acres of good farm land thus throwing hundreds of thousands of farm workers out of jobs the cotton curtailment program alone threw southern workers on relief in num bers estimated at from 1000 1 to 2 persons those are only a few of the new deal influences that are hindering rather than helping re employment reemployment economists point out that the pres ent administration contributes largely to the whole relief emer gency its next step in the circle is to ask congress for more billions where are the 10 no figures have been assembled as to just how much damage is done to private enterprises when they are all apparently included in a contemptuous classification as eco royalists or when they are charged with having forgot ten what the constitution and the flag stand for business men how ever including the little fellows as well as the big ones are asking il if abusing them is a new method ol 01 inducing them to employ more workers after they have already done a pretty good job of it in the face of new deal interference meanwhile the question is being asked daily where are these 10 unemployed after foul four years of experiment and ture of billions for recovery and ie lief the president in his latest fire side chat said he was allocating 2 for a study of the anem problem in the mean while about 2 v N ill be spent in the present fiscal year to tc make work relief jobs and to pro vide other relief |