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Show To Banish Unemployment Governor Roosevelt of New York has announced that he will invite the governors of six other eastern states to confer with him on unemployment. unem-ployment. Among the problems he wishes to consider are: The extension of the free public employment bureau system; sys-tem; the development of the technique tech-nique of public works planning so as to spread them throughout the year; the providing of a public fund reserve in good times to be used in bad times; the study of unemployment unemploy-ment insurance in its broa aspects; the standardization of labor and compensationlaws and the standardization stand-ardization of taxes affecting industry. indus-try. To most of these proposals there will be little opposition, and if Mr. Roosevelt's conference can create some means of standardizing taxes cn industry it will achieve a public service of the first importance. The same is true of unemployment insurance and the proposed public relief funds. At their worst they can be very bad indeed as the English Eng-lish dole system has demonstrated. At their best they can serve s. useful purpose. The aim should be to so employ them that they will aid the unfortunate and at the same time add no burden to taxpayers tax-payers and businesses. Unemployment is a social and economic disease that must be cured. cur-ed. So long as millions of men ere unable to find work, industrial leaders and public . officials will have a duty to perform. |