Secretary Davis. of the Labor Department. on March 27. 1928. issued a-.statement to the effect that there were 1.874.000 people without jobs iii the United States. An inspection of this statement indicates that there are this many more people without jobs than there were in 1925. therefore it is easily deduced that there must be 4.000.000 of people out of work at this time. He called attention to the fact that a quarter of a million of immigrants had come here in the past 12 months. most of whom were laborers. He estimated that in January of this year the manufacturing plants were working 650.000 less people than in 192.5. The railroads were working 100.000 less people than in 1925.
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