Speech #750064507

But when we stop for a minute and consider the reasons why unemployment rolls have not gone down to the extent we anticipated. or why employment itself has not gone up to the extent that we anticipated. it is not difficult to find the reason. We must remember that even in the days of 1929 we had 1.900.000 people unemployed in this country. We must further remember that during the early part of this century. as the result of immigration policies and other reasons. we had an increase in population. New people were coming into this country. In the 20 years between 1917 and 1937 we have had an extraordinary increase in the number who have come up into the working age.