Never once did it argue unemployment benefits such as here provided would be unnecessary because we would have no unemployment. No. on the contrary. it argued that unemployment benefits should not be liberal because men would prefer to loaf. The Providence Journal argued 7436" that the workingmen of Rhode Islandthe sons and grandsons of the immigrants our built our State. our cities. our mills and factoriesyes. and the fabulous fortunes that were the fruit of their toilthat these men are bums and would not work if they could get $30 a week. Do not pass this legislation. this Journal said. because the workingman is lazy. The home he is struggling to pay for should be taken from him.
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Working men, sons and grandsons of immigrants, are lazy and would not work if they could get $30 a week.