Startling facts disclosed in registration of unemployed Registration result work trade unions Lines of unemployed were waiting for registration to get under way Many show marks of much hardship Organized Labor to make powerful drive for shorter hours, higher wages Minneapolis Labor Review, November 28, 1930 excerpts - Startling facts were being disclosed as the registration of the unemployed proceeded Tuesday afternoon. Not the least of these was the fact that a cursory examination of registration cards indicated that those registering had not averaged over three months work during the last year. The cards disclosed some workers had toiled 80 and 98 hours a week when employed for a paltry wage of 25 cents an hour. . . . . . A surprise of the registration was the large number registering in what some choose to consider the better residential districts. In the Van Cleve Park district on the East Side the registration was so heavy that it was felt an added supply of questionnaires would be necessary. . . |
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