Employment

We have now underway a reexamination to determine the actual number to be employed through the steadily increasing volume of Federal public works.

I regret that the Government should be absorbed upon such questions as the action of the Power Commission in employment or nonemployment of two subordinate officials at a time when the condition of the country requires every constructive…

These negotiations have been in progress for some weeks, and were undertaken at my suggestion in the hope of effecting the consolidation policies declared by Congress in 1920 and especially at this time as a contribution to the recovery of…

No matter how devised, an increase in taxes in the end falls upon the workers and farmers, or alternatively deprives industry of that much ability to give employment and defeats the very purpose of these schemes.

The only provision we are making is that it will produce employment during the next 6 months, and that is the sole object of relief legislation--not to further schemes that look to a general upbuilding of the Nation beyond our taxing…

Mr. Ralph Ely Stedman may be reinstated to an appropriate position in the classified service without regard to the length of his separation from the service.

The fact that the manufacture of these poppies gives employment to disabled ex-service men, in the hospitals and elsewhere, adds to the worthiness of the cause.

Provided the attention required by such employment does not, in the judgment of the General Manager, interfere with the regular and efficient discharge of the duties of their positions under the railroad

Employment apparently is plentiful.

The conditions under which employment is undertaken in the Postal Service and those under which it is undertaken in business are not altogether alike.

We have not opened all the avenues to livelihood which they are quite as well able to fill, and in certain respects better able to fill, than we are.

No substitute shall hereafter be employed in any Department.

Printers, employed as such.

I am ready to say now, I think it is proper for our military commanders to employ as laborers as many persons of African descent as can be used to advantage.