This bill proposes, as I have said, to destroy the Federal Employment Service in the Department of Labor, which has developed out of many years of experience, and to substitute for...
It is not only changing horses while crossing a stream but the other horse would not arrive for many months.
It applies its energies to interstate movements, and, being a mobile service, it concentrates upon the areas in need.
The fundamental questions involved also require more consideration.
I most cordially congratulate you upon your ninetieth birthday anniversary, but yet more do I congratulate our country upon the continuance ...
On the other hand, the existing Federal Employment Service is today finding places of employment for men and women at the rate of 1,300,000 ...
There is no financial loss to labor in allowing this bill to lapse.
I have repeatedly urged a proper extension of public employment agencies, but this bill, unfortunately, abolishes the whole of the present w...
In any event, the bill required effective action by the legislatures and Governors of the various States at a minimum time requiring so long...
I have given earnest study to the so-called Wagner bill for improvement of public employment agencies, in an effort to find a method to make...
I find upon study, however, that if I would prevent a serious blow to labor during this crisis, I should not approve the bill.