Abstract

Editorials

The article presents an overview of the April 2, 1930 issue of "The Nation." The U.S. unemployment situation is grave. Frances Perkins, Industrial Commissioner for New York, and John B. Andrews, secretary of the American Association for Labor Legislation, testifying before the Senate Committee on Commerce, declare that conditions in New York City are the worst that they have been since 1914, and that they have been growing rapidly worse since October 1929, when distress first appeared. The Family Welfare Association of America, a federation of 234 charity and welfare associations in more than 60 cities, reports an increase of 100 per cent in their expenditures for relief in January, 1930, as compared with those of January, 1929, and an increase of 200 percent in the number of families in distress because of lack of work.