The Archive · 1938

Women Workers Glut

Labour Market

Inquiry Suggested by US.

Industrialist Washington, Oct. 8.

t. John D. Biggers, Director of the Federal Unemployment Census, informed President Roosevelt today that women workers had glutted the labour market and recommended that the Monopoly Investigation Committee study the problem.

In a letter to Mr, Roosevelt containing his resignation, the Toledo industrialist said the November unemployment census disclosed that 2,740,000 more persons—all of them women—entered or became available for employment since 1930-than was expected on the basis of past experience, He transmitted to the President the complete census reports in four bound volumes wi he said "will continue to be of considerable value as a basis from which to project future trends."—United Press.

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