Wagner urges unemployment relief action.

• Author: Wagner, Robert
• Position: 1930 - Robert Wagner - Brief article

June 14, 1930

It is time we become impatient with inaction. I do not believe that unemployment is inevitable. We have never tried to do anything about it.

The responsibility of the federal government must not be shirked, for the prevention of unemployment is a distinctly national obligation.

Unemployment today is not produced by local causes. The forces which make for the shutdown of factories, the curtailment of activity in the mines and on the railroads, are forces which operate on a national and...