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Counting of returns from unemployment questionnaire gets under way. Washington, D.C., Nov. 24. Tabulation of the returns from the millions of unemployment questionnaires mailed out last week was started today when final instructions were issued by John D. Biggers, Unemployment Census Director, to the hundreds of clerks employed to accomplish the huge task. Left to right: Director John D. Biggers; William L. Austin, Director of the Census; and Frederick A. Gosnell, representing the Lost Census Bureau at the Unemployment Census Tabulating, 11/24/37
Responsible for unemployment census. Washington, D.C., Nov. 24. William L. Austin (left) Director of the U.S. Census Bureau and whose workers are tabulating the returns from the unemployment questionnaires, describes to Unemployment Census Director John D. Biggers the working of the special tabulating machine used to count the unemployed noses. Work of counting the unemployed returns was begun in the Capital today. 11/24/37
Responsible for unemployment census. Washington, D.C., Nov. 24. William L. Austin (left) Director of the U.S. Census Bureau and whose workers are tabulating the returns from the unemployment questionnaires, describes to Unemployment Census Director John D. Biggers the working of the special tabulating machine used to count the unemployed noses. Work of counting the unemployed returns was begun in the Capital today. 112437
Tabulation of unemployment census returns begun in capital. Washington, D.C., Nov. 24. Counting of the returns from the millions of unemployed census questionnaires sent out last week was begun today in a specifically rented warehouse by hundreds of clerks employed for the task. This is a general view of the first floor of the warehouse. 112437
Labor leaders arrive for unemployment census conference. Washington, D.C., Sept. 27. John L. Lewis, Head of the CIO, and A.F. Whitney, President of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, arriving at the White House today to attend the Unemployment Census Conference called by John D. Biggers, Unemployment Census Administrator. Plans for compiling the census were formulated at the meeting which was attended by leading government, business and labor officials. 92737
Will administrate federal unemployment census. Washington, D.C., Sept. 16. John D. Biggers, Toledo, Ohio, glass manufacturing president, leaving the White House today after accepting an appointment from President Roosevelt as Administrator of a Federal Unemployment Census. Biggers revealed that the census probably will be made entirely through the Post Office Department. The administration previously considering utilizing election facilities. Whatever final plan is adopted, the count will be made on the basis of voluntary registration and not a door-to-door canvass, Biggers said. 9/16/3
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Tabulation of unemployment census returns begun in capital. Washington, D.C., Nov. 24. Counting of the returns from the millions of unemployed census questionnaires sent out last week was begun today in a specifically rented warehouse by hundreds of clerks employed for the task. This is a general view of the first floor of the warehouse. 11/24/37
1,500,000 drop in employment, Senate Committee told by government labor statistics chief. Washington, D.C., Jan. 4. Armed with many charts and his head full of figures, Isador Lubin, Chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, today estimated before the Special Senate Committee unemployment, that 1,500,000 persons lost industrial jobs between October 15, 1937 and December 15 of the same year. Mr. Lubin remarked that this decline in unemployment as the sharpest in many years, 1/4/37
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A group of people standing around a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch five.
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)
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No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html