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CHAPTER XIII. 



THE UNEMPLOYED. 



1. Types. 



a. Tlie earnest searcher for work. 



b. The casual laborer. 



c. The vagrant. 



d. The unemployable. 



2. The present situation regarding employment. 



3. Social significance of being idle. 



a. Creating dependents and delinquents. 



b. Lowering social standards. 



4. Program for reducing the number of the unemployed. 



a. Employment bureaus, city, state and national. Present action of state and 



national government. 



b. Dovetailing industries — thus reducing the number of casual laborers. 



c. Adjusted public works, I'oads, streets, inland waterways, afforestation. 



d. Shortening working day. 



e. Unemployed insurance. (See Social Insurance.) 



f. National farm colonies. 



g. Vocational guidance. 



5. "^Tiat to do with the vagrant. 



a. The wood lot. 



b. The farm colony. 



Field Work. 



1. Among your friends and acquaintances make a list of the number of persons 



that are out of work. 



2. State the reason. 



3. Were they personally responsible? (Purpose to dissipate popular notion that it 



is a man's fault when he is out of a job.) 



4. Inquire at post office the number of persons that have registered for work 



during the past year or since its organization. 



5. Ask at the Associated Charities how much help has been given to needy persons 



during past year. 



6. What means could your city take to prevent vagrancy? 



7. How can the householder lessen the tramp nuisance and yet give the honest man a 



chance to earn a meal? 



8. Inquire among men, your father, pastor, or friends, what the people of the city 



should do to lessen the number of the unemployed. 



References. 



Pupils' Readings. 



Sunset, 34 : 434 — "The Vanishing Soup Kitchen." 



Independent, 81: 385 — Brooks, J. G. "The Challenge of Unemplovment." 



Survey, 33: 348-9 — "Unemployment Problems and Relief Efforts in 17 Cities." 



Ihid., 33: 442 — "Chicago's Plan for Putting Idle Citizens to Work Again." 



Ihid., 34: 52 — Owen, Bess. "Fighting Unemployment and Destitution in Port- 

 land." 



Ihid., 33 : 453 — "Scrambling to Care for the Unemployed." 



Ihid., 31: 638-9— Kcllor, Frances A. "The AVay (3ut of the ITnemployed Situ- 

 ation." 



Ihid., 31 : 541 — Kellor, Frances A. "The Crying Need of Connecting Up the Man 

 With the Job." 



Ihid., 31 : Gll-2 — Kcllor, Frances A. "Organization to Fight Unemployment 

 Effectively." 

 ■ Ihid., 32: 523— Talbott, E. G. "The Armies of the Unemployed in California." 



Outlook, 109: S83-G— Danisou, B. "The One-armed Man Finds a Job." 



