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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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At the American Federation of Labor's annual convention in San Francisco on Oct. 1, the Executive Council's report demands better living standards, proposes permanent NRA reorganization focused on re-employment and wages, opposes inflation, and holds the government responsible for unemployment.
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Executive Council Makes Annual Report at Opening Labor Convention
ALSO SUGGESTS THAT NRA BE PERMANENT
Final Responsibility for Solving Unemployment Up to Government
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 1. - The American Federation of Labor is urged to advocate a 'new vision of American living standards' in the report of its Executive Council which proposed reorganization of NRA as for a long time rather than for the emergency program.
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'We must have a living standard by which we will use to capacity our industries and the capacity of our man power,' the report said.
The American Federation of Labor began the annual convention today.
The report of the Executive Council further asserted that the original purposes of NRA was 'for re-employment and increased wages,' and should be preserved in the proposed reorganization and codes should be reopened for such changes necessary.
Against Inflation
While viewing with 'alarm and misgiving' the increased public debt, the report declared emphatically against inflation as a method to recovery.
The report charged that 'final responsibility for solving the unemployment problem rests upon the Government.'
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San Francisco, Cal.
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Oct. 1
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The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor presents a report at the annual convention urging advocacy for new American living standards, reorganization of the NRA as a permanent program, preservation of its original purposes for re-employment and increased wages, opposition to inflation, and placing final responsibility for solving unemployment on the government.