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2 Am. Lab. Legis. Rev. 93 (1912)
Unemployment as a Coming Issue

handle is hein.journals/alablegr2 and id is 93 raw text is: UNEMPLOYMENT AS A COMING ISSUE WILLIAM HARD Member Editorial Staff, Everybody's Magazine, New York. I speak only as a man whose occupation obliges him to be aware of states of public opinion and of growths and changes in those states. I shall not attempt to convey to you, who are much more conversant than I am with the technique of industrial problems, any facts now unknown to you about unemployment. My purpose is very different. It is to indicate (i) that the problem of unem- ployment is rapidly gaining genuine recognition in this country, and (2) that the information which the public will need in legislat- ing about unemployment is far from having been rendered avail- able to it by those organizations, such as the American Association for Labor Legislation, to which the public has a right to look for technical guidance in such matters. In the years 19oo to 1904 there were eight articles on unemploy- ment printed in important American magazines. In the years 1905 to io9 there were sixty-four articles on unemployment printed in important American magazines, and forty of these articles discussed conditions not in Europe but in America itself. The years 191o and 1911 showed a proportionate increase in the volume of maga- zine attention given to this subject. It has emerged from its original concealment in such magazines as Municipal Affairs and the Ameri- can Journal of Sociology into open appearance in the weeklies and monthlies of large general circulation. In fact, one might conclude that unemployment was on the verge, not merely of consideration, but of settlement, when one observes it in the pages of magazines which, although they have no objection to controversial questions, confine themselves usually in their choice of such questions to The Propriety of the Occupation of Egypt by Napoleon, or The Grati- fying Advance Made by Democratic Sentiment in the Court of Frederick the Great, or The Menace of the Monopolies Estab- lished by Queen Elizabeth. Even more important than the increase in the volume of inter- est in unemployment is the shift in the direction of the attitude

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