Unbelievable Headline From 1935 Confirms That Nothing Ever Changes In The World
http://www.businessinsider.com/skilled-workmen-in-demand-despite-vast-unemployment-2012-4
"Skilled Workmen In Demand Despite Vast Unemployment"
That was the headline of a Washington Post article (March 13, 1935, p 22). The subhead was, "technological progress has been so rapid during the depression that welders and other experts, idle since 1929, are outmoded." The first paragraph told readers:
"unemployment may run into the millions, but as the iron, steel, and metal-working industries improve, a scarcity of skilled workmen is developing, states the magazine Steel this week."
This shows that technology might change rapidly, but economic reporting at the Washington Post doesn't. Many of the stories it has written in the last two years about shortages of skilled workers in the midst of mass unemployment could have been plagiarized from this 1935 piece.
It is also striking that this piece, like much current economic reporting, relies exclusive on business sources. The article does not make any reference to any independent experts and of course, no one from a union or any workers' organization.
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Pierce-Arrow and driving to Montreal. 
as unemployment is now, it was more than twice as bad at many points during the depression, between twenty and thirty percent. NO ONE could find work other than odd jobs here and there.
And the press was often, frankly, pretty conservative during the first half of the depression, and very pro-business-oriented, much like now. The notion that the unemployed were lazy gits who just didn't want to work and that there were jobs spilling out the gazoo available and ripe for the picking but that people just weren't picking them is by no means unique to our own particular time. Problem for them was that it got harder and harder to sustain all that fiction as the depression ground on and on and people began really turning against business and resenting the conservative orientation of much of the business, power and press class. This was one reason why FDR had such an impact, he was of that class but understood where they were coming from (thanks to Eleanor a lot of the time and, hence, part of the reason for the title of a major biography of him, "Traitor to his Class"
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