Regularization of Industrial Activity

Archive Report

Federal Efforts to Promote Regularity of Employment

Administration's Desire for Scientific Stabilization

With the upturn in business activity during recent months, President Roosevelt has manifested an increased desire to attain greater regularity of employment by leveling off seasonal peaks in production. Application of this policy throughout American industry, he believes, will contribute both to business efficiency and to social security.

The President's interest in industrial stabilization traces back at least five years—to March, 1930, when, as Governor of New York, he appointed a committee to consider and recommend plans for ironing out seasonal fluctuations in employment in that state. In all recent statements dealing with labor relations, he has mentioned, without stressing, the desirability of more stable industrial operations. Following a conference at the White House with ...

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