Archive Report
Archive Report
At the conclusion of the President's Conference on Unemployment, called to deal with the emergency situation which developed in the fall of 1921, a Committee on Business Cycles and Unemployment was appointed, with Owen D. Young as chairman, to make an exhaustive study of the whole problem of unemployment and to recommend permanent measures for mitigating the suffering and losses incident to periodic business depressions.
In its final report, submitted two years later, when business was again on the upswing, the Committee strongly emphasized the statement that effective preparation against depression can be made only in time of prosperity. The concluding paragraph of the report reiterated the Committee's conviction that
“unless business men, bankers, and others who are responsible for policies and practices in industry begin ...