To the Officers and Members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America: Our greatest economic problem is regular and stable employment. To secure it is the assurance of comfort and happiness to millions of men, women and children. Wages sustain not only workers and their families, but also  Full Article…

Our drive for increase in construction and improvement work to take up unemployment is showing most encouraging results, and it looks as if the work undertaken will be larger for 1930 than for 1929. The Department of Commerce now has complete returns from the Governors of 16 states covering public works to be undertaken in  Full Article…

With view to giving strength to the present economic situation and providing for the absorption of any unemployment which might result from the present disturbed conditions, I have asked for collective action of industry in the expansion of construction activities and in stabilization of wages. As I have publicly stated, one of the largest factors  Full Article…