Unemployment insurance was strongly advocated by Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, one of the pioneers in the movement, in an address at the Jewish Center, 131 West Eighty-sixth street.
“We Americans,” she said, “would be derelict in our duties if we did not remember that unemployment is not an unusual phase in our industrial life. We must protect the unemployed when times of depression come upon them through no fault of their own.”
With intervention of President Roosevelt and cooperation of the governors of a number of states, Mrs. Kohut expressed the hope that “the United States, through Congress, will in the coming session recommend a plan to be adopted by all States.”
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