Conference of Unemployment

(noun)

Approximately 300 prominent members of industry, banking and the labor movement were called together in September 1921 to work toward solutions to the problem of unemployment.

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Examples of Conference of Unemployment in the following topics:

  • Harding's Policies

    • By the summer of his first year in office, however, an economic recovery began and Harding convened the Conference of Unemployment in 1921, headed by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, that advocated economic stimulation through local work projects and encouraged businesses to apply shared work programs.
    • The combined declines in unemployment and inflation (later known as the Misery Index) were among the sharpest in U.S. history.
    • On February 27, 1922, Harding implemented the first of a series of Radio Conferences headed by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover.
    • Harding subsequently pushed for the establishment of the Bureau of Veterans Affairs, later organized as the Department of Veterans Affairs, the first permanent attempt at answering the needs of those who served the nation in times of war.
    • Cohen of New Orleans, Louisiana, whom he named comptroller of customs.

  • The Tehran Meeting

    • The Tehran Conference was the first of the World War II conferences held between all of the "Big Three" Allied leaders, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
    • Although all three of the leaders arrived with differing objectives, the main outcome of the Tehran conference was the commitment to the opening of a second front against Nazi Germany by the Western Allies.
    • A separate protocol signed at the conference pledged the Big Three's recognition of Iran's independence.
    • After the conference, it was agreed that military leaders of the three countries would meet together often, for further discussion.
    • Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill on the portico of the Russian Embassy during the Tehran Conference.

  • War Aims and Strategy

    • Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, known as the "Big Three," developed a plan of action for Allies in a series of informal meetings and official conferences.
    • The final major conference took place after the formal defeat of Nazi Germany  and after Roosevelt's death.
    • The goals of the conference also included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of the war.
    • The Conference decided on the post-war fate of Indochina, Poland, and Germany.
    • Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of China (left), Roosevelt (middle), and Winston Churchill (right) at the Cairo Conference in December of 1943.

  • Continuing Hardships

    • The Recession of 1937–1938 saw a reversal of some of the progress that had been made and the persistence of economic hardship for many.
    • Unemployment jumped from 14.3% in 1937 to 19.0% in 1938.
    • After eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started [...] and an enormous debt to boot!
    • " Indeed, the unemployment rate for 1939 was higher than the unemployment rate for 1931, but lower than in 1932.
    • This chart shows the rise in unemployment in the late 1930's, after years of decline.

  • Calls for a Stronger Constitution

    • This meeting, which came to be known as the Mount Vernon Conference, preceded the Annapolis Convention of 1786 and was a precursor of the 1787 Philadelphia Convention that saw the drafting of the US Constitution.
    • The conference was attended by Samuel Chase, Daniel of St.
    • The conference was largely a success and essentially created a model for interstate cooperation.
    • The conference was significant as a model of interstate cooperation outside of the framework of the relatively weak Articles of Confederation.
    • Examine the significance of the Mount Vernon Conference in shaping the American political structure

  • Reaction to the Holocaust

    • The Évian Conference was convened at the initiative of U.S.
    • The Bermuda Conference led to no change in policy; the Americans would not change their immigration quotas to accept the refugees, and the British would not alter its immigration policy to permit them to enter Palestine.
    • The failure of the Bermuda Conference prompted U.S.
    • Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, the only Jewish member of Roosevelt's cabinet, to publish a white paper titled "Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government to the Murder of the Jews. " This led to the creation of a new agency, the War Refugee Board.
    • Discuss the relative failure of the Evian Conference, the Bermuda Conferences, and Ickes' Alaska plan in finding a solution to the high number of Jewish refugees during World War II.

  • Attempts at Disarmament

    • The Washington Naval Conference, also called the Washington Arms Conference or the Washington Disarmament Conference, was a military conference called by President Warren G.
    • It was signed by all of the attendees to the Washington Naval Conference.
    • The World Disarmament Conference was an effort by member states of the League of Nations, together with the U.S. and the Soviet Union, to actualize the ideology of disarmament.
    • A one-year moratorium on the expansion of armaments, later extended by a few months, was proposed at the start of the conference.
    • Summarize the treaties resulting from the Washington Naval Conference, the Spirit of Locarno, and the World Disarmament Conference and reasons for their ultimate failure.

  • Women of the Civil Rights Movement

    • In 1952, Daisy Bates was elected president of the Arkansas Conference of NAACP branches.
    • She became President of the Arkansas Conference of NAACP Branches in 1952 at the age of 38.
    • Dorothy Irene Height was an American administrator, educator, and civil rights and women's rights activist specifically focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness.
    • In March of 1965, Liuzzo, then a housewife and mother of 5 with a history of local activism, heeded the call of Martin Luther King, Jr. and traveled from Detroit, Michigan to Selma, Alabama in the wake of the Bloody Sunday attempt at marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
    • Height was the president of the National Council of Negro Women from 1957-1997.

  • Yalta and the Postwar World

    • Convened in 1945, the Yalta Conference brought together Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to discuss the postwar reorganization of Europe.
    • The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference, was held February 4–11, 1945 in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea.
    • It was one of the three major wartime meetings of Allies Powers, together with the Tehran Conference in 1943 and the Potsdam Conference in July/August 1945.
    • The Yalta Conference was led by the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D.
    • Analyze the controversies of the Yalta Conference, and the individual agendas of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

  • Setbacks for Unions

    • They emerged with large memberships, full treasuries and a temporary government guarantee of the right of collective bargaining. 
    • Harding and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover convened a White House conference with manufacturers and unions to reduce the length of the 12-hour work day in a move to support the cause of labor, and the steel industry followed by reducing the 12-hour work day to eight hours.
    • Unemployment rarely dipped below 5% in the 1920s, and few workers feared real wage losses.
    • Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) died in 1924 after serving as its president for 37 years, while successor William Green, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, "lacked the aggressiveness and the imagination of the AFL's first president."
    • There was, however, a resurgence of labor support in the textile industry, notably in the Loray Mill strike of 1929.