LABOR: How Many Jobless?

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Secretary Davis's "guess" of 3,000,000 jobless did not jibe well with White House optimism. Therefore, in a joint statement with Secretary Lament, Mr. Davis revised his figures and "guessed" again that current unemployment did not exceed that of last year at this time by more than 1,250,000.

The Senate, not to miss a good political trick itself, began hearings on bills offered by New York's Senator Wagner to create a flexible $50,000,000 public building fund, to establish a large Federal employment service and, most important, to set up fact-finding machinery for the Labor Department to answer the question: how many jobless?